Fisheries and aquaculture are part of a complex system with underlying
relationships between species and other activities. This calls for more
integrated assessment, leaving a management based on stock assessment
and single species. The ecosystem approach for fisheries management
(EAF) as well as the more recent ecosystem approach to aquaculture...
System approach is increasingly recommended as a logical framework for
expert advising in support of integrated coastal zone management (ICZM).
The System Approach Framework proposed by the SPICOSA project
(Science and policy integration for coastal system assessment) aims at
building integrated models, which seek to represent the ecological,
economic and...