NORTH PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ORGANIZATION (PICES) ANNUAL REPORT FOURTEENTH MEETING VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA SEPTEMBER 29-OCTOBER 9, 2005 March 2006 Secretariat / Publisher North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) P.O. Box 6000, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. V8L 4B2 e-mail: [email protected] Home Page: www.pices.int TABLE OF CONTENTS W X Page Report of Opening Session......................................................................................................... 1 Report of Governing Council .................................................................................................. 15 Report of the Finance and Administration Committee......................................................... 49 Reports of Science Board and Committees Science Board Inter-sessional Meeting................................................................................ 63 Science Board...................................................................................................................... 75 Biological Oceanography Committee.................................................................................. 93 Fishery Science Committee ............................................................................................... 105 Marine Environmental Quality Committee........................................................................ 111 MONITOR Technical Committee ..................................................................................... 119 Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee............................................................... 127 Technical Committee on Data Exchange........................................................................... 137 Reports of Sections, Working and Study Groups Section on Ecology of harmful algal blooms in the North Pacific .................................... 143 Section on Carbon and climate.......................................................................................... 147 Working Group 18 on Mariculture in the 21st century - The intersection between ecology, socio-economics and production .................................................................. 153 Working Group 19 on Ecosystem-based management science and its application to the North Pacific ..................................................................................................... 159 Reports of the Climate Change and Carrying Capacity Program Implementation Panel on the CCCC Program ................................................................... 167 CFAME Task Team........................................................................................................... 175 MODEL Task Team ......................................................................................................... 181 Reports of Advisory Panels Advisory Panel on Iron fertilization experiment in the subarctic Pacific Ocean.............. 187 Advisory Panel on Marine birds and mammals ................................................................ 193 Advisory Panel on Micronekton sampling inter-calibration experiment .......................... 197 Summary of Scientific Sessions and Workshops ................................................................. 201 Membership List..................................................................................................................... 233 List of Participants ................................................................................................................. 249 List of Acronyms .................................................................................................................... 265 iii OS-2005 REPORT OF OPENING SESSION W X The Opening Session was called to order at Dr. Alexander called upon Dr. Samuel Pooley 8:30 a.m. on October 13, 2005, by the Chairman, (Director, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Dr. Vera Alexander, who welcomed delegates, Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric, observers and researchers to the PICES Administration, United States of America) to Fourteenth Annual Meeting (PICES XIV). speak on behalf of the Government of the United States of America. Dr. Pooley addressed the Welcome addresses on behalf of the host state session and his remarks are appended to the report in OP Endnote 6. Prof. Victor Gorchakov (Vice-Governor of the Primorye Region) welcomed participants on Dr. Alexander asked Dr. Lev N. Bocharov behalf of the host state (OP Endnote 1). (Director, Pacific Scientific Research Fisheries Center, Federal Agency on Fisheries, Russian Remarks by representatives of Contracting Federation) to make a statement on behalf of the Parties and the Chairman of PICES Russian Government. Dr. Bocharov addressed the session and his remarks are appended to the Dr. Alexander invited Dr. Laura Richards report in OP Endnote 7. (Regional Director of Science, Pacific Region, Fisheries & Oceans Canada) to make a statement Dr. Alexander thanked Prof. Gorchakov and all on behalf of the Canadian Government. Dr. the delegates for their remarks and spoke on Richards addressed the session and her remarks behalf of PICES. The text of her address is are appended to the report in OP Endnote 2. appended to the report in OP Endnote 8. Dr. Alexander called upon Dr. Tokio Wada Wooster Award presentation ceremony (Counselor, Resources Enhancement Promotion Department, Fisheries Agency, Japan) to speak Dr. Alexander and the Science Board Chairman, on behalf of the Japanese Government. Dr. Dr. Kuh Kim, conducted the Wooster Award Wada addressed the session and his remarks are presentation ceremony. Dr. Kuh Kim read the appended to the report in OP Endnote 3. following Science Board citation for the 2005 Wooster Award (reading of the Science Board Dr. Alexander then asked Mr. Zhi-Xin Chen citation was accompanied by a special slide (Division Director, Department of International show dedicated to Dr. Daniel Ware): Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, People’s Republic of China) to make a statement on The Wooster Award was established in 2001 to behalf of the Chinese Government. Mr. Chen honour Dr. Warren S. Wooster, the principal addressed the session and his remarks are founder and first Chairman of PICES, and appended to the report in OP Endnote 4. world-renowned researcher and statesman in the area of climate variability and fisheries Dr. Alexander invited Dr. Ig-Chan Pang production. The award is given annually to an (Director, Headquarters for Marine individual who: Environment, National Fisheries Research & has made significant scientific contributions Development Institute, Ministry of Maritime to North Pacific marine science; Affairs and Fisheries, Republic of Korea) to has achieved sustained excellence in speak on behalf of the Korean Government. Dr. research, teaching, administration or a Pang addressed the session and his remarks are combination of these in the area of the North appended to the report in OP Endnote 5. Pacific; 1 OS-2005 has worked to integrate the various contributed to over 50 articles in the primary disciplines of the marine sciences; scientific literature. The most recent of these someone who is, or has been, actively appeared this year in the prestigious journal, involved in PICES activities. Science. Co-authored with Dr. Richard Thomson of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the The late Professor Michael M. Mullin (U.S.A.), paper demonstrated a strong bottom-up level Prof. Yutaka Nagata (Japan), Prof. William link between primary productivity and resident Pearcy (U.S.A.) and Prof. Paul H. LeBlond commercial fish yield for the entire west coast of (Canada) were honoured with the Wooster North America, extending from the California Award from 2001-2004. Bight to the western Aleutian Islands. As an example of the breadth of his scientific interests, In April of this year, the Science Board his first paper in Nature in 1974, coincidently evaluated the nominations and selected with the former PICES MEQ Committee Dr. Daniel Ware as the recipient of the Wooster Chairman, Dr. Richard Addison, was on Award in 2005. Sadly, Dr. Ware passed away in contaminants in plankton. late July of this year, but we are fortunate that his wife, Madeleine, is able to join us for this Dr. Ware is also unique in being the first person celebration of Dr. Ware’s accomplishments. to hold the position that I now occupy, Chairman of Science Board. He led PICES Dr. Ware began his scientific career in 1967 at through its formative years and was a leading the University of British Columbia where his force in the establishment of the doctoral research was part of a PICES/GLOBEC Climate Change and Carrying multidisciplinary study of food web structure Capacity Program, or the CCCC Program. and dynamics in a lake ecosystem. A move to After serving his 3-year term at the helm, he the Atlantic coast for a decade at the Marine continued with the CCCC/MODEL Task Team Ecology Laboratory allowed Dr. Ware to during the development of the now well-known conduct theoretical and field research on fish ecosystem model, NEMURO. He was bioenergetics, fisheries oceanography, stock- particularly interested in the role of microbial recruitment theory, and early life history biology processes. A special issue of Ecological of cod, mackerel, and herring. He returned to Modelling to be published in 2006 will be the the Pacific Coast as a scientist at the Pacific first major publication on NEMURO and Biological Station and served for a period as NEMURO.FISH models, and this issue will be