DOCSLIB.ORG

PICES Scientific Report No. 26 2004 PROCEEDINGS of the THIRD

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

PICES Scientific Report No. 26 2004 PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD WORKSHOP ON THE OKHOTSK SEA AND ADJACENT AREAS Edited by Skip McKinnell September 2004 Secretariat / Publisher North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) c/o Institute of Ocean Sciences, P.O. Box 6000, Sidney, B.C., Canada. V8L 4B2 E-mail: [email protected] Home Page: http://www.pices.int TABLE OF CONTENTS Forword ....................................................................................................................................................viii SESSION 1 Evidence and Consequences of Decadal-Scale Climate Variation in the Okhotsk Sea and North-Western Pacific Ocean 1 Elena Ustinova and George Shevchenko Interannual changes of air temperature over the Okhotsk Sea and adjacent areas as the results of wavelet analysis ........................................................................................................................................1 Eugeniy Samko, S.Y. Glebova and V.M. Petruk The influence of atmospheric processes on the water circulation off the west Kamchatka coast ............7 George Shevchenko, Zhanna Tshay and Constantine Puzankov EOF and wavelet analysis of satellite SST data in the northern Pacific .................................................13 Yoshihiro Tachibana, M. Ogi, M.A. Danchenkov Does the fresh water supply from the Amur River flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk affect the decadal variation of the sea ice? .............................................................................................................19 SESSION 1 POSTERS Andrew A. Bobkov and Valery Yu. Tsepelev Anemobaric effect on the water area of the La Perouse Strait................................................................21 N.V. Grichkovskaja and V.A. Platonova Dynamics of temperature and solar shine of cold period at the coast of the Far East ............................24 Gennady V. Khen and N.S. Vanin Variability of the West-Kamchatka Current during 1995-2002 .............................................................26 Vladimir A. Luchin, I.A. Zhigalov and V.V. Plotnikov The interannual variability of the water temperature of the Okhotsk Sea ..............................................27 Aleksander A. Nikitin and A.M. Kharchenko Typification of thermal structures in the Japan Sea by satellite information..........................................30 Sergey P. Pletnev Last isolation of Kuril Island as a result of post-glacial transgression....................................................32 SESSION 2 Physical and Chemical Processes in the Okhotsk Sea and Northwestern Pacific Ocean 33 George Shevchenko, Alexander Romanov and Alexey Bobkov Definition of spatial variability of tide characteristics in Sea of Okhotsk from satellite altimetry data..........................................................................................................................................................33 Stephen C. Riser, K. Ohshima, and Y. Volkov Water masses and circulation pathways in the Okhotsk Sea observed using profiling floats.................44 Nikolay S. Vanin, Alexander P. Nedashkovskiy and Gennady V. Khen Relationships between nitrate and phosphate concentrations as a tracer of the northern Okhotsk Sea waters ...............................................................................................................................................45 Andrey Andreev, V. Chastikov, S. Gladyshev, G. Kantakov and G. Shevchenko Chemical parameter distributions in the Kuril Basin of the Okhotsk Sea in winter 2003: Role of the anticyclonic eddies............................................................................................................................47 Anatoly Salyuk, G. Winckler and G. Y. Pavlova Deep water formation in the Derugin Basin of the Sea of Okhotsk........................................................48 Sergey Gladyshev, Gennady V. Khen and Gennady A. Kantakov Interannual variability of the ventilated water masses in the Okhotsk Sea.............................................49 iii Leonid Muratov and O. Muratova Physical processes in the bottom waters and instability over trenches in the subarctic North Pacific .....................................................................................................................................................50 Vladimir N. Vologdin, Vladimir B. Darnitskiy and Gennady I. Yurasov The ρ-, T- , S- of fine structure on the P1W WOCE Section in the Okhotsk Sea in summer.................53 Valentina D. Budaeva, George V. Shevchenko, Vyacheslav G. Makarov, Gennady A. Kantakov and V.N. Chastikov Specific features of seasonal and interannual variability of water structure and circulation in Aniva Bay during 