As ACOM Vice-Chair Dorleta oversees advisory processes focusing on fishing opportunities advice, mixed fisheries and fisheries management strategy evaluation. She also contributes to further integration of fisheries advice into ecosystem-based management advice.
Her main scientific areas of interest are stock assessment and management, fleet dynamic modelling and mixed fisheries advice, bio-economic modelling, management strategy evaluation, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, and statistical data analysis. She has been actively involved in ICES working groups for more than 15 years as stock coordinator and contributing to the development of mixed fisheries advice framework, among others.
As an ACOM Vice-Chair, Simon helps to oversee and develop advisory processes focusing on ecosystem services and effects, and ecosystem-based management.
Joanne Morgan, ACOM Vice-Chair
Joanne is one of the ACOM Vice-Chairs overseeing advisory processes focusing on fishing opportunities advice, and the benchmark process, as well as contributing to further integration of fisheries advice into ecosystem-based management advice.
She has 30 years of experience as a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, including stock assessment and provision of advice on groundfish stocks nationally (Canada) and internationally (Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization [NAFO]). Her research focus is on the ecology and productivity of fish populations, which will give much needed background as ICES continues to move towards an ecosystem approach. She has a long history of involvement with ICES including many years on ACOM.
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Marie-Julie Roux, ACOM Vice-Chair
As ACOM Vice-chair, Marie-Julie has a responsibility to oversee the delivery and further development of ecosystem, fisheries and aquaculture overviews, bycatch advisory processes, and viewpoints, as well as to guide further advancement of ICES knowledge for ecosystem-based management.
Marie-Julie has extensive experience in the development and application of knowledge co-creation and ecosystem approaches to formulate scientific advice for marine resources management. She has conducted research across scales from artisanal indigenous fisheries in Canada's Arctic, to high seas fisheries in the South Atlantic and South Pacific. Her research interests and activities focus on the effective translation of ecosystem, societal, and climate change considerations in science advice for adaptive management. She has been actively involved in ICES advisory processes since returning to Canada from New Zealand in 2018.
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Nationally nominated ACOM members
Els Torreele, Belgium
Els is the Head of the Fisheries Biology research group at the Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO) in Ostend, Belgium. She is responsible for the coordination and implementation of the Belgian Data Collection Framework (DCF). One of the main tasks of her research group is the coordination, organization and implementation of the data collection on biological and socio-economic data, fisheries dependent & independent data, including the recreational fisheries and bycatch. Outcomes of her research are intended to support advice on fisheries management and on ecosystem-based management.
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Robyn Forrest, Canada
Robyn Forrest is a Research Scientist at the Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO, Pacific Region). Her work supports implementation of Canada's Sustainable Fisheries Framework and operationalization of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management (EAFM), especially for Pacific groundfish and pelagic species. Besides leading stock assessments for Pacific groundfish stocks, her research interests include management strategy evaluation (MSE) for testing performance of reference points under changing productivity, data-limited assessment methods, behaviour of fishing fleets in mixed-stock fisheries, and methods for pairing Indigenous Knowledge Systems with western science to support more inclusive fisheries management and Canada's commitments to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
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Vanessa Trijoulet, Denmark
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Robert Aps, Estonia
Robert is a Senior Research Fellow in ecology at the Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu. He is also acting as the head of Marine Systems Department at the institute. He is supervising the systems theoretic approach based sustainability science developments by focusing on the interactions between natural and social systems, and how those interactions affect the challenge of sustainability. This transdisciplinary research incorporates the processes, methodologies, knowledge and goals of stakeholders from science, industry and politics and is contributing to science-policy interfaces and social processes where the exchange between scientists, decision makers and stakeholders takes place.
Robert was the Estonian Delegate to ICES Council in 1998–2018 and, since 2019, the Estonian representative to ACOM.
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Youen Vermard, France
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Jari Raitaniemi, Finland
Jari is a Senior Scientist at the Natural Research Institute of Finland (Luke). His main research interests include pelagic (mostly herring) and coastal fish species in the northernmost Baltic Sea (mainly the Finnish coast and nearby sea areas) with emphasis on economically valuable species or those that have potential to be economically valuable. His research also focuses on the methods and validity of fish age determination.
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Christopher Zimmermann, Germany
Christopher is the head of the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries in Rostock, Germany. Thünen is a Federal Research Institute dealing with rural areas, forestry and fisheries. Chris is specifically interested in innovative approaches to fisheries management and the communication of scientific advice to stakeholders and a wider public. His background is in ecophysiology of fishes of Polar Seas, acoustic surveys and assessment of pelagic fish. He is also one of the German Delegates to ICES.
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Bjarki Thor Elvarsson, Iceland
Bjarki is a senior scientist at the Demersal Division of the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Iceland. Currently he is the project manager of the advisory process within the institute and is reponsible for presenting the advice to stakeholders. Bjarki's research focuses mainly on quantitative population modeling and development of assessment tools.
