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Mark Dickey-Collas 🏳️‍🌈
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Knowledge for sustainable sea & ocean management | Humans Core to the Ecosystem Approach | cripple | I tweet for me | Tagged ≠ me
GOOD NEWS - Indicator of blue shark abundance in SW UK show consistent rise
Further fascinating insights from Simon Thomas & Doug Herdson on fish populations, particularly around the recent rise of apex predators such as #sharks & bluefin #tuna 🦈 🐟
May 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Such a tragedy - Eel "management plans". @icesmarine.bsky.social again highlight that member states plans are failing to make a substantive difference & reporting data are also missing. Mortality, usually non-fishing, is far too high doi.org/10.17895/ice...
May 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
North Sea herring, my forever favourite fish stock: Recruitment looking SHAKY, with consequences for the fishery. New advice from @icesmarine.bsky.social doi.org/10.17895/ice...
April 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A great short video explaing multiple sclerosis m.youtube.com/watch?v=nw2K...
What is MS? | MS Society UK
YouTube video by MS Society UK
m.youtube.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My week at #BBNJ highlighted to me that the voice of fisheries is still largely absent & needs to be heard at prep com 2 in August. Watch this space @fao.org @unbiodiversity.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org

🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science
When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
New York bound - heading to BBNJ prep com as part of IUCN delegation- looking forward to observing & contributing…
April 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Sharks and rays... Useful insights from value chain analysis for sustainable management of fisheries doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
April 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“Conservation is inherently social process…. there is a need for leaders to prioritize social sciences in conservation,”. Great gap analysis of social science for conservation - a good read and resource doi.org/10.1111/cobi... @icesmarine.bsky.social @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @ospar.bsky.social
Gap analysis of social science resources for conservation practice
Conservation is an inherently social process—people collectively endeavor to enact conservation. Yet, in conservation social science, research methodologies, training, and competency are less common ...
doi.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
RESTORATION of marine habitats & species: just out @icesmarine.bsky.social workshop report on enhancing understanding of restoration processes, success criteria, & factors affecting recovery rates. Pleased to have contributed to this useful new resource doi.org/10.17895/ice...
April 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Science for social & economic impacts marine windfarms from @icesmarine.bsky.social today "collection & collation of data is not coordinated internationally. They are inaccessible for scientific purposes & not collated on scale for fishery or ecoregion assessments of impacts" doi.org/10.17895/ice...
April 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The highlight of being a Trustee to @thembauk.bsky.social is the annual 2 day Council meeting. Intense & stimulating discussions on many scales of marine biology www.mba.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Great day in Brussels meeting Commissioner Kadis and his cabinet to talk about ecosystem-based fisheries management
April 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NEAFC-OECM | North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission
www.neafc.org
April 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It was a privilege to give a keynote presentation on ecosystem approach to fisheries management @fao.org @icesmarine.bsky.social symposium. View it here eafm-symposium.nafo.int/Portals/3/Do...
eafm-symposium.nafo.int
March 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
It was great to see this timeline of @icesmarine.bsky.social moving on ecosystem approach. I’m pleased that it made such progress during the last 6 years. I enjoyed the journey 😉
I was honored to give a key note at the recent Symposium on Applying the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in the ABNJ at the FAO in Rome.
You can access all the presentations here: eafm-symposium.nafo.int/Information/...
And the webcast recordings here: www.fao.org/webcast/home...
March 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The European seas don’t recognise our human borders. I learnt a lot about current pressures on EU fisheries policies in Brussels yesterday.
March 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It was great to present a keynote on ecosystem approach at @fao.org www.fao.org/webcast/home...
March 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I am so proud to have worked for an organisation like @icesmarine.bsky.social that knows that it was lacking, & now is taking affirmative steps to strengthen women, thus making itself more resilient & innovative. Huge thanks to @ellenjohannesen.bsky.social for being a champion.
🌍 Today, we are celebrating #InternationalWomensDay!

With the Advisory Committee meeting this week, we asked our newest ACOM Vice-Chair, Marie-Julie Roux and ACOM Chair, Colm Lordan how the marine science community and ICES can #AccelerateAction for gender equality 🌊

Learn more💡🔗 bit.ly/3XtS7Gv
March 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Thank you @lenfestocean for 20 years ! @blueconvergence will follow the lessons learned and continue supporting useful & useable transdisciplinary #science. I'm so excited to see this! Learn more and sign up for their newsletter here: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s... #oceanscience #codesign
March 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In solidarity with my friends & colleagues in the USA Federal system, this is what I accomplished last week.
Although some of you point out that the email from DOGE might be their way to link better together all their databases
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This session looks great…
Managing species distribution shifts at #ICESASC25
Distribution shifts create many challenges.
Simply documenting the changes is not enough, we must explore effective strategies for adapting to them.
💡 Submit your abstract by 17 March
✍https://www.ices.dk/events/asc/2025/Pages/Theme-session-H.aspx
February 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Losing Didzis is such a devastating piece of news. I enjoyed working with him on a professional and personal level. My thoughts go out to his family. www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
In memoriam - Didzis Ustups
www.ices.dk
February 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM