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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Jan 24

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Jan 24

🚨 Calling all marine science enthusiasts! 🚨

ICES's Annual Science Conference, cutting-edge research with a global community 15–18 September! 🌊✨

📅 Deadline to submit abstracts: 17 March.
🌟 Don’t miss out— it’s going to be inspiring, interactive, and yes, always fun!

www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...

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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · Jan 10

🌬🌊Join ICES Workshop to compile evidence on the impacts of offshore renewable energy on fisheries & marine ecosystems #WKCOMPORE
📅3-7 February 2025

❗Experts in social sciences, economics, fisheries, spatial planning & cumulative impacts needed - register by 24 January
www.ices.dk/community/gr...

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Dec 21

@jangeerthiddink.bsky.social @pdvd.bsky.social

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Dec 21

Marine nature restoration?

Come contribute 3-7 March 2025 to pioneering work to set the scene for what science can offer managers implementing restoration measures 🪸🌊🦈

Open to all ICES workshop WKREST: www.ices.dk/community/gr...

ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · Dec 20

🌊 Join our Workshop on Nature Restoration #WKREST in March 2025 to explore how ICES expertise can help meet targets set by the EU's Nature Restoration Law to restore marine habitats.

📅 4–7 March 2025
🔗Register ices.dk/community/groups/Pages/WKREST.aspx

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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · Dec 20

Season's greetings from ICES Secretariat!
We wish everyone a happy and peaceful holiday season.

Our Secretariat will be closed from 24 December- 1 January. We will be back in the office again on 2 January 2025.

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Dec 15

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Dec 15

Any deep sea experts wanting to work amongst others with me? 🪸

See what it's all about in the below short video:

ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · Dec 12

Contribute to the sustainable use of the deep sea
Our Working Group on Deep-water Ecology prepares the technical work required for ICES advice to the EU & NEAFC on how to manage fisheries while considering deep-sea ecosystems.
Want to join?
www.ices.dk/community/gr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P14j...

Dive deep - Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

YouTube video by ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · Dec 11

🐟 What drives fish recruitment in the Great Lakes?
✍️ In the latest #IJMS #EditorsChoice, @tabrown.bsky.social examines 60 years of Lake Whitefish & Cisco trends, offering key insights for fisheries management.
👉 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/ices...

youtu.be/-jQvHyKBqNo?...

Editor’s Choice-Nearly 6 decades of recruitment trends for Lake whitefish & Cisco in the Great Lakes

YouTube video by ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Dec 4

Angel could you please add me to the four starter packs please, thanks 🙏

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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · Nov 29

🌊What does it take to assess and protect 2.2 million km² of seabed—an area equivalent to half the land surface of the EU?
For the past 7 years, our Working Group on Fisheries Benthic Impact and Trade-offs #WGFBIT has been hard at work finding out! Nearly there!
www.ices.dk/community/gr...

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Nov 27

Which seafloor indicator to use?
We demonstrate complementarity, sensitivity, and specificity of 18 indicators in response to the pressure of bottom trawling using a shared dataset across different parts of European Seas

Photos and abstract here: doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

@pdvd.bsky.social et al.

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · Nov 26

From the @icesmarine.bsky.social Baltic Sea Ecosystem Overview: "Average bottom-fishing intensity has decreased significantly since 2013. Average impact on benthic habitat and associated biota from bottom trawling has been low and declining since 2012."

ices-library.figshare.com/articles/rep...

Baltic Sea Ecoregion – Ecosystem Overview

Key signalsHuman activities and their pressuresWhile fishing is the main activity impacting the ecosystem via selective extraction of species, agriculture and forestry, together with wastewater discha...

ices-library.figshare.com

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Nov 26

How is the Baltic Sea ecosystem doing? Here is a quick overview:

ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · Nov 26

🌊 The Baltic Sea - balancing pressures in a changing ecosystem
We have published an updated Ecosystem Overview highlighting the pressures impacting this ecosystem.
📄 doi.org/10.17895/ice...

ℹWe talk to Carolyn Faithfull & Riikka Puntila-Dodd who led this work www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · Nov 22

I really enjoyed the meeting. Working together solving science problems in a mix of presentations, analysis and critique really speeds up the process.

Lorna McKellar @lornamckellar.bsky.social · Nov 22

Sometimes we also smile at #WGFBIT, mostly after the statiscal models are complete 💪 thanks to IFREMER and the FBIT team for such an enjoyable and productive week. Lots of progress on developing quality thresholds for GES / good status assessments

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Nov 23

Work-week in lovely France, merci! 🇫🇷

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · Nov 20

We've been discussing our Europe wide trawl impact assessment today at wgfbit, with his progress on the analysis for the paper. Muddy seabed is most heavily impacted across the regions.

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Nov 19

@icesmarine.bsky.social @pdvd.bsky.social @lornamckellar.bsky.social @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social

Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Nov 19

Feeling the buzz from experts here at IFREMER in Nantes, France. What’s in it for them? Experts value being able to focus for a whole week on working and developing ideas around a common meaningful theme with peers from various fields of science/policy.

More on WGFBIT:

www.ices.dk/community/gr...

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Nov 17

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · Nov 17

Started my train journey to Nantes to chair the @icesmarine.bsky.social working group FBIT. I'm looking forward to creating and seeing the outputs of EU wide trawl impact assessment.

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Nov 17

This coming week in Nantes, France working with a cross-disciplinary group of experts - including benthic ecology, marine habitat mapping, fisheries gear technology, and policy and management.

WGFBIT
www.ices.dk/community/gr...

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Dr. Sebastian Valanko 🌊 @sebvalanko.bsky.social · Nov 17

How do we know how the seafloor is doing? Where is it healthy or degraded to the state that it's not functioning? How do we improve it in places where it's not good?

Here is what you need to know as a manager when choosing an set of indicator:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · Nov 8

I've been at Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk this week working on applying the ICES WGFBIT trawling impact assessment method to Greenland waters. It has been productive (and also an amazing country to visit).

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