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Long term management plans and the ecosystem approach in the North Sea |
Aim
To work with the NSRAC in gaining the knowledge required to support the development of long term management plans based on an ecosystem approach. The work will focus on the North Sea mixed demersal fisheries for cod, haddock and whiting and use ecosystem models to identify and examine the ecological and management trade-offs of alternative plausible management approaches identified by the NSRAC. Through the use of management strategy evaluation procedures, the exercise will contribute to a decision analysis process and yield scientific and policy relevant outcomes. An important challenge will be distilling the information (and uncertainties) from complex models into a readily communicable form.