2001-2003..................................................................................................................55 Anatoly I. Alexanin and M.G. Alexanina Sea surface eddy detection on IR- satellite images under cloudy conditions .........................................64 Galina Mishukova, Vasiliy Mishukov and Anatoliy Obzhirov Methane flux in the Seas of Okhotsk and Japan .....................................................................................65 Alexey O. Maksimov “Car-jam” effect and concentration anomalies in rising bubble plumes.................................................67 Vasiliy Mishukov Aerosol research of the Okhotsk and Japan Seas area of Russia ............................................................71 SESSION 2 POSTERS Antonina M. Polyakova and S.S. Sugak Wind wave fields and swell in the Subarctic Front Zone .......................................................................75 Anatoly I. Alexanin, M.G. Alexanina, D.A. Bolovin, F.E. Herbeck, A.V. Gromov, I.I. Gorin, Y.V. Naumkin, E.V. Fomin and Y.S. Epstain Regional satellite monitoring of far east seas: Modern state and perspectives of development ............81 Pavel A. Fayman Diagnostic current calculation for the Sea Of Okhotsk ..........................................................................82 S.E. Kontorovsky Simulation of the thermohaline dynamics of the Sea of Okhotsk...........................................................86 Vladimir I. Korochentsev, V.V. Korochentsev, V.A. Kochetova, S.A. Shevkun, E.M. Titov and L.V. Gubko Calculation of the ULF (Ultra Low Frequency) electro-magnetic field parameters over the typhoon zone...........................................................................................................................................88 Leonid M. Mitnik, V.A. Dubina and I.A. Gurvich Satellite radar sensing of the Okhotsk sea ice cover: from Kosmos-1500 Real Aperture Radar toEnvisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar.......................................................................................89 Leonid M. Mitnik, V. A. Dubina, V. K. Fishchenko, M. L. Mitnik and A. V. Golik Development of ice cover in the Okhotsk Sea in 2002-2003 as viewed by Aqua AMSR-E and Envisat ASAR.........................................................................................................................................94 Leonid M. Mitnik, G. V. Shevchenko, V. A. Dubina, and Y. A. Sophienko Okhotsk Sea waters around Cape Krilion: Satellite and mooring station observations.........................98 Valentina V. Moroz Intermediate water masses of the Kuril Island zone and the adjacent areas .........................................102 George Shevchenko and Valery Chastikov Experimental study of dynamic processes in Aniva Bay, Sea of Okhotsk during fall 2002.................104 Valery Sosnin, Pavel Tishchenko and N. Biebow Diapycnal entrainment of shelf waters into intermediate depths across the Sakhalin continental slope (Sea of Okhotsk)..........................................................................................................................109 V.B. Tjurnin Application of independent gauges of temperature of model “Pirate - 2000” for studying temperature conditions in a benthic layer in northern part of Sea of Okhotsk in 2002.........................112 iv Lubov N.Vasilevskaya, L.S. Muktepavel and Т.М. Tzhuravleva About the connection of ice processes of the Okhotsk and Bering Seas ..............................................114 Galina A. Vlasova and S.S. Sugak Features of the water circulation in the northwestern Pacific under influence of the atmospheric baric systems.........................................................................................................................................116 Igor Zhabin, N. Vanin and Y. Zuenko Tidal fronts in the Okhotsk Sea.............................................................................................................119 SESSION 3 Biological Variability: Evidence and Consequences 121 Alexey E. Kuzin, A. S. Perlov and E. P. Shvetsov Pinniped resources in the Okhotsk Sea.................................................................................................121 Alexei Yu. Merzlyakov Seasonal and annual dynamics of nektonic community in the western Kamchatka region..................124 Igor V. Melnikov and S.V. Loboda Interannual variation of Pacific herring stocks in the Okhotsk Sea in connection with last year’s cooling........................................................................................................................................127 Yuriy Mitrofanov and O.V. Dogadova The biological indices of wild and hatchery Pacific salmon fry of Sakhalin Island and Primorskiy region ....................................................................................................................................................132
Recommended publications
  • Star Asterias Rubens

