Minutes of the meeting of the ICES Advisory Committee (ACOM), Copenhagen, Denmark, 5–8 March 2019

ACOM chair provided ACOM with an overview of the advice activities since November 2018 (Doc 04a) reflecting the rather productive year of 2018, where several EO and FO were added to the advisory products from ICES, which was considered to be a good development that should be continued.In terms of work-load for ACOM, the changes made to the allocation of members to ADGs, in-cluding those reserved for special requests, was anticipated to facilitate a more even distribution of workload and it was concluded that so far this system has worked well. It was confirmed that the decision by ACOM in November regarding the financial support for ADGs was accepted by Bureau providing that an evaluation of the system assigning ACOM participation to ADGs after two years. Thus, all ACOM members will receive travel and per-diem from ICES for any ADG they participate in.