Working Group on Salmon Marking
The Working Group on Salmon Marking was established in 1998 on ad hoc basis
and was changed to a full working group in 1999. This working group is a forum
for exchanging otolith mark plans and works to reduce mark conflicts and duplicate
marks. This group manages the otolith mark library and database (housed at
Alaska Department of Fish and Game).
WGSM Terms of Reference
View additional information on working group website
Chairperson: D. Oxman (USA)
Members:
Canada: A. Tompkins
Japan: Y. Okamoto, S. Sato, S. Urawa
Korea:
K.E. Hong, J.K. Kim
Russia: E. Akinicheva,
V. Volobuev
USA: R. Josephson, D. Oxman
Working Group on Stock Identification
The Working Group on Stock Identification was established in 1999 on an ad
hoc basis and was changed to a full working group in 2011. Its goals are to develop, standardize, and disseminate genetic and other databases among the Parties, to encourage the development of new genetic technologies, and to facilitate the dissemination of statistical techniques.
Instruction of sampling salmon tissues for DNA stock identification:
Download (PDF, 119 KB)Chairperson:
J. Guyon (USA)
Members:
Canada: T. Beacham, M. Saunders
Japan: S. Sato, S. Urawa
Korea: K.E. Hong, J.K.
Kim, M.G. Yoon
Russia: A. Bugaev, A. Khrustaleva
USA: L. Seeb,
J. Guyon, W. Templin, S. Young
BASIS Working Group
(Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey)
The BASIS Working Group was established in 2001. Its task is to coordinate
individual national BASIS research plans, draft an annual implementation
plan, summarize BASIS results in an annual report, and prepare proposals for
external funding.
BASIS
WG Terms of Reference
Chairperson: E. Farley (USA)
Members:
Canada: R. Beamish, M. Trudel
Japan: T. Azumaya,
K. Morita, T. Nagasawa, S. Sato
Korea:
K.E. Hong, J.K. Kim
Russia: O. Temnykh, A.
Zavolokin
USA: E. Farley, J. Moss, K. Myers, J. Seeb,
S. Young
Working Group on Salmon Tagging
The Working Group on Salmon Tagging (WGST) was established in 2007 to manage the INPFC-NPAFC salmon tagging and recovery database and to coordinate high seas tagging
experiments. The INPFC and NPAFC
member nations conducted salmon tagging experiments in high seas areas
