History of the ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management, 1978–2007

The preparation of this history of the ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management (ACFM) has been a work in progress for several years. The initial step was a presentation by Fredric Serchuk (ACFM Chair, 1990 1993), co-authored by seven other previous ACFM Chairs, entitled “The ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management (ACFM), 1978–2000: a quarter century agrowing” given at the ICES symposium on “100 Years of Science under ICES” held in Helsinki, 1–4 August 2000. Unfortunately, the presentation was not submitted for publication in the proceedings of the symposium (Anderson, 2002).