This publication gives the research agenda of the programme ‘FEMMES’ financed by the 5th Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission. This has been done to raise the needs of research about the place of women in the fishing and aquaculture sector. This agenda is directed towards decision-makers for research policy at all levels, local, national and European. The agenda items are listed under five themes: Women in economic activities, legal recognition of informal women’s participation in economic activities, women and collective action, women’s role in the social reproduction of coastal communities and their cultures and theoretical and methodological approaches.