EvoFish was well represented during the Annual Science Conference of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), arranged in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) last week. EvoFish came with a three strong crew and presented five talks and one poster, all in the theme session "Stocks in flux: From selection pressures via phenotypic and genetic adaptive responses to impacts on ecosystem services":

• Beatriz Diaz Pauli: Behavioural differences between experimental populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) that experienced size-selective fishing
• Beatriz Diaz Pauli: Phenotypic and genetic changes in life history traits in experimental populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) that experienced size-selective fishing
• Mikko Heino: Changes in age and size at maturation of Northeast Arctic cod are driven by the interplay between environmentally-induced phenotypic plasticity and fisheries-induced selection
• Mikko Heino: How strong is fisheries-induced selection? An assessment of selection differentials caused by fishing
• Mikko Heino: How strong is fisheries-induced selection? A general framework for estimating fisheries-induced selection differentials (poster)
• Fabian Zimmermann: Influence of gear selectivity on maturation evolution and yield

Twitter was popular during the conference, and one can find selected highlights with the hashtag #ICES_ASC - including many tweets from EvoFish.

Following similar theme sessions in 2002, 2006, and 2010, the theme session was the fourth one in series where fisheries-induced evolution has been one of the key topics. Perhaps another one will be arranged in 2018?