What Europe can learn from

New Zealand’s experience of engaging stakeholders

in fisheries research & managementSteven MackinsonGAP2 Coordinator

• Involve all stakeholders in knowledge-sharing, decision-making and management.• Ensure coordination, consultation and cooperation, including joint decision-making,

between fisheries and other sectors • Recognize that management objectives are a matter of societal choice • Decentralize decision and action to the lowest appropriate level

Ecosystem approach = Inclusive governance

On the other side of the world in NZ

New New ZealandZealand

Involving stakeholders in research and management has improved the

sustainability of NZ fisheries

1. Fishery Planning

2. Evidence review

3. Providers of Research