    Star Asterias Rubens

    bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.04.425292; this version posted January 4, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. How to build a sea star V9 The development and neuronal complexity of bipinnaria larvae of the sea star Asterias rubens Hugh F. Carter*, †, Jeffrey R. Thompson*, ‡, Maurice R. Elphick§, Paola Oliveri*, ‡, 1 The first two authors contributed equally to this work *Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom †Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom ‡UCL Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution (CLOE), University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom §School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom 1Corresponding Author: [email protected], Office: (+44) 020-767 93719, Fax: (+44) 020 7679 7193 Keywords: indirect development, neuropeptides, muscle, echinoderms, neurogenesis 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.04.425292; this version posted January 4, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. How to build a sea star V9 Abstract Free-swimming planktonic larvae are a key stage in the development of many marine phyla, and studies of these organisms have contributed to our understanding of major genetic and evolutionary processes.

  • PICES Sci. Rep. No. 2, 1995

    TABLE OF CONTENTS Page FOREWORD vii Part 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1.0 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE OKHOTSK SEA AND KURIL REGION 3 1.1 Okhotsk Sea water mass modification 3 1.1.1Dense shelf water formation in the northwestern Okhotsk Sea 3 1.1.2Soya Current study 4 1.1.3East Sakhalin Current and anticyclonic Kuril Basin flow 4 1.1.4West Kamchatka Current 5 1.1.5Tides and sea level in the Okhotsk Sea 5 1.2 Influence of Okhotsk Sea waters on the subarctic Pacific and Oyashio 6 1.2.1Kuril Island strait transports (Bussol', Kruzenshtern and shallower straits) 6 1.2.2Kuril region currents: the East Kamchatka Current, the Oyashio and large eddies 7 1.2.3NPIW transport and formation rate in the Mixed Water Region 7 1.3 Sea ice analysis and forecasting 8 2.0 PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS 9 2.1 Hydrographic observations (bottle and CTD) 9 2.2 Direct current observations in the Okhotsk and Kuril region 11 2.3 Sea level measurements 12 2.4 Sea ice observations 12 2.5 Satellite observations 12 Part 2. REVIEW OF OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE OKHOTSK SEA AND OYASHIO REGION 15 1.0 GEOGRAPHY AND PECULIARITIES OF THE OKHOTSK SEA 16 2.0 SEA ICE IN THE OKHOTSK SEA 17 2.1 Sea ice observations in the Okhotsk Sea 17 2.2 Ease of ice formation in the Okhotsk Sea 17 2.3 Seasonal and interannual variations of sea ice extent 19 2.3.1Gross features of the seasonal variation in the Okhotsk Sea 19 2.3.2Sea ice thickness 19 2.3.3Polynyas and open water 19 2.3.4Interannual variability 20 2.4 Sea ice off the coast of Hokkaido 21
  • Five-Year Simdp3 (2016–2020)

    Five-Year Simdp3 (2016–2020)

    SAKHALIN INDIGENOUS MINORITIES DEVELOPMENT PLAN FIVE-YEAR SIMDP3 (2016–2020) Sakhalin-2 Project Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ACRONYMS 6 LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES 7 NOTE ON PREPARATION OF SIMDP3 8 1 ORIENTATION 10 1.1 HISTORY 10 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE THIRD SAKHALIN INDIGENOUS MINORITIES DEVELOPMENT PLAN (“SIMDP3”) 11 1.3 SIM COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT APPROACHES 11 1.3.1 PROCESS FOR OBTAINING FREE, PRIOR, AND INFORMED CONSENT (FPIC) 11 1.3.2 INFORMED CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION (ICP) 12 1.4 SAKHALIN-2 PROJECT SUMMARY 13 1.4.1 GENERAL INFORMATION 13 1.4.2 STANDARDS THAT GUIDE SAKHALIN ENERGY IN DEALING WITH SOCIAL ISSUES AND ISSUES RELATED TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 15 1.5 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVEMENT IN THE SIMDP PREPARATION 15 1.6 SCOPE OF SIMDP3 16 1.6.1 SAKHALIN-2 PROJECT SCOPE AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF THE INDIGENOUS MINORITIES SETTLEMENTS 16 1.6.2 DEFINING THE SIMDP SCOPE 16 1.6.3 RELATION OF SIMDP TO OTHER PROGRAMMES AND DOCUMENTS OF SAKHALIN ENERGY 18 2 BACKGROUND 20 2.1 LEGAL FRAMEWORK 20 2.1.1 LEGAL STATUS OF THE SAKHALIN INDIGENOUS MINORITIES 20 2.1.2 SIMDP3 COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS 22 2.1.3 COMPENSATION ISSUES RELATED TO LAND USE 24 2.2 SOCIAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAKHALIN INDIGENOUS MINORITIES 24 3 ASSESSMENT OF DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES, IMPACTS, AND RISKS 36 3.1 DESCRIPTION AND ASSESSMENT OF THE SECOND SIMDP 36 3.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE SIMDP3 PREPARATION PROCESS 39 3.2.1 DESCRIPTION OF CONSULTATIONS WITH THE SAKHALIN
  • (Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin Island): 2. Cyclopteridae−Molidae Families

