areas of HAB science and monitoring and provides a forum for the interchange of various approaches to this research. WGHABD's efforts with the ICES-PICESHarmful Algal Event database (HAEDAT) shows the distribution of harmful algal events since the mid1980s within ICES area and places these data in the public domain where they can be used by the scientific community. HAEDAT products were presented at the meeting and received much interest as a format for presenting “risk maps” for the marine environment. These products are a key component of ICES Harmful Algal Event Status Report and will contribute to the IOC Global HAB Status Report. WGHABD has also focussed on other areas of interest such as Arctic HABs and emerging risks such as ciguatera fish poisoning, which is both a health risk and food security issue. Mission Atlantic, a project under the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme, launched in 2020, will be the first initiative to develop and systematically apply integrated ecosystem assessments (IEAs) at Atlantic basin scale. ICES has joined with ocean experts from
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Europe, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, and the USA to map, model, and assess Atlantic Ocean ecosystems and to improve professional skills and competences across the Atlantic in support of IEA approaches to ocean resource management. ICES Data Centre, working with ICES/NAFO Working Group on Deep-water ecology (WGDEC) has developed a comprehensive dataset of VMEs and VME indicators for the North Atlantic and, within the context of Mission Atlantic, plans to extend the dataset into the South Atlantic. Launched in 2020, HELCOM’s Baltic Data Flows project, “seeks to enhance the sharing and harmonization of data on marine environment originating from existing sea monitoring programmes, and to move towards service-based data sharing”. As a project partner, we will upgrade our Oceanographic data portal to ease interoperability and data exchange with other national and international systems. By 2023, ICES will make regional sea assessment data products FAIR, and will further develop data processing and software used