This document reports the activities carried out during the first year of the InDAM project "Indicators for Sustainable Development of Aquaculture and Guidelines for their Use in the Mediterranean." The methodology applied for the identification of the preliminary list of indicators was based on the Principles, Criteria and Indicators approach and took into consideration the main outcomes and achievements of the recent projects carried out in the Mediterranean in this field. The document also reports the results of various workshops held in France and in Tunisia in 2009; it describes two pilot studies in Turkey and Tunisia, and includes a series of documents gathered and produced by experts involved in InDAM activities.