in particular participants underlined the need to engage stakeholders through fisheries comanagement processes and to develop synergies between ssf and other related sectors such as tourism and recreational fisheries as such the need to develop indicators to measure the economic and social impact of ssf both in quantitative and qualitative terms was highlighted including the impact of ssf on coastal communities and the interaction between ssf and other marine industries transportation tourism oil and gas etc the need for a characterization of ssf was also discussed and was highlighted in the context of improving ssf data collection participants also called for a study on social protection programmes for smallscale fishers recognizing the importance of these programmes in supporting management measures in addition best practice guidelines for the enforcement of ssf comanagement schemes in the mediterranean and the black sea should be produced