Following an intense week with a symposium in which 105 scientists participated and a session with 15 Member countries, the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC)adopted for the first time resolutions and recommendations on inland fisheries and aquaculture.

These included four resolutions on the Code of Conduct for Recreational Fisheries and Invasive Alien Species, the protection of vulnerable and endangered fish species from unsustainable predation from cormorants, small-scale fisheries, and aquaculture, as well as a recommendation on the EIFAAC Code of Practice for Recreational Fisheries.

The Thirty-first Session of the Commission was preceded by the EIFAAC International Symposium on “Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture – Advances in technology, stock assessment, and citizen science in an era of climate change,” held from 20–21 June in Killarney, Ireland. The highly attended symposium gathered participants from 14 countries to discuss the current issues of inland fish stock assessment, freshwater fish monitoring technologies, climate change and its impacts on inland aquatic resources and fisheries, citizen science, and recirculation aquaculture systems.