Executive summary

Green growth means fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our well-being relies. The OECD green growth strategy sets out a five-step roadmap to establish sustainable pro-growth reforms. This begins with preparing the way for change, removing barriers to reform, establishing a new policy set and finally by measuring results and taking stock. Following this roadmap means that policies for the fisheries and aquaculture sectors must be more systematic in identifying risk, using market-based instruments and building accountable institutions. It also calls for a more expansive process, involving a broad reach of communities dependent on the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. This will, inter alia, require investing in better data and science to support managing a more complex system while building networks to ensure policy coherence and inclusiveness.