Full Annual Report 1999

NORTH PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ORGANIZATION (PICES) ANNUAL REPORT EIGHTH MEETING VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA OCTOBER 8 - 17, 1999 January 2000 Secretariat / Publisher North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) c/o Institute of Ocean Sciences P.O. Box 6000, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. V8L 4B2 e-mail: [email protected] web: http://pices.ios.bc.ca TABLE OF CONTENTS W X Page Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting Agenda 3 Report of Opening Session 5 Report of Governing Council Meetings 25 Reports of Science Board and Committees Science Board 45 Biological Oceanography Committee 57 Fishery Science Committee 63 Working Group 12: Crabs and Shrimps 67 Marine Environmental Quality Committee 73 Working Group 8: Practical Assessment Methodology 76 Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee 93 Working Group 13: CO2 in the North Pacific 97 Implementation Panel on the CCCC Program 105 Technological Committee on Data Exchange 117 Publication Committee 123 Finance and Administration Report of Finance and Administration Committee 127 Assets on 31st of December, 1998 132 Income and Expenditures for 1998 133 Budget for 2000 136 Composition of the Organization Officers, Delegates, Finance and Administration Committee, Science Board, Secretariat, Scientific and Technical Committees 139 List of Participants 149 List of Acronyms 171 iii REPORT OF OPENING SESSION W X The Opening Session was called to order at 8:30 scientists increase. Also of paramount importance th am on of October 11 . The Chairman, Dr. is research of both ecosystems and the prediction Hyung-Tack Huh, who welcomed delegates, of environmental long term changes. observers and researchers to the Eighth Annual Meeting. Dr. Huh called upon Vice-Governor The changes occurring in the resource structure of Vladimir A. Stegny to welcome participants on the fishery cannot but strongly influence the behalf of the Government of the Prymorye conditions of fisheries management. First and Region. foremost, these changes depend on the environment, and joint scientific efforts in the area Dear Mr. Chairman, Executive Secretary, of marine studies are difficult to overestimate. In distinguished delegates, members of the this respect PICES is a unique international Secretariat and Local Organizing Committee, organization of scientists with unprecedented participants, observers, ladies and gentlemen: capabilities to accumulate scientific knowledge in the largest range of events observed in the Pacific, It is the first time that Russia is hosting an annual and the results of anthropogenic pressure on the meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science marine environment. Organization. The City of Vladivostok, the Primorski Krai capital, is the venue of the Eighth I would like to emphasize the following: PICES is Annual Meeting. On behalf of the Russian Far represented by both the governments and East, let me welcome you to the Pacific Russia. scientific organizations of the Pacific Rim countries with very different levels of ethnic, It is a great honor for Vladivostok and the entire cultural and economic backgrounds. This last Primorski Krai to host the Eighth Annual Meeting factor is very valuable in the light of different attended by such a large number of participants approaches towards ocean investigation and from the scientific communities of the Pacific Rim development, since the number of aspects to be countries. considered while planning the ocean management in the interests of mankind is increased. And the Fisheries and marine transport are by far the most intermixing of various viewpoints mutually important sectors of the Russian Far East enriches the parties through cooperation. economy. Work at sea creates jobs, thus providing for considerable employment for the No doubt, the World Ocean is a unifying area for population. The Far East fisheries account for making our scientific effort worthwhile. Methods more than 70% of Russian catches. The and techniques of scientific investigations, those maximum catch was observed in 1988, which instruments for carrying out marine research, are could be explained by a very high abundance of gradually being standardized. This is also two particular species - pollock and sardine. In important because the results of scientific studies 1993-94 the catch was at its minimum. That was will be equally shared by all PICES member due to the sardine disappearance in the Russian countries. Moreover, of no less importance are waters and to the pollock population drop. These the national identities and traditions of each and two species alone - pollock and sardine - in the every State involved, of scientific schools and years of their maximal abundance, accounted for particular results of research obtained. 66% and 17% of the catch in the Russian Far East Recognizing this fact will surely make the mutual respectively. Only two species predominance in understanding easier, and this is one of the main the catches makes Far East fishery very objectives of any international organization. vulnerable, and as a result the responsibility of PICES should not be an exception. 5 Why have we picked Vladivostok of all the cities Pacific”, “Modelling and Forecasting Physical as the venue of PICES Eighth Annual Meeting? Processes in Subarctic Region of the North It is because this city in the Pacific Russia is most Pacific”, “Ecological Consequences of Oil Spills representative in the areas of research with and Oil Deposits Development”, etc. The last concentrated science and technology potential in subject is very relevant for the Sakhalin region the Far East. It meets the demands of national with its unprecedented potential for Russian economy of the Russian Far Eastern regions. At offshore oil extraction. No doubt, it will be very the same time Vladivostok is one of the youngest difficult here to strike a balance of interests among Russian cities in the Pacific. By founding the port ecological movements, fishermen and oil Vladivostok, father-founders put an end to a developers. In this respect, we should follow a remarkable historic epoch of great geographic strictly scientific and independent analysis and discoveries and development, when the Russian evaluate comparative advantages versus negative pioneers discovered new territories along the consequences of this gigantic project. Profit of coastline of the Pacific in the 18th and 19th the Sakhalin Oblast and foreign investors of the centuries, including the Okhotsk Sea coast, oil development project are put on the scale Kamchatka, the Kuril Ridge, Sakhalin, and Alaska. against the impact of inevitable pollution of the sea on marine ecosystems resulting thus in losses Glorious traditions of Russian researchers of the for both the Russian fishermen and those of the Pacific and World Oceans were upheld in the 20th neighboring countries in the regions. century. The contribution of Russian fisheries science to the World Ocean and its bioresources On the threshold of the new millennium with an research has been especially great: the last century extremely high level of human activity, it has has witnessed years when scientific investigations become even more difficult to preserve harmony had covered 70% of the marine basins in the open of relations between man and nature. Nature can areas of the World Ocean. very easily destroyed as a result of rash actions undertaken by man for his selfish, and as a rule Despite the economic difficulties, marine studies short-term, purposes aimed at making nature look are underway today in the Far East. One should “more culture-oriented”. One cannot stop all the emphasize the farsighted policy of the TINRO- economic activities including those in the World Center administrators who, during the years of Ocean. We should go on with these activities but reforms in Russia, managed both to retain the they should be preceded by painstaking research research fleet, to continue the growth of its to evaluate possible consequences as well as numbers, and improve its technical and scientific possible economic benefits. equipment. Fifteen research vessels of different profiles enable the Center to constantly monitor I am sure that in this respect PICES will open a marine bioresources and to study the lot of new opportunities for both the scientists environment. The scientists record global changes and those responsible for political and economic of the environment parameters, which decision-making based on rigorous scientific considerably influence the number and knowledge. PICES also means unlimited distribution of marine inhabitants and change the opportunities for mutually beneficial scientific conditions of economic management in the cooperation, exchange of latest information and Ocean. scientific knowledge dissemination. In this respect of great importance to us is the Hopefully, the present Meeting will make a participation of Russian scientists in such considerable contribution to solving the problems International Programs on ecosystems research as facing the organization. I would like to wish “GLOBEC”, in scientific symposia and working successful work to all the participants of the meetings on “Nature and the Impact of Climatic Annual Meeting, and have no doubts that your and Oceanological Epochs Changes on the North scientific findings will find practical 6 implementation. Thank you for the attention. scientific institution or even country. It is by joint research of all the countries interested in intensive Dr. Huh thanked the Vice-Governor and asked studies of the Ocean that we can reach

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