    (Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin Island): 2. Cyclopteridae−Molidae Families

    ISSN 0032-9452, Journal of Ichthyology, 2018, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 633–661. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2018. An Annotated List of the Marine and Brackish-Water Ichthyofauna of Aniva Bay (Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin Island): 2. Cyclopteridae−Molidae Families Yu. V. Dyldina, *, A. M. Orlova, b, c, d, A. Ya. Velikanove, S. S. Makeevf, V. I. Romanova, and L. Hanel’g aTomsk State University (TSU), Tomsk, Russia bRussian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography (VNIRO), Moscow, Russia cInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences (IPEE), Moscow, Russia d Dagestan State University (DSU), Makhachkala, Russia eSakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (SakhNIRO), Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia fSakhalin Basin Administration for Fisheries and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources—Sakhalinrybvod, Aniva, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia gCharles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic *e-mail: [email protected] Received March 1, 2018 Abstract—The second, final part of the work contains a continuation of the annotated list of fish species found in the marine and brackish waters of Aniva Bay (southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, southern part of Sakhalin Island): 137 species belonging to three orders (Perciformes, Pleuronectiformes, Tetraodon- tiformes), 31 family, and 124 genera. The general characteristics of ichthyofauna and a review of the commer- cial fishery of the bay fish, as well as the final systematic essay, are presented. Keywords: ichthyofauna, annotated list, conservation status, commercial importance, marine and brackish waters, Aniva Bay, southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin Island DOI: 10.1134/S0032945218050053 INTRODUCTION ANNOTATED LIST OF FISHES OF ANIVA BAY The second part concludes the publication on the 19.
  • Catalogue of Exporters of Primorsky Krai № ITN/TIN Company Name Address OKVED Code Kind of Activity Country of Export 1 254308

    Catalogue of Exporters of Primorsky Krai № ITN/TIN Company Name Address OKVED Code Kind of Activity Country of Export 1 254308

