Conveners:Webjørn Melle (Norway)Antonina dos Santos (Portugal)Peter Wiebe (USA)
Modernizing fisheries stock assessment and monitoring with genetic methods
Conveners: Rich Hillary (Australia)Pascal Lorance (France)Jan Jaap Poos (The Netherlands)
Conveners: Andrea Morf (Sweden)Kira Gee (Germany)Riku Varjopuro (Finland)
The Nordic seas and the Arctic; climatic variability and its impact on marine ecosystems, fisheries, and policymakingConveners: Harald Gjøsæter (Norway)Agnes Gundersen (Norway)Heino Fock (Germany)
Cumulative effects assessment in the marine realm: approaches, examples, and future needs
Conveners: Vanessa Stelzenmüller (Germany)Marta Coll (Spain)Joachim Claudet (France)
Bottom-up approaches: the contribution of marine benthos to management, conservation and monitoring; taking stock, and setting research direction
Conveners:Silvana Birchenough (United Kingdom)Ingrid Kröncke (Germany)Steven Degraer (Belgium)
Ocean basin-scale research and management: challenges and opportunities
Conveners:J. Murray Roberts (United Kingdom)Ellen Kenchington (Canada)
Preparing for change; challenges for fisheries governance
Conveners:Xochitl Cormon (Germany)Camilla Sguotti (Germany)Christian Möllmann (Germany)Mary Hunsicker (USA)
Survey data products for stock and ecosystem assessments; challenges and future directions
Conveners:Verena Trenkel (France)Sven Kupschus (United Kingdom)Stan Kotwicki (USA)
How are we managing? Developing new management tools for commercially exploited sharks and rays
Conveners:Paddy Walker (The Netherlands)Ivone Figueiredo (Portugal)Jim Ellis (United Kingdom)
Future-oriented seafood markets: economic dimensions, ecological compatibility, and social aspects of fisheries and aquaculture
Conveners: Cornelia Kreiss (Germany)Rasmus Nielsen (Denmark)
Molecules and morphology; integrative taxonomic analysis of marine planktonic assemblages
Conveners: Pennie Lindeque (United Kingdom)Lidia Yebra (Spain)Ann Bucklin (USA)
Technical approaches to reduce the environmental impact of fishing
Conveners: Dave Reid (Ireland)Daniel Stepputtis (Germany)Steve Cadrin (USA)
Working towards an ecosystem approach to north Atlantic marine aquaculture
Electronic monitoring and movement analysis in fisheries; applications of emerging scienceConveners: Neil Campbell (United Kingdom)Nicolas Bez (France)Chris McGuire (USA)
Sustainability thresholds and ecosystem functioning: the selection, calculation, and use of reference points in fisheries managementConveners: Daniel R. Goethel (USA)Henrik Sparholt (Denmark)Aaron M.Berger(USA)Xiujuan Shan (China)
Towards a better understanding of human behaviour for improved fisheries science and managementConveners:Melania Borit (Norway)Bruce Edmonds (United Kingdom)Marloes Kraan (The Netherlands)
