Yves Reecht

I am a researcher in fisheries science presently working on demersal fish stock assessment and monitoring in the North Sea.

Since 2019 I have built up experience in analytical stock assessment (stock assessor for North Sea saithe), but also have experience in data-limited methods acquired while working on shellfish stock assessment and management in Ireland (2015-2019), with a particular attention and enthusiasm for size-based methods and Bayesian frameworks. I also developed an interest in survey design and analysis (which provided me with experience in geostatistics).

From my postdoctoral experiences, I have also developed experience in topics related to (i) Marine Spatial Planning, and MPA networks analysis and design, such as indicator-based monitoring of MPAs or methodological developments for the inclusion of fishing activities in a MSP framework involving MPAs, and (ii) processing and analysis of fisheries dependent data (e.g. answering EU VMS-logbook data calls).

I am now the “stock responsible” person at the IMR for saithe (ICES stock coordinator and assessor as well), haddock and whiting in the North Sea and Skagerrak, as well as wolffish species around Norway. I am also involved in the coordination and realization of acoustic surveys for monitoring demersal fish stocks (saithe in particular) in the North Sea.