News from 2016

Press release - ICES opens Annual Science Conference 2016 Call for papers

Today, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) opens the Call for papers for its Annual Science Conference (ASC).

Press release - ICES meets with advice recipients and observers

As part of its close collaboration with stakeholders, ICES is holding meetings this week with advice recipients (MIRIA) and observers to the advisory process (MIACO).

Press release - International experts assemble in Copenhagen for ecosystem approach workshop

ICES and other partners in the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Support Action (AORA-CSA) as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), are participating in the three-day meeting.

IJMS Editor’s Choice – the economic value of environmental data

A selected Editor’s Choice piece from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month read about how insurance concepts allow evaluations of trade-offs between economic gains and risks for an anchovy stock.

Advice released on effects of pulse trawling

Following a request from France, the updated advice from previous years addresses issues related to the impact of pulse trawl gear on the ecosystem.

Press release - MSY reference point proxies for category 3 and 4 stocks

Classifying the status of category 3 and 4 stocks relative to Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)

Interact with InterCatch

Register for March workshop on web-based data application InterCatch

Marine sediment extraction report published

Cooperative Research Report (CRR) ‘effects of extraction of marine sediment on the marine environment 2005-2011’ now available in library.

In memoriam - Fátima Cardador

ICES is deeply saddened to inform that our colleague and good friend Fátima Cardador passed away on Wednesday 17 February 2016.

The sky’s the limit with data limited

September tutorial will immerse students in a world of assessment techniques for data limited stocks. Here, instructors Jim Berkson, Anne Cooper, and Jason Cope answer questions on the course and what students can expect to get from it.

FEATURE ARTICLE - One year on: the landing obligation in Europe

The first feature article of 2016 looks at the effect the introduction of the landing obligation has had on EU fisheries.

Making the case for the ecosystem approach

Examples of the ecosystem approach in action around the world presented at recent Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Support Action (AORA-CSA) workshop in Copenhagen.

New portal for deep sea discoveries

Portal recently launched by ICES visualizes all known vulnerable marine ecosystem (VME) data in the North Atlantic.

In memoriam - Krzysztof Skóra

ICES are deeply saddened by the recent passing of Krzysztof Skóra at the age of 65.

Press release - ICES Journal of Marine Science publishes special issue on ocean acidification

Today, the ICES Journal of Marine Science publishes a special issue on ocean acidification, the most-studied single topic in marine science in recent times.

ICES and EU sign Memorandum of Understanding

ICES President and Director-General of DG MARE sign annual agreement in Copenhagen.

Nominations open for ICES awards

Do you know someone whose scientific contribution to ICES has stood out and deserves to be recognized? Then put them forward for an ICES award.

Press release - ICES publishes ecosystem overviews for four ecoregions

Today, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) publishes ecosystem overviews for the Barents Sea, the Bay of Biscay and Iberian waters, the Celtic Seas, and the North Sea.

Press release - ICES ASC 2015 wins the Conference of the Year Award

The ICES Annual Science Conference (ASC) 2015, which took place last September in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been awarded the best 2015 Copenhagen conference with less than 1000 participants at the Copenhagen Congress and Event Awards.

Social science training and socio-ecological symposium team up

Training course in social science methods for natural scientists to be held the weekend before the MSEAS marine socio-ecological symposium in Brest, France.

IJMS Editor’s Choice – Working spatial synchrony of population distribution into assessment models

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month, read about the spatial synchrony and asynchrony of fish population distributions and modelling them in stock assessments.

Press Release - New online tool for naming expert groups

ICES revolutionizes the world of scientific working group names and acronyms - one letter at a time!

Report on Ocean Climate 2014 published

Report collating and presenting data on physical properties of the ocean in the North Atlantic region now available in our online library.

Bringing the human dimension into ICES work

Developing a tool for incorporating environmental-, ecosystem-based and socio-economic conditions into the ICES advisory process.

Make a mark on Arctic research

Arctic theme session at Annual Science Conference in September to focus on challenges and opportunities in world’s most northerly marine areas.

FEATURE ARTICLE – Changing perceptions

Our second feature of the year explores the concept of shifting baseline syndrome and what’s being done to tackle it.

Nominate a colleague for the Outstanding Achievement Award

Do you know someone who has contributed greatly to ICES work over a sustained period? If you feel a person’s efforts have been special, then why not consider putting them forward for the Outstanding Achievement Award?

