North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission

Technical Report 17

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The International Year of the Salmon Pan-Pacific High Seas Expedition 2022

Authors: 
Caroline Graham, Stephanie Taylor, Vladimir Radchenko, Evgeny Pakhomov, Ed Farley, Laurie Weitkamp, Dick Beamish, Brian Riddell, Jackie King, Chrys Neville, Shunpei Sato, Shigehiko Urawa, Aleksey Somov, Aleksandr Starovoytov, Sang-Seon Yun, Erika Anderson, Tim van der Stap, and Mark Saunders

Abstract Excerpt:
Pacific salmon are an important cultural, commercial, and biological resource for countries of the North Pacific Rim. Salmon and the people that depend on them are faced with increasing uncertainty as climate and ecosystems undergo significant changes with serious social and ecological implications. As conditions become more variable and salmon returns become more unpredictable, the need to understand factors affecting salmon during all life history stages intensifies. Winter is the least studied and thus least understood period in the life history of Pacific salmon (Myers et al. 2016). As part of the International Year of the Salmon (IYS), the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) with its five member countries (Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States) is planning a Pan-North Pacific high seas research expedition in late winter 2022 to build upon two related IYS international expeditions, which were conducted in the Gulf of Alaska during the winter of 2019 and 2020 (Pakhomov et al. 2019; Somov et al. 2020). Given the challenges of completing an international survey during the pandemic, the difficult decision was made to postpone the multi-
vessel research expedition from early 2021 to the winter of 2022.

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23849/npafctr17/72.73.

Citation

Graham, C., S. Taylor, V. Radchenko, E. Pakhomov, E. Farley, L. Weitkamp, D. Beamish, B. Riddell, J. King, C. Neville, S. Sato, S. Urawa, A. Somov, A. Starovoytov, S. Yun, E. Anderson, T. van der Stap, and M. Saunders.  2021.  The International Year of the Salmon Pan-Pacific High Seas Expedition 2022.  N. Pac. Anadr. Fish Comm. Tech. Rep. 17: 72–73.  https://doi.org/10.23849/npafctr17/72.73.