    Catalogue of exporters of Primorsky krai № ITN/TIN Company name Address OKVED Code Kind of activity Country of export 690002, Primorsky KRAI, 1 2543082433 KOR GROUP LLC CITY VLADIVOSTOK, PR-T OKVED:51.38 Wholesale of other food products Vietnam OSTRYAKOVA 5G, OF. 94 690001, PRIMORSKY KRAI, 2 2536266550 LLC "SEIKO" VLADIVOSTOK, STR. OKVED:51.7 Other ratailing China TUNGUS, 17, K.1 690003, PRIMORSKY KRAI, VLADIVOSTOK, 3 2531010610 LLC "FORTUNA" OKVED: 46.9 Wholesale trade in specialized stores China STREET UPPERPORTOVA, 38- 101 690003, Primorsky Krai, Vladivostok, Other activities auxiliary related to 4 2540172745 TEK ALVADIS LLC OKVED: 52.29 Panama Verkhneportovaya street, 38, office transportation 301 p-303 p 690088, PRIMORSKY KRAI, Wholesale trade of cars and light 5 2537074970 AVTOTRADING LLC Vladivostok, Zhigura, 46 OKVED: 45.11.1 USA motor vehicles 9KV JOINT-STOCK COMPANY 690091, Primorsky KRAI, Processing and preserving of fish and 6 2504001293 HOLDING COMPANY " Vladivostok, Pologaya Street, 53, OKVED:15.2 China seafood DALMOREPRODUKT " office 308 JOINT-STOCK COMPANY 692760, Primorsky Krai, Non-scheduled air freight 7 2502018358 OKVED:62.20.2 Moldova "AVIALIFT VLADIVOSTOK" CITYARTEM, MKR-N ORBIT, 4 transport 690039, PRIMORSKY KRAI JOINT-STOCK COMPANY 8 2543127290 VLADIVOSTOK, 16A-19 KIROV OKVED:27.42 Aluminum production Japan "ANKUVER" STR. 692760, EDGE OF PRIMORSKY Activities of catering establishments KRAI, for other types of catering JOINT-STOCK COMPANY CITYARTEM, STR. VLADIMIR 9 2502040579 "AEROMAR-ДВ" SAIBEL, 41 OKVED:56.29 China Production of bread and pastry, cakes 690014, Primorsky Krai, and pastries short-term storage JOINT-STOCK COMPANY VLADIVOSTOK, STR. PEOPLE 10 2504001550 "VLADHLEB" AVENUE 29 OKVED:10.71 China JOINT-STOCK COMPANY " MINING- METALLURGICAL 692446, PRIMORSKY KRAI COMPLEX DALNEGORSK AVENUE 50 Mining and processing of lead-zinc 11 2505008358 " DALPOLIMETALL " SUMMER OCTOBER 93 OKVED:07.29.5 ore Republic of Korea 692183, PRIMORSKY KRAI KRAI, KRASNOARMEYSKIY DISTRICT, JOINT-STOCK COMPANY " P.
  • Conservation Investment Strategy for the Russian Far East AUTHORSHIP and ATTRIBUTION

    Conservation Investment Strategy for the Russian Far East AUTHORSHIP and ATTRIBUTION

    SASHA LEAHOVCENCO PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT DAVID LAWSON, WWF ELAINE R. WILSON Conservation Investment Strategy Strategy Investment Conservation EXECUTIVE SUMMARY for the Russian Far East Far for the Russian Pacific Environment Pacific 2 Conservation Investment Strategy for the Russian Far East AUTHORSHIP AND ATTRIBUTION Executive Editors: Evan Sparling (Pacific Environment) Eugene Simonov (Pacific Environment, Rivers Without Boundaries) Project Coordinating Team: Eduard Zdor (Chukotka Association of Traditional Marine Mammal Hunters) Dmitry Lisitsyn (Sakhalin Environment Watch) Anatoly Lebedev (Bureau for Regional Outreach Campaigns) Sergey Shapkhaev (Buryat Regional Association for Baikal) Peer Review Group: Alan Holt (Margaret A. Cargill Foundation) David Gordon (Goldman Environmental Prize) Xanthippe Augerot (Pangaea Environmental LLC.) Peter Riggs (Pivot Point) Jack Tordoff (Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund) Dmitry Lisitsyn (Sakhalin Environment Watch) Conservation Planning Expert: Nicole Portley (Sustainable Fisheries Partnership) Writing and Design: John Byrne Barry Additional Writing and Translating: Sonya Kleshik Special thanks to the following for their contributions to this assessment: Marina Rikhvanova (Baikal Environment Wave), Maksim Chakilev, Yuri Khokhlov, Anatoly Kochnev (Chukotka Branch of the Pacific Ocean Institute for Fisheries and Oceanography), Natalya Shevchenko (Chukotka Regional Department of the Environment (retired)), Oleg Goroshko (Daursky Biosphere Reserve), Elena Tvorogova (Foundation for Revival of Siberian
  • Marine Stewardship Council Iturup Pink & Chum Salmon Fisheries

    Marine Stewardship Council Iturup Pink & Chum Salmon Fisheries

    Marine Stewardship Council Iturup Pink & Chum Salmon Fisheries Expedited Assessment for the Addition of Purse Seine Gear Public Certification Report November 3, 2017 Evaluation Prepared for J.S.C. Gidrostroy Evaluation Prepared by Mr. Ray Beamesderfer, Team Leader, Principles 1 & 3 Mrs. Jennifer Humberstone, Principle 2 [BLANK] CONTENTS 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................... 5 2 AUTHORSHIP & PEER REVIEWERS ........................................................................... 8 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE FISHERY ................................................................................ 9 3.1 Unit(s) of Certification & Scope of Certification Sought .................................................. 9 3.1.1 UoA and Unit of Certification (UoC) - FINAL...................................................................... 9 3.1.2 Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and Catch Data .................................................................. 10 3.1.3 Scope of Assessment in Relation to Enhanced Fisheries ................................................. 11 3.2 Overview of the Fishery ................................................................................................. 12 3.2.1 Area Description .............................................................................................................. 12 3.2.2 Fishing Method ............................................................................................................... 12 3.2.3 Enhancement .................................................................................................................
  • Impacts of Sakhalin II Phase 2 on Western North Pacific Gray Whales and Related Biodiversity

