needs to be thoroughly edited and some sections rewritten to improve readability and avoid repetition. Some sentences and paragraphs are unfinished which needs to be addressed.

## Major decisions made / actions taken

Keep the following organism groups in the following order: shellfish, finfish, crustacea, other invertebrates, seaweeds, microalgae.

Aquaculture facilities maps were created for shellfish, finfish and algae (seaweeds and microalgae). These were added to the aquaculture facilities location and description section. The previous map for France was removed.

Production time series figures were redrawn with year 2005 as the start date.

ADG has requested France and Spain to provide more information for the management framework section, to balance the national information in that section.

Additional evidence was submitted to ADG by WKBoBICAO chairs during the meeting on future projections section. ADG decided to bring in some of the evidence to the draft advice.

Data/knowledge gaps table was populated with the ecoregion information and column added for the explaining the reasons of the gaps.

Annex 1 table containing the species names (common and Latin) was added.

The deadline for providing text edits is Monday, 20th May 17:00 CET. In case of spotting any major mistakes, all ADG members should be alerted.

## Suggestions

Moving to interactive online advice would allow delivery of the fine-scale spatial aquaculture activities maps, which are available at least for some ecoregions.

Secretariat support during the EG meeting for creating ecoregion-level spatial maps for aquaculture activities would be needed.

Availability of the expertise on day-to-day industry operations at the EG meeting would be very beneficial.

## Recommendations

Consider establishing ICES Data Call for collecting data for Aquaculture Overviews. This would likely need a workshop to agree on the type of data and unit reporting (action for ASG).

Socio-economy section should be strengthened by developing a common sub-structure to be followed by all ecoregions (action for HUDISG).