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Science for sustainable seas.
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📢Introducing our brand new app fisheriesXplorer! Our fisheries overviews data as live, navigable visuals and downloadable datasets. Find data on fishing activities in each ICES ecoregion: catches, bycatch, discards, fleet interactions and more. Ready to Xplore?
www.ices.dk/data/assessm...
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Interested in leading regional cooperation for the Baltic Sea? HELCOM
@helcominfo.bsky.social
is accepting applications for the position of Executive Secretary 👇
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Designing the next generation of Ecosystem Overviews Join our upcoming Workshop for the Prototyping of the Norwegian Sea Ecosystem Overview
#WKSHADOW
🔔Register by 18 January! 📍Copenhagen, Denmark 📅16–20 February 2026 ℹ️
https://www.ices.dk/community/groups/Pages/WKSHADOW.aspx
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Season's greetings from ICES Secretariat! We wish everyone a happy and peaceful holiday season. Our Secretariat will be closed from 24 December until 1 January. We will be back in the office again on 2 January 2026.
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How are people in marine and environmental science using social media? Take the survey 👇
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Are you joining the Symposium on restoration: Habitat restoration for diadromous fishes – best practices and impacts on stock assessment? If you are an ECS, make sure to apply for an ICES-sponsored travel grant when you submit your abstract
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Designing the next generation of Ecosystem Overviews Join
@bplanque.bsky.social
& Lucie Buttay for our upcoming Workshop for the Prototyping of the Norwegian Sea Ecosystem Overview
#WKSHADOW
📍Copenhagen, Denmark 📅16–20 February 2026 🔔Register by 18 January ℹ️
www.ices.dk/community/gr...
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Want to share your work at Oceans Past XI? Want some funding to get to the conference as an early-career researcher? The abstract submission and ECR funding application deadlines have been extended! Visit
oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/
for all the information!
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🚨Advice release - anchovy & sardine stocks ICES Advice to the
@ec.europa.eu
European Commission & the UK
#Defra
on fishing opportunities in 2026 is now available: 🐟Anchovy in the Bay of Biscay
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
🐟Anchovy in the Gulf of Cadiz & southern coast of Portugal
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Oceans Past Initiative
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Our call for Abstracts & ECR Funding Award submissions are OPEN for the OPI XI Conference! 📍 University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 📅 15-19 June, 2026 Closing date for abstracts: 19 December 2025 See our website
oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/
to explore conference sub-themes & submit!
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🚨ICES Annual Science Conference 2026-Call for abstracts open🚨Submit your abstract & share your science🌊 Explore 18 theme sessions & 7 network sessions
www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...
Deadline: 25 February 2026 ICES ASC 2026 📅15–18 September 2026 📍Le Quartz - National Stage, Brest, France
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Join ICES Workshop on unavoidable survey effort reduction 3 (WKUSER3) 📅12–16 January 2026 📍Copenhagen, Denmark Investigate challenges to maintaining consistent time series of survey data products for stock assessment models 🔔Register by 14 December
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🚨Advice release - bycatch ICES advice to the European Commission on bycatch of endangered, threatened and protected (ETP) species of marine mammals, seabirds, marine turtles, and selected fish species of bycatch relevance is out
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
📷Elliott Norse Marine Conservation Institute
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Are you a SAM or SS3 assessor?Work with R, TAF, or assessment workflows? Ready to shape the future of ICES stock assessments? Register now to take part in ICES Workshop 2 on TAF Stock Assessment Templates
#WKTSAT2
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📅19–22 January 2026📍Copenhagen, Denmark & online
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What's the deal with eels? Listen to
@carolinedurif.bsky.social
Caroline Durif, chair of our joint EIFAAC/ICES/GFCM Working Group on Eel
#WGEEL
, as she chats on this podcast about the elusive eel.
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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BBC Audio | The Infinite Monkey Cage | Series 34 | What’s the deal with eels? – Lucy Porter, David Righton and Caroline Durif
Brian Cox and Robin Ince dive into the slippery science of the elusive eel.
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m002kjvd
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🚨Advice release ICES advice to Faroe Islands, Greenland & NEAFC on fishing opportunities in Div. 5b in 2026 🐟Cod in Faroe Plateau
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🐟Cod in Faroe Bank
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🐟Haddock in Faroes grounds
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🐟Saithe in Faroes grounds
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🚨Advice release - fisheries overviews ICES has published fisheries overviews for the Celtic Seas ecoregion (fully revised) & the Greater North Sea ecoregion (updated mixed fisheries section) 🐟 Celtic Seas
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🐟 Greater North Sea
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📢Introducing our brand new app fisheriesXplorer! Our fisheries overviews data as live, navigable visuals and downloadable datasets. Find data on fishing activities in each ICES ecoregion: catches, bycatch, discards, fleet interactions and more. Ready to Xplore?
www.ices.dk/data/assessm...
