Aquatic Living Resources warmly welcomes Nicolas Bez as new co-Editor-in-Chief
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- Published on 11 June 2025
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Nicolas Bez, a research scientist at the French Research Institute for Development (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - IRD) as new Editor-in-Chief of Aquatic Living Resources.
Nicolas is a specialist in spatial statistics in fisheries sciences, notably using all kind of direct scientific observations (acoustic, trawl, GPS, CUFES, satellite, etc). He graduated in fisheries sciences (1991) and got a PhD in geostatistics at the School of Mines in Paris (1997) and spent few years there as a researcher involved in European projects using design-based and model-based approaches in fisheries science. He moved to IRD in 2004 where he has been developing new skills in movement ecology and graphs theory. He is member of the board of the French Fisheries Society (Association Française d’Halieutique – AFH) since its creation in 1994.
Nicolas joins the current team of Editors-in-Chief: Pierre Boudry, research scientist at the Department Biological resources and Environement (RBE) French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer); and Olivier Thébaud research scientist at the French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) and Director of the joint research unit AMURE – Centre for the Law and Economics of the Sea.
“Nicolas’ appointment as co-Editor-in-Chief of Aquatic Living Resources strengthens an already robust editorial leadership team boasting many years of expertise in the discipline.” Comments Aliénor Decours-Perez, Publisher, EDP Sciences. “We wish him the warmest welcome and are confident that he will bring fresh perspectives that contribute to the ongoing growth of the journal and, more importantly, the broad, equitable dissemination of research in the discipline.”
The team warmly thanks Verena Trenkel and François Le Loc’h for their key contribution as co-Editors-in-Chief since 2016, in expanding the scope of ALR to fully embracing Ecosystem-Based Management, and in supporting the development of journal.
About Aquatic Living Resources
Aquatic Living Resources publishes original research papers, review articles and prospective notes dealing with ecosystem-based approaches to the study of fishery and aquaculture social-ecological systems, including biological, ecological, economic and social dimensions.
Aquatic Living Resources is a “Diamond” Open access journal; all papers are freely available without subscription or publication fees for authors as it is sponsored by Ifremer and IRD. Any other institution interested in sponsoring the journal, supporting truly equitable access to this critical research, is welcomed.
Read more about the decision to transition the journal to “Diamond” open access here.