Dr. Josianne G. Støttrup is a Senior Research Scientist at the Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Department of Marine Ecology and Aquaculture.

After some 9 years working with live feeds and marine fish larval rearing, she began in 1992 working on coastal fish ecology and became responsible for the Marine Coastal Fisheries Management Programme.

The scientific focus of her work is on impacts of human activities on coastal ecosystems with regards to coastal fish habitats. This has included work on habitat restoration to compensate for loss of hard bottom habitat due to stone fishing or through mussel dredging. This work is in cooperation with local recreational fishermen and the local county. Another example is work to examine the impact of shore nourishment on coastal juvenile flatfish and more recently a study to estimate the impact of cormorants on the development of the coastal juvenile flatfish populations. She has initiated work towards mapping coastal fish habitats around Danmark and also a large national project with local recreational fishermen to create a database with information on coastal fish assemblages all around the country.

She also provides advice to the Directorate for Food, Fisheries and AgriBusiness on the impact of various human activities (apart from fisheries) that may impact coastal systems.

She is a member of the ICES Advisory Committee on the Marine Environment and has since 1999 been very active within ICES to promote and introduce ICZM. She has thus chaired a Theme Session and a two-year Study Group on the subject and now chairs the ICES Working Group on Integrated Coastal Zone Management.

She is in the Executive Coordination Board of a recently funded larger EU project on ICZM; SPICOSA, about to start in the beginning of 2007.