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Frontmatter Final.Qxd 5-14 Committee Rept final:5-9 Committee Rept 11/8/08 6:11 PM Page 5 COMMITTEE REPORT CalCOFI Rep., Vol. 49, 2008 Part I REPORTS, REVIEW, AND PUBLICATIONS REPORT OF THE CALCOFI COMMITTEE NOAA HIGHLIGHTS The David Starr Jordan will conduct operations in the Southern California Bight in San Diego and stations CalCOFI Cruises from Point Conception north to San Francisco, Cali- The CalCOFI program completed its fifty-eighth year fornia. The Miller Freeman will synoptically conduct sim - with four successful quarterly cruises. All four cruises ilar operations over the northern section of the CCE, were manned by personnel from both the NOAA in Port Townsend, Washington, and south to San Fran- Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) cisco. An additional California Current Ecosystem sur - and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). The fall vey will be conducted in July 2008. 2007 cruise was conducted on the SIO RV New Horizon and covered the southern lines of the CalCOFI pattern. CalCOFI Ichthyoplankton Update The winter and spring 2007 cruises were conducted on The SWFSC Ichthyoplankton Ecology group made the NOAA RV David Starr Jordan . The Jordan covered progress on a multi-year project to update larval fish lines 93 to line 60 just north of San Francisco. The sum - identifications to current standards from 1951 to the pre - mer 2007 cruise was on the SIO RV New Horizon , and sent, which will ultimately provide taxonomic consis - covered the standard CalCOFI pattern. tency throughout the CalCOFI ichthyoplankton time Standard CalCOFI protocols were followed during series. The group updated samples collected during the the four quarterly cruises. Over the year a total of 288 first nine months of 1969 and from 1972 to the present. bongo tows, 266 manta tows, 212 pairovet tows, and 301 In addition, the group has begun re-identifying fish eggs CTD casts were conducted. In addition to the usual collected in the CalCOFI bongo net samples, and is CTD casts and net tows, measurements were collected adding the count data for eggs of Pacific whiting (hake, on a variety of other parameters including, but not lim - Merluccius productus ) and jack ( Trachurus symmetricus ) and ited to, primary productivity, salinity, dissolved oxygen, Pacific mackerels ( Scomber australasicus ) to the database. acoustics, and weather. Both seabird and marine mam - Re-identifications have been completed for samples col - mal observers also collected data on each cruise. lected from 1992 to the present and the group will con - tinue to work back through the time series. California Current Ecosystem Surveys During 2007 larval fish abundance continued to de - In 2008 the Fisheries Resources Division of the cline from the 2005 peak, to about 59% of the 2006 Southwest Fisheries Science Center plans on conduct - average abundance, and 30% of the 2005 average abun - ing two coast-wide California Current Ecosystem (CCE) dance. Northern anchovy ( Engraulis mordax ) larvae, the Surveys. The first is scheduled to run 24 March –1 May most abundant species collected in 2005 and 2006, de - 2008 using the NOAA RVs David Starr Jordan and Miller clined precipitously in 2007 to about 16% of its 2006 Freeman . The goals of the survey are to: (1) conduct con - abundance and 2% of its 2005 level. Pacific sardine tinuous underway sampling of surface waters; (2) record (Sardinops sagax ), on the other hand, increased in 2007 current profiles throughout the duration of the cruise to about 15% above its 2006 abundance, although still with the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; (3) con - well below its most recent peak (in 2005) of larval abun - tinue an ongoing assessment of pelagic fish stocks be - dance. Ichthyoplankton data suggested that peak Pacific tween La Jolla and San Francisco, California; (4) collect sardine spawning began to shift southward from central information on sardine reproductive parameters, spatial California in 2005, and this trend appears to have con - distribution of size, age, and abundance of sardine, and tinued through 2007. acoustics ground truth information using trawling; (5) monitor environmental conditions within the CCE sur - Review of Rockfish vey area; (6) make continuous observations of sea birds SWFSC houses a collection of over 20,000 ground - and marine mammals when possible; and (7) record con - fish tissue samples, which includes virtually all extant tinuous acoustic targets obtained with a multi-frequency rockfish species. These samples have enabled the com - Simrad EK-60 scientific sounder. pletion of a comprehensive and robust phylogenetic hy - 5 5-14 Committee Rept final:5-9 Committee Rept 11/8/08 6:11 PM Page 6 COMMITTEE REPORT CalCOFI Rep., Vol. 49, 2008 pothesis for the genus Sebastes (Hyde and Vetter 2007). a growing need for ocean