The idea for how we prioritize our work is that the type of science endeavour we do is targeted at answering specific questions or management objectives. The easy example, with which we're all familiar, is fish stock assessment. We know that, on a regular basis, we have to reassess the health of the stock and provide scientific evidence for the management to articulate a proposition. That is what I mean.
It's not that we derive everything we do from a specific decision. Generally speaking, it's the sum of our monitoring and research endeavours that gets integrated into specific science advice or peer review. That's the basic end goal of most of our science activities.