Minutes from the Meeting of the ICES Science Committee (SCICOM)

The SCICOM Chair welcomed participants, and asked for a tour de table to introduce attendees, which included guests and country alternates (see Annex 1).Apologies for Sunday, 14 September, were received from Dave Reid (Ireland) and for Tom Noji (US), who was unable to attend the ASC. The US was represented by Bill Karp (US Alternate). For the second day of the SCICOM meeting John Pinnegar, in-coming SCICOM member, was welcomedA special welcome was extended to Tom Therriault, PICES Science Board Chair, and Laura Richards, PICES Chairman.SCICOM Chair thanked the Spanish hosts for the invitation to a welcome reception to be held at the City Hall of A Coruña on the invitation of the Director of the Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO) and the President of Marina Coruña.