Report of the Meeting between ICES and Recipients of ICES Advice, 12–13 January 2016

Participants were welcomed by Eskild Kirkegaard, Chair of ACOM. The importance of the meeting was stressed. New ACOM Vice-Chair Ghislain Chouinard was pre-sented. Ghislain replaces John Simmonds who ended his term by the end of 2015.A warm welcome was also made by ICES General Secretary Anne Christine Brusen-dorff.The meeting was attended by representatives from EU, NEAFC, OSPAR, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, France, Iceland and Norway. Apologies were received from NASCO.See list of participants in Annex 1