Theme sessions
Climate change, sustainable aquaculture, AI, marine ecosystems, management, and more: Take a look at the ASC 2026 theme sessions.
The Call for Abstracts is open.
Deadline for submission: 25 February 2026
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Participatory modelling, why do it, how to do it, and with whom?
Conveners
Maria Pierce (Germany)
Benjamin Planque (Norway)
Claire Macher (France)
| Integrating ecosystem aspects with single-species fisheries management advice
Conveners
Marta M. Rufino (Portugal)
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(Co-sponsored by PICES)
From turbines to ecosystems: scaling up assessments of offshore renewable energy impacts
Conveners
Jolien Buyse (Belgium)
Ninon Mavraki (Netherlands)
| Bycatch reduction technologies – Advances in the field and overcoming barriers to implementation
Conveners Julia Calderwood (Ireland)Valentina Meli (Denmark) Jónas Vidarsson (Iceland) Caecilia Manago (Denmark)
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Causes and consequences of extreme temperature events
Conveners
Bethany Wager (USA) Kathy Mills (USA) Dongwha Sohn (Korea) Kirstin Holsman (USA)
| From climate models to meaningful advice –Operationalizing climate-smart fisheries management
Conveners
Cecilie Hansen (Norway)
Myron Peck (Netherlands)
John K. Pinnegar (UK)
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Rethinking Marine AI: Limitations, failures, and future directions Conveners
Ketil Malde (Norway)
David Currie (Ireland)
Hassan Moustahfid (USA)
Laura Uusitalo (Finland)
| Co-sponsored by PICES Understanding and managing human impacts on marine benthic ecosystem functioning Conveners
Marija Sciberras (UK)
Ulrike Braeckman (Belgium)
Clare Bradshaw (Sweden)
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Restoring fished seascapes –Challenges, operational limits, and management
Conveners
Mark Dickey-Collas (UK)
Eirini Glyki (Denmark)
Maximilian Schwarz (Belgium)
| Social-ecological assessment in multi-use marine spaces
Conveners
Lisa Pfeiffer (USA)
Olivier Thébaud (France)
Angela Muench (UK)
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Integrative approaches for marine biodiversity assessment
Conveners
Paola Batta-Lona (USA)
Silke Laakmann (Germany)
Astrid Cornils (Germany)
Henning Reiss (Norway)
| Quantifying and assessing contaminants impacts – do we have the tools?
Conveners
Ketil Hylland (Norway) Hannah Anderson (Scotland) Joachim Sturve (Sweden)
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Data quality in small-scale fisheries – Bridging new methods and regulations with field realities
Conveners
Eneko Bachiller (Spain)
Sebastien Demaneche (France)
Rita Vasconçelos (Portugal)
| Ecological impacts of warming-induced changes in organismal body sizes
Conveners
Max Lindmark (Sweden)
Jennifer Bigman (USA)
Zhen Lin (Japan)
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Aquaculture and impact of climate change Conveners Ellen Sofie Grefsrud (Norway)
Ann-Lisbeth Agnalt (Norway)
| Plankton, especially gelatinous zooplankton, and its interaction with fisheries
Conveners Cornelia Jaspers (Denmark)
Daniel Ottmann (Spain)
Russell R. Hopcroft (USA)
Dhugal Lindsay (Japan)
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Building partnerships for novel oceanographic and fisheries-dependent data
Conveners A. Miguel Piecho-Santos (Portugal)
Andrew D. Corso (USA)
Lucie Cocquempot (France)
| Other important research not covered in this year's theme sessions
Conveners TBD
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