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Early career scientists! Need to deliver a presentation? SIIECS Seminar series provides an opportunity to practice your presentation and get feedback from peers - sign up now for the next session on 9 December!
www.ices.dk/events/webin...
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🗺️What role does marine debris play in the spead of non-indigenous species on Oceanic Islands in the Northeast Atlantic? Experts in our Working Group on Marine Bioinvasions (WGBIOINV) tell us more 🗺️
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Opening Research Position at IMR in Tromsø in Ecosystem Structure, Dynamics, and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments. Deadline 1st December.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Researcher in Ecosystem Structure, Dynamics, and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (289008) | Institute of Marine Research
Job title: Researcher in Ecosystem Structure, Dynamics, and Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (289008), Employer: Institute of Marine Research, Deadline: Monday, December 1, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/289008/researcher-in-ecosystem-structure-dynamics-and-integrated-ecosystem-assessments
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Balancing fisheries & seafloor health! 🪸 Our Working Group on Fisheries Benthic Impact & Trade-offs
#WGFBIT
met this week in Rome, hosted by ISPRA & chaired by
@jangeerthiddink.bsky.social
@marijasciberras.bsky.social
& Tomasso Russo. 👀Find out more about the group
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🚨Advice release - Greater North Sea ecosystem Aquculture Overview ICES has published the first aquaculture overview for the Greater North Sea ecoregion - available now to view and download
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
Find all ICES latest advice
www.ices.dk/advice/pages...
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🌊Hot off the press Understanding human pressures in the Central Arctic Ocean ICES CRR 361 Ecosystem assessment of the Central Arctic Ocean: Description of human activities, its pressures, & vulnerability of the ecosystem
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
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Scientific symposia are a cornerstone of progress in marine science. ICES actively supports scientific symposia that align with our mission. We now welcome proposals for symposium co-sponsorship in 2027 and 2028. ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/202511_symposiaCall.aspx
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🚨Advice release - Oceanic Northeast Atlantic Ecosystem Overview The new ICES Ecosystem Overview for the Oceanic Northeast Atlantic ecoregion has been published today:
https://bit.ly/3K3rnt5
All the Ecosystem Overviews are available from the ICES website at:
https://bit.ly/3ganTGr
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🚨Advice release - mixed-fisheries ICES considerations on mixed-fisheries for the Bay of Biscay, Celtic Seas, and Greater North Sea have been published today 🐟Bay of Biscay
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
🐟Celtic Sea
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🐟Greater North Sea
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@ec.europa.eu
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🗣️ It's not the fish that need managing but the people that make up the fishery. This reflects the interdisciplinarity of marine science & the focus of our upcoming training course ‘Practical introduction to basic applied social science methods’ 27–30 January 2026 Sign up
www.ices.dk/events/Train...
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José M. González-Irusta
about 2 months ago
We finished yesterday the annual meeting of the Working Group on Marine Habitat Mapping (WGMHM)
@icesmarine.bsky.social
, that this year was hosted by
@afbini.gov.uk
. Very nice and interesting week with great experts and friends dicussing aspects to enhance the use of habitat mapping in ICES advice.
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🚨Advice release - Central Arctic Ocean Ecosystem Overview The new ICES Ecosystem Overview for the Central Arctic Ocean ecoregion has been published today
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
All the Ecosystem Overviews are available from the ICES website at:
www.ices.dk/advice/ESD/P...
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📢We’re hiring a Conference and Training Support Officer Join a team dedicated to coordinating events that inspire progress toward a sustainable ocean future. 📍Copenhagen, Denmark ⏰Apply by 14 November! 🔗
https://www.ices.dk/about-ICES/Jobs-in-ICES/Pages/2511conferencetrainingsupportofficer.aspx
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🚨Advice release - cumulative impact assessments ICES response to the Netherlands request on cumulative impact assessment, on behalf of the Greater North Sea Basin Initiative, is out today
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
All the latest ICES advice is available online
www.ices.dk/advice/Pages...
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🚨Advice release - eel ICES advice to
@ec.europa.eu
, North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission
#NEAFC
, Norway, & UK on fishing opportunities and conservation for eel in 2026 has been released today
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
All the latest ICES advice is available online
www.ices.dk/advice/Pages...
