2023 Report of the Advisory Panel on Marine Non-indigenous Species

Concurrently, in late August, at the request of the PICES Secretariat, a virtual pre-meeting was added to the draft Agenda for mid-September 2023 and the draft agenda was finalized (Endnote 2). [...] Thus, AP-NIS agreed that the ICES Viewpoint was a valuable scientific contribution with applications beyond just the ICES community and agreed to review the document when ready and contribute to the development of the more in-depth supporting document with a goal to ensure more recent advancements in Asia are captured. [...] At the first AP-NIS business meeting at PICES-2017 in Vladivostok, discussions started on the most appropriate database to exchange such information and at PICES-2018 in Yokohama, members agreed that the ICES-sponsored database AquaNIS would be preferred, in part due to the long history of collaboration on marine science issues between PICES and ICES, including on NIS. [...] Thus, under new business (Agenda Item 22) he outlined the strategy and the next steps which would be for AP-NIS members to contribute to the development of the fact sheet for AP-NIS. [...] From aquaculture imports to commercial shipping to the catastrophic consequences of the Great East Japan Tsunami, there are many examples of NIS movements between the eastern and western Pacific and between the Pacific and all world oceans.