Cetacean bycatch advice released

As well as assessment of available data, advice on bycatch of harbour porpoise and other protected marine species expresses need for consideration of sampling schemes.

In memoriam - Kjartan Hoydal

ICES is deeply saddened to inform that our colleague and good friend Kjartan Hoydal passed away on Monday 2 May.

Gaining from ICES training

ICES is running five training courses this autumn. We asked some of the instructors who benefits most from attending and why the courses are important.

ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium: Stein Kaartvedt

The 6th ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium "New Challenges in a Changing Ocean" is taking place this week, 9-13 May, in Bergen, Norway, and ICES news will feature a selection of articles from keynote speakers throughout the week.

ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium: Ruben Escribano

Does climate change matter for zooplankton production in upwelling systems? This is the question Ruben Escribano asked participants on the second day of the 6th ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium.

ICES advises on possible effects of salmonid aquaculture

ICES releases advice to NASCO on the possible effects of salmonid aquaculture on wild Atlantic salmon populations.

ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium: Sanae Chibae

Discovering the new through scrutiny of the old: Sanae Chibae presents the Odate Collection and future of zooplankton monitoring in the global observation initiatives at the ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium.

ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium: Peter Wiebe

"Zooplankton are absolutely fundamental to marine ecosystems. If we are to understand the effects of marine ecosystems changes, we first have to unveil the complex zooplankton mechanisms", says Peter Wiebe.

IJMS Editor's Choice – rebuilding strategies

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month read about the effects of different strategies for restoring overfished stocks.

Food for thought - Pretty Good Multispecies Yield

In the latest Food for Thought article from ICES Journal of Marine Science, the authors explore the concept of Pretty Good Multispecies Yield.

Propose a theme session for the 2017 Annual Science Conference

Join us next September to share your science in Florida.

IJMS Editor's Choice - studying the sardine skew

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the phenomenon of a reproductive skew in Japanese sardine and how it leads to an alternative theory of population abundances fluctuation.

MSEAS 2016 Beth Fulton: Maths is not the hard part of modelling marine socioecological systems

Including the human dimension in Integrated Ecosystem Assessments is the aim of MSEAS 2016 which takes place this week, 30 May–3 June in Brest, France.

MSEAS 2016 Simon Levin: Dealing with public goods and common-pool resources

Including the human dimension in Integrated Ecosystem Assessments is the aim of MSEAS 2016 which takes place this week, 30 May–3 June in Brest, France.

MSEAS 2016 Jake Rice: Fisheries governance in an SES system - All things for all people or all things for all creatures?

Including the human dimension in Integrated Ecosystem Assessments is the aim of MSEAS 2016 which takes place this week, 30 May–3 June in Brest, France.

Understanding marine socio-ecological systems: including the human dimension in integrated ecosystem assessments

What do you get when an economist and an ecologist talk about the ocean? Besides an interesting discussion, it is likely there will be some consideration of how to solve many of the problems facing marine ecosystems around the world.

A year in review ICES Annual Report 2015

Integrated Ecosystem Understanding, the Arctic, and sustainable aquaculture - ICES key strategic areas - all receive attention in the review of the organization's activities for 2015.

MSEAS 2016 Anthony Charles: Integrating assessment and management across ocean uses, across scales

Including the human dimension in Integrated Ecosystem Assessments is the aim of MSEAS 2016 which took place last week, 30 May–3 June in Brest, France.

ICES launches underwater noise data portal

All licensed impulsive underwater noise events in EU waters to be found on new data portal.

Assessing the new crew!

Four new professional officers have just joined the team at ICES Secretariat. Let's meet our new colleagues and find out what they will be doing for the ICES community!

Call for Abstracts now open for ECSC 2017

The third ICES/PICES Early Career Scientist Conference takes place 30 May - 2 June 2017 in Busan, Korea. Call for Abstracts is now open.

FEATURE ARTICLE – Underwater noise

The latest piece in our series of features looks at the world of underwater noise and the associated impacts and assessment.

Assessing the sensitivity of the sea floor

Advice released on approach to carry forward sea floor sensitivity mapping for Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).

To Korea for the early careers

Following two previously succesful conferences, ICES and PICES have joined forces again to bring together the upcoming generation of marine scientists in the Republic of Korea next year. Here, we speak to some of the organizers.

