ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes the state-of-the-art in simulation-based techniques for fisheries management science and attempts to place it in the context of the wider fisheries system. The science-policy interface is where scientists, their models and managers meet. This meeting has its own contexts: social, economic, political and scientific. The human subsystem in the fishery system has traditionally been the system least connected to fisheries science and, ironically, it is the human system that fisheries management strives to control. Stakeholder inclusion and dialogue in management science for fisheries has been commonplace and part of management strategy evaluation and management procedure protocols for a long time. However, in Europe stakeholder processes did not concurrently gain prominent recognition in fisheries management. A more holistic approach to the problem of management within the fishery system should also include meta-issues of management science for fisheries.