    Impacts of Sakhalin II Phase 2 on Western North Pacific Gray Whales and Related Biodiversity

    Impacts of Sakhalin II Phase 2 on Western North Pacific Gray Whales and Related Biodiversity Report of the Independent Scientific Review Panel PANEL COMPOSITION Randall R. Reeves (Chairman) Robert L. Brownell, Jr. Timothy J. Ragen Co-opted Contributors: Alexander Burdin Richard G. Steiner John Harwood Justin G. Cooke Glenn R. VanBlaricom David W. Weller James D. Darling Alexander Vedenev Gregory P. Donovan Alexey V. Yablokov Frances M. D. Gulland Sue E. Moore Douglas P. Nowacek ISRP REPORT: IMPACTS OF SAKHALIN II PHASE 2 ON WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC GRAY WHALES Report of the Independent Scientific Review Panel on the Impacts of Sakhalin II Phase 2 on Western North Pacific Gray Whales and Related Biodiversity CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY..............................................................................................................................................................3 1 BACKGROUND................................................................................................................................................................3 2 OVERALL CONCLUSIONS.............................................................................................................................................3 3 REVIEW OF INDIVIDUAL THREATS AND PROPOSED MEASURES ......................................................................5 4 INFORMATION GAPS AND ESSENTIAL MONITORING...........................................................................................7 5 THE NEED FOR A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY TO SAVE WESTERN GRAY WHALES
  • Fisheries Update for Monday August 26, 2019 Groundfish Harvests

    Fisheries Update for Monday August 26, 2019 Groundfish Harvests

    Fisheries Update for Monday August 26, 2019 Groundfish Harvests through 8/17/2019, IFQ Halibut/Sablefish & Crab Harvests through 8/26/2019 Fishing activity in the Bering Sea /Aleutian Islands A season Groundfish Fisheries for the week ending on August 17, 2019, last week's Pollock harvest slowed down with an 8,000MT reduction from the previous week. The Pollock 8 season harvest is 60% completed thru last week. Last week's B season Pollock harvest came in at 48, 126MT fishing has .slowed down last week. The total groundfish harvest last week was 58,255MT (130million pounds). We are seeing increased effort in the Aleutian Islands on Pacific Ocean Perch last week's harvest of 1 ,938MT and Atka mackerel1 ,816MT. Halibut and Sablefish harvest statewide continues to see increased harvests, The Halibut harvest is 11.8 million pounds harvested 67% of the allocation has been taken. The Sablefish IFQ harvest is at 13.8 million pounds landed, the season is 53% of the allocation has been completed; Unalaska has had 46 landings for 820, 1171bs of Sablefish. Aleutian Island Golden King Crab allocation opened on July 15th with and allocation of 7.1 million pounds we have 4 vessels registered to fish the allocation. The Eastern District allocation is set at 4.4 million pounds and has had 7 landing for and estimated total of 600,000 to 800,000 harvested. The Western District at 2.7 million pounds there have been 5 landings for and estimated 200,000 to 250,0001bs harvested. For the week ending August 17, 2019 the Groundfish landings, showed a harvest of 58,255MT landed (130million pounds) most of last week's harvest was Pollock 48, 126MT (107 million pounds).
  • Geoexpro 5 6.05 Omslag

