Report of the Workshop on Reviews of Recent Advances in Stock Assessment Models World-wide (WKADSAM)

The Workshop on the Reviews of Recent Advances in Stock Assessment Models Worldwide “Around the World in AD Models” (WKADSAM) was convened in Nantes, France during autumn 2010 as the first meeting of the three-year ICES Strate-gic Initiative on Stock Assessment Methods (SISAM). Despite prevailing economic difficulties which have affected travel budgets for many institutes, the Workshop was successful in attracting participants from all over the world: 21 of the 32 attendees came from outside Europe.