Report of the Advisory Committee (ACOM), 1–4 December 2015

The participants were welcomed to the meeting by ACOM Chair Eskild Kirkegaard. A special welcome was made to Michele Casini who attended the ACOM meeting for the first time and to Ghislain Chouinard who will be new ACOM Vice-Chair in 2016 replacing John Simmonds.The meeting was attended by all ICES member countries except Lithuania. Green-land, the Faroes Islands and EU were represented at the meeting as observers togeth-er with the SSGIEA Chair, the SSGIEOM Chair, the BSG Chairs (see list of participants in Annex 1).