The Sixth Workshop on Designing an Eel Data Call (WKEELDATA6) worked to design a data call to all countries having natural production of European eel and prepared their integration in the eel database supporting the work of the Joint EIFAAC/ICES/GFCM Working Group on Eels (WGEEL). The 2025 data call will request data to support WGEEL work; to achieve this aim, the workshop worked to:
- Update templates that will be used to report data (usual data supporting WGEEL work) to the ICES and text for the 2025 Eel Data Call, following WGEEL recommendations;
- Develop/Update the tools in the WGEEL shiny application and possibly in the database, required to automate the generation of data call sheets and to manage data integration;
- Prepare data call to address data needs for the benchmark stock rolling issue;
- Prepare for the development of data base referentials for DATSU/TAF framework together with ICES Data Centre;
- Develop, with the ICES Data Centre, the roadmap to achieve the data call publication beginning of April and the data integration during the WGEEL meeting (part one):
- List the necessary tasks to finalise the data call preparation
- List and prioritise the developments needed in the shiny application
