Global change, linked to climate and direct anthropogenic impacts, is causing redistribution of marine species worldwide, modifying fish population and stock structure, as well as community compositions. These changes may have strong impacts on fisheries and natural fish biodiversity as well as related ecosystem services. However, our capacity to assess and monitor short and long-term changes in species distribution and biodiversity is hampered by data availability and heterogeneity.

This conference, organized by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity’s Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity, will present activities of the Fish biodiversity facing global change (FISHGLOB) consortium which has collected and combined a unique data set of scientific bottom trawl surveys conducted regularly during the last decades across the globe. Topics will cover FISHGLOB consortium and data features, imputation method for missing species traits, Red list assessments, effects of marine heat waves, species assemblages’ homogenization/differentiation through time, consequences on fish stocks shared across countries and fishery management.

FISHGLOB aims to provide an infrastructure enhancing international cooperation and knowledge transfer among data providers, scientists and stakeholders in order to support biodiversity and fishery management adaptation in a time of global change.

Registration details:

• Date and time: 5 December 2024, 2:00pm to 6:00pm CEST.
• Register here (free).
• The conference requires mandatory registration which closes on 17 November 2024 at midnight CEST.
• The event is also available remotely via video conference. The link will be provided on the event page.

Conference Schedule 

2:00pm – 2:25pm Introduction
Philippe Augé (Director of the University of Montpellier)
Nicolas Mouquet (Scientific director of the CESAB)

2:25pm – 2:45pm Introduction to FISHGLOB & UN Ocean Decade
Bastien Merigot (University of Montpellier)

2:45pm – 3:05pm FISHGLOB ​​datasets, international community-building, and infrastructure
Aurore Maureaud (Technical University of Denmark)

3:05pm – 3:25pm Future of the FISHGLOB infrastructure
Deng Palomares (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Robert Guralnick (Florida Museum of Natural History, US)

3:25pm – 3:45pm Time-series, phylogenetic, and spatial extensions of structural equation models: imputing traits, analyzing ecosystem drivers, and identifying habitat associations
James Thorson (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle)

3:45pm – 4:05pm Coupling state‐of‐the‐art modelling tools for better informed Red List assessments of marine fishes
James Thorson (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle)
Aurore Maureaud (Technical University of Denmark)

4:05pm – 4:20pm Break

4:20pm – 4:40pm Life-history strategy compositions in North-Atlantic fish communities responding to changes in fishing pressure and temperature
Laurène Pécuchet (Arctic University of Tromsø, Norway)

4:40pm – 5:00pm Marine fish communities cycle between homogenized and differentiated states through time
Zoë Kitchel (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)

5:00pm – 5:20pm Marine heatwaves and changes in biomass and composition of marine fish communities
Alexa Fredston (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Malin Pinsky (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)

5:20pm – 5:40pm Global transboundary patterns and regional applied science for fishery management
Juliano Palacios Abrantes (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Nancy Shackell (Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada)

5:40pm – 7:00pm Appetizer