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Jonathan White, Ireland
Based in Galway on the west coast of Ireland, Jonathan manages the Integrated Advice Section of Fisheries Ecosystems Advisory Services at the Marine Institute. He undertakes an oversight role of fish-stock assessments and related activities within the institute and translation into science advice for management.
Jonathan's interests focus on understanding and assessing the status of natural aquatic resources, with expertise in aquatic ecology, statistics, stock assessment and translation of science into objective resource management. Before demersal fisheries, he worked on Atlantic salmon stock assessments, marine habitat mapping, oceanography, and data management, initially working on lake and river ecology.
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Linas Ložys, Lithuania
Linas is the Head of Laboratory of Fish Ecology at the Nature Research Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. The laboratory is the premier research group with expertise on marine and coastal freshwater as well as inland fish communities in Lithuania. The laboratory is involved in research and monitoring to fulfil Lithuania's obligations regarding species and habitat protection in accordance with EU directives or other international conventions. It also provides scientific advice for sustainable exploitation and management of fish stocks. Arising from intensive development of various industries and economic activities that affect aquatic ecosystems, the laboratory assesses their impacts and development plans for mitigating the effects on fish stocks, as well as facilitating the recovery of already affected stocks.
Linas' research focuses, among other fish species, on European eel, percid fish population dynamics, and their behavioral and physiological responses to changing environment.
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Thomas Brunel, the Netherlands
Thomas is a senior fisheries scientist at Wageningen Marine Research, with expertise in stock assessment and management strategy evaluation. He is active in various areas for the world (ICES, CECAF, GFCM, IOTC). He also has a keen interest in understanding the combined influences of environmental factors and commercial fishing on the productivity of fish stocks and their resilience, applying various data analysis and modelling approaches.
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Bjarte Bogstad, Norway
Bjarte is senior scientist at the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway where he works in the Demersal Fish section, and has been the Norwegian member to ACOM since 2019.
His scientific work focuses on stock assessment and trophic interactions including diet studies, and his research has focused on the main fish stocks in the Barents Sea, in particular cod and capelin. He has previously chaired ICES Arctic Fisheries Working Group and co-chaired the Working Group on Multispecies Assessment Methods. He also provides advice to Norwegian authorities on fisheries management and takes part in negotiations on annual fisheries agreements between Norway and other countries.
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Jan Horobwy, Poland
Jan is the head of the Department of Fishery Resources at National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Gdynia, Poland. The role of the department is to provide scientific basis for rational exploitation of fishery resources and to provide advice on fish stock management. Jan's research interests focus on ecological modelling, quantitative population dynamics including multispecies interactions, fish stocks assessment and management, and interactions of fish and parasites. Recently he has been working on biological reference points related to MSY, taking into account environmental influences and data-limited situations.
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Ivone Figueiredo, Portugal
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Francisco Velasco, Spain
Francisco is a Senior Researcher at the Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO) in Santander, Spain. He is currently the Chief Scientist in the programme on the assessment of fishery resources in ICES Area, coordinating the team of IEO scientists working on these matters. He has been a member of ICES International Bottom Trawl Survey Working Group (IBTSWG) since 2002 and is lead scientist on the Spanish bottom trawl surveys in the Northeastern Atlantic, northern Iberian shelf and Porcupine surveys. He has worked on fish trophic relationships of demersal fish, marine ecology, deep fisheries, and biodiversity conservation.
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Massimiliano Cardinale, Sweden
Masimiliano has extensive experience in marine fisheries stock assessment and management and international cooperation in the fisheries ecology sector with more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of fisheries biology and ecology and the management of fisheries at national regional and global levels. He is currently Associate Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), and he has more than 120 publications on international journals, including books, on numerous aspects of fisheries ecology as stock assessment, modelling and analysis of historical data but also bird migration ecology and ecophysiology.
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Coby Needle, United Kingdom
Trained as a mathematician, Coby has worked since 1997 as a stock assessment scientist at the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen (now part of the Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government), and is currently the Chief Fisheries Advisor for Scotland. His work through his career has focussed on demersal and pelagic fish stock assessment in the North Sea and West of Scotland, fleet and population dynamics, management strategy evaluation, stock assessment methods and education, and the application of CCTV and REM technologies in fishery data collection. One of the longest serving members of the WG on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the North Sea and Skagerrak (WGNSSK), he was previously the chair of that group as well as the Methods WG (WGMG). He holds an honorary lectureship at the University of Aberdeen, and he teaches (with ICES colleagues) the ICES Introduction to Stock Assessment course.
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Scott Large, USA
Scott leads the Ecosystem Dynamics and Assessment Branch at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA-Fisheries). His research group aims to incorporate climate change and ecosystem considerations into the fish advice process - including single-species models, risk assessments, ecosystem threshold analyses, and full end-to-end ecosystem models. Prior to his time at NOAA-Fisheries, Scott was a Professional Officer with ICES Advice Department and focused on Fishery Overviews and North Sea stocks.
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