Coastal pelagic fishes
Subtitle: report of Working Group 3
By: edited by John R. Hunter and Tokio Wada. Subarctic gyre : report of Working Group 6 / edited by Brent Hargreaves and Takashige Sugimoto.
Contributors: Hunter, John R.; Wada, Tokio.; Hargreaves, Brent.; Sugimoto, Takashige.; North Pacific Marine Science Organization. Working Group 3.; North Pacific Marine Science Organization. Working Group 6.
Series: PICES scientific report -- no. 1.
Publisher: North Pacific Marine Science Organization
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Sidney, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780969842002
Subjects: Ocean circulation -- North Pacific Ocean.; Marine fishes -- North Pacific Ocean.; Fish populations -- North Pacific Ocean.; Fisheries -- North Pacific Ocean -- Statistics.
Genres: Statistics.
Other titles: Subarctic gyre.
Notes: "October 1993."

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Part 1. COASTAL PELAGIC FISHES: Executive summary; title: 1.0 Introduction; title: 2.0 Descriptions of stocks; title: 2.1 Eastern Pacific; title: 2.1.1 California Sardine (Sardinops sagax); title: 2.1.2 The Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax); title: 2.1.3 Pacific Mackerel (Scomber japonicus); title: 2.1.4 Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) of the Northeastern Pacific Ocean; title: 2.2 Western Pacific; title: 2.2.1 Japanese Sardine (Sardinops melanostictus); title: 2.2.2 Japanese Anchovy (Engraulis japonicus); title: 2.2.3 Japanese common Mackerel (Scomber japonicus); title: 2.2.4 Pacific saury (Cololabis saira); title: 2.2.5 Yellow Sea Herring (Clupea pallasi); title: 3.0 Scientific questions and hypotheses; title: 4.0 Critical gaps in information and knowledge; title: 5.0 Possible scientific approaches; title: 5.1 Assembly of data; title: 5.2 Expansion of scientific knowledge; title: 5.2.1 Pan-Pacific comparisons of recruitment; title: 5.2.2 Life table analysis; title: 5.2.3 Trophic ecology; title: 5.2.4 Comparative field and laboratory studies; title: 5.3 Sharing knowledge and technology; title: Part 2. SUBARCTIC GYRE: 1.0 Introduction; title: 1.1 Main scientific questions; title: 2.0 Key scientific questions for the Subarctic Gyre; title: 3.0 Review of the physics of the Subarctic Gyre; title: 3.1 Gross structures and decadal scale variations in the basin-scale climatic and oceanic conditions / T. Sugimoto; title: 3.2 Review of processes of interannual variations in the eastern subarctic waters, including mesoscale phenomena and the shelf circulations which may affect the ecosystem / J.D. Schumacher and T. Royer; title: 3.3 Oceanographic structure of the upper layer in the western North Pacific subarctic region and its variation / T. Yoshida; title: 4.0 Review of the biology of the Subarctic Gyre; title: 4.1 Phytoplankton and zooplankton in the western subarctic Gyre / A. Taniguchi; title: 4.2 Distributions and seasonal/interannual variations in the phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass and species composition / D. Mackas and B. Frost; title: 4.3 Distributions and seasonal/interannual variations in the biomass of dominant species in the higher trophic levels of the Alaskan Gyre and marginal seas / W. Pearcy; title: 4.4 Review of the studies of variations in benthic and midwater fish populations / R.D. Brodeur and A.B. Hollowed; title: 4.5 How to estimate carrying capacity for nektonic species? / Y.Ishida, D.W. Welch, and K. Shimazaki; title: 7.0 Appendices; title: 1. Recommendations; title: General recommendations; title: Specific recommendations for collarborative programs; title: 2. Terms of Reference; title: 3. List of participants.