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How do small-scale & Indigenous fisheries manage complex fish populations without the data used in commercial fishing? The latest Editor's Choice shows what’s possible when genomic science & Traditional Ecological Knowledge work together. 📄https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaf187 📷Raphaël Bouchard
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🚨Advice release ICES advice on fishing opportunities in 2026 for Norway lobster and Rockall megrim is now published: 🦐Norway lobster (Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast Ecoregion)
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🦐Norway lobster (Celtic Seas)
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🚨Advice release - Senegalese sole and sand sole ICES response to the request from the
@ec.europa.eu
to establish separate catch advice for Senegalese sole and sand sole in ICES divisions 8.c and 9 has been published:
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
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📢We’re hiring an Advice Department Professional Officer📢 ⏰Want to apply? Be quick -the deadline is Sunday 2 November! Join a team dedicated to supporting ICES network, delivering impactful advice & advancing the connection between science & policy. 📍Copenhagen, Denmark 🔗
www.ices.dk/about-ICES/J...
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📢Do you know an early-career scientist whose work should take centre stage? Nominate them to be our early-career scientist keynote speaker at ICES ASC 2026. Deadline for nominations: 2 November ⏰ ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/ECSasc26Keynote.aspx
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🌊Tiny pellets making a big impact - how zooplankton faecal pellets help transport carbon to the deep ocean💩 Read the latest Editor's Choice article in ICES Journal of Marine Science📄Meta-analysis of the role of zooplankton faecal pellets in ocean carbon export flux
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
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Hot off the press🦀 How are Europe’s brown crab fisheries changing? 📖Read ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 360 An overview of the brown crab (Cancer pagurus) fisheries & stock trends in the Northeast Atlantic
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#WGCRAB
📷A brown crab in Ullapool, Scotland by Carlos Mesquita
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🌍 ICES Council convenes in Copenhagen This week, ICES President Carl O'Brien welcomed delegates to Copenhagen for the 113th Annual Statutory Meeting. Highlights included the election of two new vice-presidents 🔵Riikka Venesjärvi, Finland 🔵Ciaran Kelly, Ireland
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Nathalie Steins
2 months ago
Trained in the natural sciences? ✅ Skills needed in social science methods to work better with stakeholders in marine research? ✅ Check out the ICES training “Practical Introduction to Basic Applied Social Science Methods” (Jan25 🇳🇱) ⏬
#MarSocSci
@icesmarine.bsky.social
www.ices.dk/events/Train...
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Practical introduction to basic applied social science methods
https://www.ices.dk/events/Training/Pages/social_science_2026.aspx
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Putting fishing communities on the map. Four ICES expert groups led a study that introduces a spatial method to identify & map fishing communities across ICES ecoregions, bringing human dimensions into the heart of fisheries assessments.
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The deadline to register for ICES / EFARO Workshop on Aquatic Animal Welfare
#WKAAW
is this week, 24 October⏰ 🤔Who should join? Experts in animal welfare, fisheries, aquaculture & related fields 📅 3-6 November 2025📍Copenhagen, Denmark
www.ices.dk/community/gr...
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📢Do you know an early-career scientist whose work should take centre stage? Nominate them to be our early-career scientist keynote speaker at ICES ASC 2026. Deadline for nominations: 2 November ⏰ ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/ECSasc26Keynote.aspx
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📢We’re hiring an Advice Department Professional Officer📢 Apply to join a dynamic & collaborative international team dedicated to supporting ICES network, delivering impactful advice & advancing the connection between science & policy. 📍Copenhagen, Denmark 🔔2 November 🔗
www.ices.dk/about-ICES/J...
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🐟 How can we give salmon a fighting chance? The latest Editor's Choice article in ICES Journal of Marine Science explores when, where, and why salmon become vulnerable to predators and look at how ecosystem-based management can help. 📖
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
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📸Tom Quinn
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🚨Advice release - herring management ICES response to the joint request from the EU, Norway, and UK to incorporate the Long-Term Management Strategy option MS3 in the advice for herring in Subarea 4 and divisions 3.a and 7.d, autumn spawners is published:
doi.org/10.17895/ice...
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Daniel Ottmann
3 months ago
This is an incredible opportunity to showcase the talent and creativity of early-career researchers in marine science! Previous keynote speakers have told me it was one of the highlights of their careers — a chance to share their work on an international stage.
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Echoview
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𝗘𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝟭𝟲 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲! Go from raw echosounder and sonar data to actionable insights with expanded file support, conversion to
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SONAR-netCDF4 format, wideband echointegration, smarter maps, bubble plots & new Interval Analysis operators, and more! 🔗
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📢Putting the spotlight on early-career scientists! Do you know an ECS whose work should take centre stage? Nominate them to be our early-career scientist keynote speaker at ICES ASC 2026. ℹ️https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/ECSasc26Keynote.aspx
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