‘Fish tagging - the good the bad and the unknown’…well from what I saw 👀 it was all good 👍! Thanks to all 13 speakers, and 7 poster presenters who brought this theme session @ices.marine.bsky.social #ICESASC2025 to life, with standing room only your research reached far and wide!

For anyone online or who missed the @icesmarine.bsky.social Expert Group poster session, feel free to come find me at #ICESASC2025 or message me with any questions 🙋‍♀️. I’m biased of course but after 16-years I can say the ICES Working Group on Elasmobranch Fishes is really a fantastic group 😉!

Theme session D 🐟🏷️ ‘Fish Tagging - the good, the bad and the unknown’ #ICESASC2025 @icesmarine.bsky.social off to a flying start this morning with methods and collaboration covered but join us NOW for behaviour and migration, assessments, management and conservation sub-themes!

1 day until Theme session D at #ICESASC25 @icesmarine.bsky.social exploring ‘Fish tagging - the good, the bad and the unknown’ but if you can’t wait until then join us in person for the ‘WKTAG - where now?’ meet up @3:30pm (back of the marquee) with @piasch.bsky.social and Hans Jakob Olesen

12 stocks of #sharks 🦈 and rays assessed and advice on catch limits drafted 👍 by @icesmarine.bsky.social Working Group on Elasmobranch Fishes last week in the beautiful country of Iceland 🇮🇸 Always a pleasure to lead this awesome group💪 and thanks to @mfri.bsky.social for their Viking hospitality!

Training day 3…complete! Full carcass and dried product ID guides by @elasmoproject.bsky.social and Debra Abercrombie distributed to those involved in stopping 🇱🇰 #CITES listed #shark and ray trade. Interested? Get your copy here 👇 @wcs.org
citessharks.org/resources
#sharkconservation #Cefas

Training day 3 afternoon: fins, skins and gill plates! Dried product ID theory & practice by @elasmoproject.bsky.social and Blue Resources Trust in action here in 🇱🇰. 30 attendees trained in ID of #CITES listed #sharks🦈 and rays ✔️ 👏 #sharkconservation #illegalwildlifetrade #OCPP #Cefas

Training day 3 morning: theory into practice with @elasmoproject.bsky.social and Blue Resources Trust at 4:30am in Negombo 🇱🇰- lots of mobulids and some #sharks 🦈 being ID’d by trainees
#sharkconservation #illegalwildlifetrade #OCPP #Cefas

Training day 2 and it’s off to customs HQ here in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 with @elasmoproject.bsky.social leading ID training in #CITES listed #sharks and rays. 30 attendees from customs, coastguard & govt. agencies all put through their paces with the theory before the practical tomorrow.. #sharkconservation

The 1st day of training in 🇱🇰 saw 20 attendees from 5 universities, govt. agencies & Blue Resources Trust learn about Productivity Susceptibility Analysis (PSA) as a data-limited assessment tool. I look forward to supervising and seeing this put into action in Neranjan’s MPhil 🦈under the #OCPP fund

This was the most awesome experience delivering my 2nd Buckland lecture and what a night the SharkTrustUK team pulled off 🤩 The 700 strong audience were so warm and engaged and the other speakers were fantastic…a tough act to follow! It was an honour to be a part of it🙏!

Just arrived in London for ‘For the Love of Sharks 🦈 2024’ and super excited to be giving my next Buckland lecture at such an amazing venue @rgsibg.bsky.social tonight with some absolute legends!