Science - North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission




	General Information

	Science Sub-Committee

	Working Groups

	Science Plan 2011-2015

	BASIS

	Species

	Fish Tag Recovery

	Otolith Marking

	Statistics

	Status of Stocks

	Scientific Agencies

	Special Funding

	Research Vessels

	RPCG Meetings

	Sampling for DNA



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Working Groups

There are now five working groups including one ad hoc working group:

Working Group on Stock Assessment
Working Group on Salmon Marking
Working Group on Stock Identification
BASIS Working Group
Working Group on Salmon Tagging

Working Group on Stock Assessment

The Working Group on Stock Assessment was established in 1995 to coordinate statistics and data analysis for assessments of Salmonid Stock Status.

Co-Chairperson: J. Irvine (Canada), E. Volk (USA)

      Members:
      Canada: J. Irvine, A. Tompkins
      Japan: T. Saito
      Korea: J.K. Kim, K.B. Seong
      Russia: N. Klovach
      USA: H. Bartlett, E. Volk

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 thermal-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).

View additional information on working group website

Chairperson: D. Oxman (USA)

      Members:
      Canada: A. Tompkins
      Japan: T. Ohnuki, S. Sato, S. Urawa
      Korea: J.K. Kim, K.B. Seong
      Russia: E. Akinicheva, V. Volobuev
      USA: H. Bartlett, 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: J.K. Kim, K.B. Seong
      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.

Chairperson: E. Farley (USA)

      Members:
      Canada: R. Beamish, M. Trudel
      Japan: T. Azumaya, K. Morita, T. Nagasawa, S. Sato
      Korea: J.K. Kim, K.B. Seong
      Russia: M. Koval, V. Shuntov, O. Temnykh
      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 area of the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas since the 1950s to investigate the ocean distribution and migration of salmon stocks. The salmon tagging and recovery database, which resulted from international cooperative research activities, can be useful towards conserving salmon stocks in the North Pacific ecosystem and linking population dynamics of salmon stocks with the ecosystem structure and function of the North Pacific.

Chairperson: S. Urawa (Japan)

      Members:
      Canada: M. Saunders
      Japan: T. Nagasawa, S. Urawa
      Korea: J.K. Kim, K.B. Seong
      Russia: M. Koval, A. Starovoytov
      USA: W. Heard, R. Walker