Monday, April 13, 2015
Arrival in Seattle
17:30 Opening reception, Silver Cloud Inn University District, 5036 25th Ave NE, Seattle
Third Meeting of Scientific Experts on Fish Stocks in the Central Arctic Ocean
Seattle, USA—One of a series of FISCAO meetings of scientific experts on fish Stocks in the central Arctic Ocean initiated in 2011.
About
Meeting participants 3rd Meeting of Arctic Fish Stocks, April 14–16, 2015, Seattle, Washington.
THE ARCTIC COASTAL STATES (the Kingdom of Norway, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Canada, and the Kingdom of Denmark) convened the third scientific meeting on Arctic fish stocks in Seattle, Washington (April 14–16, 2015), to identify ongoing Arctic research and monitoring activities,and to continue the process of developing the scientific information necessary to support the development of an international agreement on fishing in the Arctic in areas outside the territorial waters of the five Arctic coastal states. The terms of reference for the third meeting were the result of discussions among the Arctic coastal states in Nuuk, Greenland, February 2014. The 2014 meeting in Nuuk reaffirmed that, although commercial fishing in the high seas area of the central Arctic Ocean appears unlikely to occur in the near future, the state of currently available scientific information needs to be improved in order to reduce the substantial uncertainties associated with Arctic fish stocks.
Participants included scientific and policy personnel from governmental and non-governmental institutions. The representatives from scientific institutions in the Arctic coastal states were joined by those from other nations conducting Arctic research (China, Japan, Korea, Iceland). In addition, participation included members from international Arctic research organizations (International Arctic Science Committee, Sustained Arctic Observing Network, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)), the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), the Ecosystem Approach Expert Group of the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group of the Arctic Council, and US domestic Arctic research organizations (the US Arctic Research Commission and the North Pacific Research Board).
Bibliographies
- Bibliography 3rd Meeting Scientific Experts Fish Stocks Arctic Ocean Apr 14, 2015
- United States’ Bibliographies of Fisheries Related Arctic Research and Monitoring
- Contributed Bibliography Arctic Fish Stocks (Appendix C.2 to Inventory of Research and Monitoring Programs Breakout Group Report)
- Contributed Web Sites (URLs) Arctic Fish Stocks (Appendix C.4 to Inventory of Research and Monitoring Programs Breakout Group Report)
Meeting and Breakout Reports
- Final Meeting Report: 3rd Meeting of Scientific Experts on Fish Stocks in the Central Arctic Ocean
- Inventory of Research and Monitoring Programs Breakout Group Report
- Joint Program of Scientific Research and Monitoring Breakout Group Report
- Status and Gaps Breakout Group Report
- Appendix A1: Arctic Research Activities
- Appendix A2: Management Plan for the Marine Environment of the Barents Sea-Lofoten Area Update
- Appendix A3: Atlas of the Barents Sea Fishes, Joint IMR-PINRO report 1, 2011
- Appendix A4: IMR-PINRO Update of the Barents Sea Ecosystem Report, 2014
- Appendix A5: A monitoring strategy for the Barents Sea, 2013
- Appendix A6: IMR ecosystem activity in the Arctic Ocean, 2013
- Appendix A7: Survey report from the joint Norwegian/Russian ecosystem survey in the Barents Sea, 2013
- Appendix A8: Strategic Initiative – The Arctic Ocean Ecosystem (SI_ARCTIC)
- Appendix A9: Final Report Joint Russian-Norwegian Monitoring Project-Ocean 3, 2015
Additional Fish Stocks in the Central Arctic Ocean Workshops
Schedule
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Plenaries and Review and Report on R&M
06:30 Breakfast opens Silver Cloud
Shuttle: Morning departures from the hotel: 7:45 am and 8:00 am
08:45 Welcome, introductions, discussion of agenda
09:00 Opening Address: US Arctic Research (Ulmer)
09:15 Forecasting the impacts of climate change on arctic fisheries
09:15 Atmospheric and oceanic perspectives (Overland)
09:45 Biological perspectives (Hollowed)
10:15 Overview of the fishery management issue: Report from the Coastal state meeting Nuuk 2014 (Niemeier)
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 Findings from Second Meeting of Scientific Experts (Hoel)
11:00 Perspectives Arctic Research Activities
11:00 Norway (Sunnuna)
11:15 Russia (Afanasyev)
11:30 U.S. (Logerwell)
11:45 Canada (Reist)
12:00 Lunch provided
13:00 Perspectives Arctic Research Activities
- 13:00 Iceland (Ástþórsson)
- 13:15 China (Zhu)
- 13:30 Japan (Ichii)
- 13:45 Korea (Choi)
- Submitted: Greenland (Siegstad)
14:00 Status of Reports
14:00 Inventory of Arctic Research and Monitoring (Mundy and Pulsifer)
14:15 Status of Arctic Research and Monitoring (Sunnanå)
14:30 Joint Program of Scientific Research and Monitoring (Nachman)
14:45 Explain/Set up break out groups, reconvene as break out groups
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 Break out groups
17:30 End of Day 1
Shuttle: Evening departures from the meeting: 5:45 pm and 6:15 pm
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Framework for a Joint Program of Scientific Research and Monitoring
06:30 Breakfast opens Silver Cloud
Shuttles: Morning departures from the hotel: 7:30 am and 8:00 am
08:30 Review of any questions from Day 2
08:35 Break out groups
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 Reports from break out groups
10:45 Inventory of Arctic Research and Monitoring (TBD)
11:00 Status of Arctic Research and Monitoring (TBD)
11:15 Joint Program of Scientific Research and Monitoring (TBD)
11:30 Discussion
12:00 Lunch provided
13:00 On screen review and editing of draft reports
15:30 - 15:45 Break
15:45
- Developing next steps and considerations and topics for further discussions
- Considering the development of an action plan (e.g., notional schedules, areas of operations, costs) for the Joint Program of Scientific Research and Monitoring.
- Considering how to promote cooperation with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), as well as other relevant scientific entities and academic programs.
- Considering workshops to address specific issues, including questions relating to modelling of ecosystem properties, survey design, sampling methods and projecting future states of the Central Arctic Ocean, its biota and ecosystems
17:00 End day 2
Shuttles: Evening departures from the meeting: 5:15 pm and 5:45 pm
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Next steps and considerations for further discussions
06:30 Breakfast opens Silver Cloud
Shuttles: Morning departures from the hotel: 7:30 am and 8:00 am
08:30 Develop recommendations for next steps and topics for further discussions
09:30 On screen review of draft documents
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 On screen review of draft documents
11:45 Final Review and Discussions of R&M Report, JPRSM, and recommendations for next steps
12:30 Meeting ends
Shuttles: Afternoon departures from the meeting: 12:45 pm and 1:00 pm