observing data and ecologi - With at least 65 rockfish species found along the west cal forecasts. coast of North America, this genus has presented nu - Collaboration and partnerships within NOAA and merous long-standing problems for identification and between NOAA and academic scientists are the primary management. This work allowed: (1) major revisions to means of developing the next generation of ecosystem previous subgeneric classifications based on morphol - forecasts and assessments. Within NOAA, the Northwest ogy; (2) assignment of approximate timing of speciation Fisheries Science Center and SWFSC and the National events; (3) evaluation of patterns of species evolution; Weather Service Climate Prediction Center are devel - and (4) the discovery of two “cryptic” species (Hyde and oping a pilot forecast to use wind field projections from Vetter 2007; Hyde et al. 2008). existing atmospheric models in order to predict the tim - By using a combination of seven mitochondrial and ing and duration of the spring transition along the coasts two nuclear genes, the authors were able to develop a of Washington, Oregon, and northern California. More phylogeny of virtually all extant rockfish species includ - information can be found at: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa ing Asian, north Atlantic, and southern hemisphere forms. .gov/products/precip/CWlink/upwelling/mainupwelling. The results provide for the first time an unequivocal html. The SWFSC and SIO are developing a second method of identifying ichthyoplankton and other field ecological forecast with funds from the NOAA IOOS samples and forensic identification of market samples. Program. This project utilizes existing SIO climate model An additional result is that rockfishes can now be as - outputs (temperature, salinity with depth, sea-surface signed to meaningful sub-generic lineages that allow height, and currents) to project West Coast Pacific sar - managers to group species under management accord - dine larvae distribution and abundance to improve ing to shared life-history characteristics such as time of NOAA Fisheries’ annual coastal pelagic sardine stock as - spawning and essential fish habitat requirements. sessment required by the PFMC. The 2008 plans for PaCOOS include continued PaCOOS—Pacific Coast Ocean coordination with the Regional Associations on joint Observing System proposal development with an emphasis on data man - In 2007 the focus for PaCOOS was to improve data agement, ecological forecasting and assessment, and in - access and interoperability and to develop new products creasing ocean observing data when opportunities arise. for supporting the California Current (CC) ecological observing system. Data management activities centered CalCOFI Conference on access of NOAA’s West Coast biological and physi - The SWFSC Fisheries Resources Division hosted the cal data in partnership with academics. With funds from CalCOFI Conference 26 –28 November 2007 at Hubbs- the NOAA IOOS Program, three data portals were up - SeaWorld Research Institute, San Diego, California. The dated with QA/QC’d data and were made accessible symposium of the conference was “Jumbo squid inva sions from the PaCOOS website (www.pacoos.org) as well as in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.” The conference was well- through the following home servers: attended with 130 participants from around the world. 1. NOAA Habitat data: http://tomcat.coas.oregon As there were overlapping participants, the 8th Tri- state.edu/; National Sardine Forum was held immediately follow - 2. NOAA Pelagic data: http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/ ing the CalCOFI Conference, 29 –30 November, also at PaCOOS/; and Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute. The Forum provided 3. National Marine Sanctuary physical data: http://portal an opportunity to exchange information regarding Pacific .ncddc.noaa.gov/wco/. sardine issues among the fishing industry and scientists, Through leveraging of PaCOOS funds with the government and academia from Mexico, the U.S., and CalCOFI and the California Current Ecosystem Long- Canada. The Forum was attended by 90 rep resentatives Term Ecological Research (CCE LTER) Programs SIO, from the SWFSC, NWFSC, PFMC, SIO, the States of the historical CalCOFI physical and biological data are California and Oregon, the Canadian Department of being made web accessible. The physical data are already Fisheries and Oceans, the Ministry of Environment, available and the biological data will be available in Province of B.C., and several members from Mexico’s 2008 –09 (http://oceaninformatics.ucsd.edu/datazoo/). CICESE and CICIMAR from Ensenada and La Paz. Data access and data interoperability underlie the Industry was well represented from all three countries. primary products of PaCOOS,
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