    Geoexpro 5 6.05 Omslag

    EXPLORATION Multi-client seismic spurs interest The Northeast Sakhalin Shelf,with several giant fields already discovered and put on production,is recognised as a world-class petroleum province.New seismic acquired in the rest of the Sea of Okhotsk indicate that there is more to be found. Dalmorneftegeofizica Courtesy of TGS has acquired a huge seismic data base covering almost the entire Sea of Okhotsk. New, modern data is now made available through a cooperati- on with TGS Nopec. Photo: Erling Frantzen Courtesy of TGS BP/Rosneft Pela Lache OKHA SAKHALIN Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk The Sea of Okhotsk is named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East. It is the northwest arm of the Pacific Ocean covering an area of 1,528,000 sq km, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido belonging to Japan to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coastline along the west and north. Most of the Sea of Okhotsk, except for the area around the Kuril Islands, is frozen during from November to June and has frequent heavy fogs. In the summer, the icebergs melt and the sea becomes navigable again. The sea is generally less than 1,500m deep; its deepest point, near the Kuriles, is 3,363 m. Fishing and crab- bing are carried on off W Kamchatka peninsula. The DMNG/TGS Seismic acquired in 1998, 2004 and 2005 is shown in green, blue and red colours. Note also the location of Okha where oil seeps were found 125 years ago.
  • Western Bering Sea Pacific Cod and Pacific Halibut Longline

    Western Bering Sea Pacific Cod and Pacific Halibut Longline

    MSC Sustainable Fisheries Certification Western Bering Sea Pacific cod and Pacific halibut longline Public Consultation Draft Report – August 2019 Longline Fishery Association Assessment Team: Dmitry Lajus, Daria Safronova, Aleksei Orlov, Rob Blyth-Skyrme Document: MSC Full Assessment Reporting Template V2.0 page 1 Date of issue: 8 October 2014 © Marine Stewardship Council, 2014 Contents Table of Tables ..................................................................................................................... 5 Table of Figures .................................................................................................................... 7 Glossary.............................................................................................................................. 10 1 Executive Summary ..................................................................................................... 12 2 Authorship and Peer Reviewers ................................................................................... 14 2.1 Use of the Risk-Based Framework (RBF): ............................................................ 15 2.2 Peer Reviewers .................................................................................................... 15 3 Description of the Fishery ............................................................................................ 16 3.1 Unit(s) of Assessment (UoA) and Scope of Certification Sought ........................... 16 3.1.1 UoA and Proposed Unit of Certification (UoC) ..............................................
  • Structure and Assessment of Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus Leucas, Populations in the Russian Far East

    Structure and Assessment of Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus Leucas, Populations in the Russian Far East

    Structure and Assessment of Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus leucas, Populations in the Russian Far East OLGA V. SHPAK, ILYA G. MESCHERSKY, DMITRY M. GLAZOV, DENIS I. LITOVKA, DARIA M. KUZNETSOVA and VIATCHESLAV V. ROZHNOV Introduction Far-Eastern waters were recognized: of marine resources in Russia, includ- Western Chukchi-East Siberian Sea ing belugas, is not based on the spe- In the Russian Far East, the belu- (stock no. 25), Anadyr Gulf (26); She- cies population structure, but rather on ga, Delphinapterus leucas, or white likhov (27); Sakhalin-Amur (28), and geographically defined fishing zones. whale, occurs in the Okhotsk Sea and Shantar (29). The delineation of Stock Our studies in the Okhotsk Sea have along the coastline of the Chukotka 25 was questioned by some experts, led to the Russian Federal Agency of Autonomous Region in the western who, based on satellite tracking data, Fisheries and the Ministry of Agricul- Bering, western Chukchi, and eastern suggested belugas migrating along ture recognizing the necessity to con- East Siberian seas (Fig. 1). From late Chukotka Peninsula coast belonged sider stock distribution when issuing 1920’s to the dissolution of the So- to United States or Canadian stocks total allowable takes (TAT) in this re- viet Union in 1991, Soviet scientists (i.e., Eastern Bering Sea (stock no. 3), gion (Ministry of Agriculture, Order conducted extensive studies on this Eastern Chukchi Sea (4), or Beaufort N 533, 27 October 2017). An updated species’ abundance and distribution, Sea (or Eastern Beaufort) (5)). For assessment of beluga population struc- mainly because belugas were hunt- stocks 25 and 26, no abundance esti- ture would be important for effective ed commercially (Kleinenberg et al., mates were provided, and the Okhotsk and sustainable management.