“…This places social, ecological, and economic knowledge and data at the heart of MSP. Knowledge does not only need to be gathered, but also made accessible to and usable by actors with different backgrounds such as researchers or scientists from various fields, decision-makers, planners, stakeholders, and the wider public, so that it can inform the decision-making process and support different needs of MSP (Cormier et al, 2017;Quinio et al, 2023). Knowledge exchange across disciplines and institutions, and integration in decision making, remains a significant challenge, though it is not a challenge unique to the marine context nor to recent times (Bednarek et al, 2018).…”