Report of the Workshop on Anchovy, Sardine and Climate Variability in the North Sea and Adjacent Areas (WKANSARNS)

WKANSARNS  met  in  Nantes,  France  to  investigate  the  phenomena  of  increased  catches in anchovy and sardine since the mid‐1990s in the North Sea and adjacent areas.  The  workshop  attempted  to  increase  our  understanding  by  considering  the  phenomenon in terms of the processes controlling the life cycle of anchovy and sar‐dine. It considered the historical context and synthesised across the scientific disci‐plines of oceanography, climatology, genetics, ecology, biophysical individual‐based modelling and analysis of empirical time series