While ICES provides single-stock advice for over 200 stocks, only a handful of these use tagging data in the assessment. Yet tagging has occurred within institutions and organizations across the ICES area for over 100 years. With the advent of electronic tagging (e.g. data-storage, acoustic, satellite), the practice has been used to more deeply understand behavioural ecology – not just of commercial species but also of species of conservation concern. However, the lack of a standardized approach to the prioritization of species, tagging methods, and data storage hampers the utility of tagging data within ICES assessments and advice.
This session brings together tagging experts, stock assessment scientists, conservationists, and anyone with an interest in sharing best practices in tagging, data management, and methods for integrating tagging data into assessments. It considers the following topics:
- Mark–recapture tagging programmes and methods
- Electronic tagging programmes and methods
- Ethical consideration in tagging
- Integration of tagging data in assessment models
