Themed Sets

ICES Journal of Marine Science strives to advance marine science by making judicious use of themed article sets. Themed sets are series of coordinated contributions - introduced by a synthetic overview - on a selected topic. Both individually and collectively, themed sets are instrumental in focusing attention, triggering opinions and stimulating ideas, discussion and activity in specific research fields.

Upcoming

Find out more about upcoming themed collections as well as those that are currently open for submissions here. 

2025

• 7th International Billfish Symposium
• Improving sustainability outcomes by reducing bycatch in commercial fishing gear
• ICES Journal – celebrating a century of marine science
• Assessing the impact of expanding offshore wind energy
• Co-Designing Science for the Ocean We Want
• The Ten Challenges of the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

2023

• Advances and challenges in the modelling and assessment of fishery resource

• Impacts of fishing on seabirds

• Building the knowledge base to support blue growth in small island developing states

• Challenges to incentivising avoidance of unwanted catch

• Co-Designing Science for the Ocean We Want​​

2022

• Marine zooplankton time series: essential tools to understand variability in productivity-determining processes in the oceans

• Exploring adaptation capacity of the world’s oceans and marine resources to climate change

2021

• Patterns of biodiversity of marine zooplankton based on molecular analysis

• A tribute to the life and accomplishments of Sidney J. Holt

• Marine aquaculture in the anthropocene

2020

• Marine recreational fisheries - current state and future opportunitie

• Applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in marine science

• Science in support of a nonlinear non-equilibrium world

• Decommissioned offshore man-made installations

2019

• Mesopelagic resources - opportunities and risks

• Plugging spatial ecology into sustainable fisheries and EBM

2018

Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction

Marine Protected Areas

Billfishes in a Changing World

2017

Beyond Ocean Connectivity

Towards a Broader Perspective on Ocean Acidification Research - Part 2

Case studies in operationalizing ecosystem-based management

2016

Balanced harvest and the ecosystem approach to fisheries

Seascape Ecology

Towards a Broader Perspective on Ocean Acidification Research - Part 1

2015

Risk assessment

Marine Mammal Bycatch and Depredation

Revisiting Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis

2014

Preventing Overfishing

Parameterizing and Operationalizing Zooplankton Production and Trophic Interaction Models

The Value of Coastal Habitats for Exploited Species

Larval Fish Conference

Integrated assessments

Bycatch and discards: from improved knowledge to mitigation programmes

Fluctuations in the great fisheries of northern Europe - Commemorating 100 years since Hjort's 1914 treatise.

Marine Harvesting in the Arctic