Vulnerable marine ecosystem advice released

Advice issued on vulnerable marine ecosystems draws on information from new ICES database.

Meet the humans behind the human dimension

Three of the experts involved in the Strategic Initiative on the Human Dimension (SIHD) talk about defining the concept of the 'human dimension', its importance, and what they bring to the table.

IJMS Editor’s Choice – regarding discards

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study that identifies areas suitable for fishing under the new European discard ban.

Ecosystem overviews and status of fish stocks presented to European Commission

Special EU seminar sees ICES deliver an overview of the status of a host of fish and shellfish stocks across the Northeast Atlantic and present the newly developed ecosystem overviews.

IJMS Editor’s Choice – genetic mixing of wild and farmed salmon

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study of the process known as genetic introgression in wild Atlantic salmon populations in Norway.

IJMS Editor's Choice - biomass basis for reference point management

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Read about a study that looks at an alternative method for spatial reference points feeding into groundfish management.

Reflecting on management strategies

Upcoming management strategy evaluation training course brings the performance of harvest control rules (HCRs) into focus.

Mapping and managing marine heritage

Session at recent EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) conference centres on marine heritage and the charting of key cultural and social sites interlinked with the use of the ocean.

Interactive ecosystem overview diagrams published online

Four online interfaces presenting the ecosystem overviews and visualizing the links between human activities, pressures on the ecosystem, and states are now available on our website

FEATURE ARTICLE – Plastics and plankton

The latest piece in our series of expert contributions focuses on the issue of minute plastic particles in the oceans, where they come from, and their effects on the smallest forms of marine life.

Subjects under spotlight at the ASC

The Arctic and microplastics among the hot scientific topics as the Annual Science Conference (ASC) in Riga draws near.

Reflecting on the ecosystem approach for the Arctic

Arctic Council conference on ecosystem approach hears lessons learned from efforts of ICES-supported Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance (AORA).

New web application replaces the Station Dictionary

A new web app for requesting monitoring station codes is now available online

ICES reviews the MAREANO programme

The workshop regarding the review of the MAREANO programme (WKMAR) was hosted at the ICES Secretariat at the end of August.

Press release - ICES Annual Conference (ASC) 2016 to be hosted in Riga, Latvia

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) will hold its Annual Science Conference (ASC) in the Latvian capital for the very fist time.

Assessment report reveals good news for the Gulf of Finland

The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has published an assessment of the Gulf of Finland, compiling the research results of over a hundred Finnish, Russian and Estonian researchers.

Auf Wiedersehen to Head of Science

After 12 years at the helm as Head of Science Programme at ICES, Adi Kellermann is moving on to new horizons.

Long-term forecasts in the making

How can long-term predictions of the physical environment be translated into predictions about biological outcomes? And can this knowledge be worked into marine resource management? This will be explored in Theme Session I at the ASC, starting on Monday.

Press release – Peter Wiebe receives the Outstanding Achievement Award at ICES Annual Science Conference

ICES has today presented the Outstanding Achievement Award to oceanographer Peter H. Wiebe at its Annual Science Conference (ASC) in Riga, Latvia

Where are we in stock dynamic understanding?

Opening plenary lecture at the ASC in Riga sees Fritz Köster delve into the world of the processes that influence the dynamics of fish stocks, honing in on the pertinent case of eastern Baltic cod.

Noted Danish scientist eulogized at ASC

Life and times of pioneering Danish marine scientist Johannes Schmidt told in story at ASC and laid down in new book.

Plenty more than fish in the sea

Eva Plaganyi presented future scenarios for fisheries researchers during the Tuesday plenary talk at the ASC, calling for the inclusion of socio-ecological aspects in work.

Press release - Scientists honoured at ICES Annual Science Conference in Riga

ICES presented awards for best oral and poster presentations at the closing ceremony of its 2016 Annual Science Conference (ASC) in Riga, Latvia last Friday.

ICES and CBD secretariats sign agreement

The Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity and ICES are enhancing collaboration. The agreement establishes that the two secretariats will, among other things, exchange experience and knowledge in marine and coastal biological diversity.

Why do we need to manage marine bioinvasions?

