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Technical Report 11

First NPAFC-IYS Workshop on Pacific Salmon Production in a Changing Climate

Technical Editors:
Jeongseok Park and Stephanie Taylor

Preface:
The International Year of the Salmon (IYS) is an international framework for collaborative outreach and research, and seeks to increase understanding and raise awareness of the challenges facing salmon and the measures to support their conservation and restoration against increasing environmental variability. The overarching theme of the IYS is “Salmon and People in a Changing World”, and the proposed research themes are (1) status of salmon; (2) salmon in a changing salmosphere (the current and future geographic range of salmon); (3) new frontiers: (4) human dimension; and (5) information systems. These five research themes are integrated into the current NPAFC Science Plan (2016–2020), whose goal is to understand variations in Pacific salmon production in a changing climate (https://npafc.org/scienceplan/). The North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) hosted the First NPAFC-IYS
Workshop on “Pacific Salmon Production in a Changing Climate” on May 26–27, 2018 at the Boutique Hotel, Khabarovsk, Russia.

The workshop was attended by over 60 international salmon experts and scientists. Workshop participants presented 26 oral presentations and eight posters addressing the following topics related to the IYS research themes:

    • Status of Pacific salmon and steelhead trout
    • Pacific salmon and steelhead trout in a changing North Pacific Ocean
    • New technologies
    • Management systems
    • Integrated information systems

At the workshop participants shared and reviewed knowledge of the distribution, growth and survival of Pacific salmon in the ocean; review the causes of variations in Pacific salmon production; anticipate future changes in the production of Pacific salmon and the marine ecosystems producing them; and identify research priorities and international cooperative research plans for the IYS initiative.

The Workshop Organizing Committee consisted of Alexander Bugaev (Co-Chairperson; Kamchatka Fishery and Oceanography Research Institute, Russia), Ed Farley, Jr. (Auke Bay Laboratories, Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute, NMFS, USA), Jim Irvine (Pacific Biological Station, DFO, Canada), Ju Kyoung Kim (Inland Life Resources Center, FIRA, Korea), Denis Kotsyuk (Khabarovsk Department, TINRO-Center, Russia), Svetlana Naydenko (Pacific Scientific Research Fisheries Center, TINROCenter, Russia), Mark Saunders (International Year of the Salmon (IYS) North Pacific Steering Committee, Canada), Shigehiko Urawa (Co-Chairperson; Hokkaido National Fisheries Research Institute, FRA, Japan), and Jeongseok Park (NPAFC Secretariat).

The following workshop topic chairs led discussion during the workshop: Jim Irvine, Nataliya Klovach, Alexander Bugaev, Ed Farley, Jr., Suam Kim, Svetlana Naydenko, and Mark Saunders.

On behalf of the Workshop Organizing Committee, we thank all presenters and participants for sharing information and addressing the topics related to the IYS research themes at the workshop and for submitting materials for this volume.

Technical Report No. 11 is a compilation of extended abstracts submitted by workshop presenters, and it concludes with a wrap-up summary and research priorities identified at the workshop. Material in this report has not been peer-reviewed and does not necessarily reflect the views of NPAFC, member countries, or authors’ agencies. I thank Stephanie Taylor (2018 NPAFC Intern) for the help of editing the extended abstracts. Abstracts have been edited for clarity and publication purposes.

Jeongseok Park
Deputy Director, NPAFC

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23849/npafctr11

Citation

Park, J., and S. Taylor (Editors).  2018.  First NPAFC-IYS workshop on Pacific salmon production in a changing climate.  N. Pac. Anadr. Fish Comm. Tech. Rep. 11.  140 pp.  https://doi.org/10.23849/npafctr11