Started my travels to teach an @icesmarine.bsky.social training course on the bottom trawling risk assessment method that we have been applying in WGFBIT. Currently cruising through Belgium on the Eurostar, continuing tomorrow to Copenhagen after a night at my parents.

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Sometimes we also smile at #WGFBIT, mostly after the statiscal models are complete 💪 thanks to IFREMER and the FBIT team for such an enjoyable and productive week. Lots of progress on developing quality thresholds for GES / good status assessments

Feeling the buzz from experts here at IFREMER in Nantes, France. What’s in it for them? Experts value being able to focus for a whole week on working and developing ideas around a common meaningful theme with peers from various fields of science/policy.

More on WGFBIT:

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Our ICES WGFBIT meeting has completed for this year. Next we will be working on manuscript on a Europe-wide assessment of trawling impacts on broad-scale habitats.

We even had a bit of time to take a few samples, and lots of sauna visits and icy walks.

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Enjoyed presenting my work on estimating thresholds for good status at @icesmarine.bsky.social WGFBIT today in IFREMER, Nantes - we looked at thresholds across benthos community + species, tropical reef fish, seagrass shoot density, and plankton lifeform reference conditions 🦀🐠🌱🪼

Great infographics too, with this bit summarising the part WGFBIT has contributed to
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@colmlordan.bsky.social is presenting the @icesmarine.bsky.social approach to the EAFM, with examples based on WGFBIT analyses www.ices.dk/community/gr...

ICES Working Group on Fisheries Benthic Impact and Trade-offs #WGFBIT is developing quantitative methods of sensitivity to help the mapping process
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Los investigadores @GonzalezIrusta y Maider Plaza de @ieo_santander participan esta semana en el grupo de trabajo #WGFBIT (Working Group on Fisheries Benthic Impact and Trade-offs) del @ICES_ASC.

Este grupo se centra en estudiar los impactos de la pesca de fondo sobre los ecosistemas demersales.

🌊What does it take to assess and protect 2.2 million km² of seabed—an area equivalent to half the land surface of the EU?
For the past 7 years, our Working Group on Fisheries Benthic Impact and Trade-offs #WGFBIT has been hard at work finding out! Nearly there!
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This coming week in Nantes, France working with a cross-disciplinary group of experts - including benthic ecology, marine habitat mapping, fisheries gear technology, and policy and management.

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Still hard at work analysing the state of the seabed in Nantes at IFREMER this week for @icesmarine.bsky.social WGFBIT.
Photo by @sebvalanko.bsky.social
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We've been discussing our Europe wide trawl impact assessment today at wgfbit, with his progress on the analysis for the paper. Muddy seabed is most heavily impacted across the regions.

I've been at Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk this week working on applying the ICES WGFBIT trawling impact assessment method to Greenland waters. It has been productive (and also an amazing country to visit).