The subject of marine bioinvasions was put on the agenda with Chad Hewitt elaborating on the current state of understanding the knowledge gap that creates levels of uncertainty when it comes to assessing the level of impact.

Jens Smed in memoriam

ICES is deeply saddened to inform that our former colleague Jens Smed (1914-2016) passed away on Thursday 22 September.

Removing barriers from ecosystem based fisheries management

MareFrame workshop brought stakeholders around the same table

Exchanging ideas for a better integration

The Workshop on Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Methods (WKIDEA) reviewed the progress of ICES IEA groups towards harmonisation of methodologies and analytical approaches.

IJMS Editor's Choice – engaging stakeholders in advice

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month, read about a study looking into the effectiveness of stakeholder and scientist cooperation in modelling management strategies.

ICES Science and Advisory Committee Chairs take the helm

Simon Jennings and Eskild Kirkegaard will be charting the course of ICES science and advice for the next three years.

ICES invites observers to the advisory process

Annual meeting between ICES, Advisory Councils and official observers to be hosted 19 ̶ 20 January 2017 in Copenhagen

Advice provided on Norway’s EEZ mapping programme

ICES has issued advice about the scientific goals and future direction of the MAREANO programme

Acidification workshop lined up for December

Group will investigate the effects of ocean acidification on commercial species and industry.

Acidification workshop lined up for December

Group will investigate the effects of ocean acidification on commercial species and industry.

A winning expression of gene expression

Acclaimed talk at this year’s ASC tells the story of the genetic and phenotypic impact of size-selective harvesting on a fish stock and how underlying molecular workings drive the phenomenon of fisheries-induced evolution.

Breathing life into ICES stocks

Latest instalment of WKLIFE workshop helping to advance methods for stocks for which knowledge is limited.

Charting the current climate

With the recent publication of the ICES Report on Ocean Climate (IROC) 2015, we take a look at some of the key trends highlighted in the document.

FEATURE ARTICLE – Improving the public image of aquaculture

The latest piece in our series of expert contributions looks at integrated multi-trophic aquaculture and bringing awareness of the activity to the public.

Professor Georgiy Shulman has passed away

ICES is sad to announce the demise of Prof. Georgiy Shulman, one of the pioneering scientists working on fish condition

Marine spatial planning report published

Cooperative Research Report (CRR) summarizes expert papers on marine spatial planning (MSP), including topics such as multidisciplinary research approaches.

Lotte Worsøe Clausen is the new Head of Advisory Support

We are delighted to announce that Lotte Worsøe Clausen will take on the duties as the Head of Advisory Support at the ICES Secretariat in the new year.

New map for marine directives

Map adopted by EU Member States will help support the enactment of EU marine legislation such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and the EU Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Directive.

Learning stock assessment

Last week we organized a training course on stock assessments. We spoke with two participants and asked them what they had learned during the week.

Cultural Significant Areas Workshop in Riga, Latvia

Giving culture a place within marine planning space

Workshop session considered non-material values, cultural practices and emotional dimensions related to the sea and their place in marine spatial planning.

IJMS Editor’s Choice – ecosystem approach perspectives

The latest selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study on the successes and challenges of the ecosystem approach to management from those working in different marine sectors.

IJMS Editor’s Choice – the metabolic cost of calcification

The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study of the Pacific oyster and the role ocean acidification plays in how its metabolic energy is allocated and in shell formation.

Is oil spill risk controllable?

One expert group taking on the challenge of estimating in advance how much ecological damage different sized oil spills could cause.

Collaboration from ocean to plate

Final conference of fisheries, aquaculture and seafood cooperation project COFASP reflects on the research and training needs and priorities identified during the initiative.

FEATURE ARTICLE – Understanding high CO2 worlds

The latest in our series of expert contributions explores the issue of ocean acidification and turning science and knowledge into advice.

Master methods for MSY proxies

Two-part course on proxy MSY reference points in January and February to kick off the 2017 training programme.

Master methods for MSY proxies

Two-part course on proxy MSY reference points in January and February to kick off the 2017 training programme.

IJMS Editor’s Choice – describing fish sex change

The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the use of a game theory model to define the conditions under which fish sex changes occur.

Seasons greetings from the ICES Secretariat

Our Secretariat is closed 24 December - 1 January. We will be back in the office on Monday, 2 January. We wish everyone a happy and peaceful holiday season.

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