Work Package 4: Related disciplines

One of the priorities identified by MariFish Partners was to take stock of the wide range of existing research which is relevant to fisheries, but outside the main focus of traditional fisheries research.

Of all possible disciplines, socio-economic research was considered to be the highest priority topic and this was investigated in more detail. A database containing almost 1000 titles, some with full texts, was created and made publicly available at http://www3.lei.wur.nl/marifish. A technical report was produced that summarised approximately 200 research papers, explaining their relevance to fisheries management. A study on the linkages between fisheries and other research subjects has been undertaken and the findings are included within the socio-economic report described above.

A meeting between the leading socio-economics research institutes was arranged to examine the socio-economic report and improve the dialogue between policy-makers and economics researchers. Read the full report.

A summary of the future priorities for economic research was drafted by the core work package participants. The summary formed the basis of a workshop held during the Work Package Management Group meeting in April 2007, in which the wide range of views on the subject were highlighted. The discussions from the workshop and the final summary of priorities document were combined into one report which was used when considering the strategic collaborative research projects under work package 8.

• D4.1 & 3 Socio-economic research and other related disciplines combined report (PDF, 1.23 MB)
• D4.4 Future priorities workshop report