The purpose of this report is to present a review and an evaluation of thestrategy of integrated fish monitoring included in the Swedish national marinemonitoring programme. As a background to the review an assessment is madeof some of the long-term changes observed in monitoring.The project is financed by the Environment Protection Agency (Contract no.212 0326) and the Faculty of Science, Göteborg University. The project leader isProf. Åke Larsson. Dr Olof Sandström, Skärgårdsutveckling SKUTAB AB, is contractedas external reviewer of the programme. Subproject leaders and participantsin the programme have contributed with results and comments on thepaper.