- Melanie Austen, WG Chair, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML, UK
- Peder Andersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Claire Armstrong, University of Tromsø, Norway
- Ralf Döring, TI-Institute of Sea Fisheries, Germany
- Stephen Hynes, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Harold Levrel, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France
- Adriana Resurreição, University of the Azores, Portugal
- Soile Kulmala, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland