During the synthesis phase of the CCCC Program,
comparisons of life-history strategies in relation to climate change
are recommended for pelagic species such as pollock, pink salmon,
capelin, sardines, anchovies, saury, euphausiids and squid, among
others. In this session we will focus on modeling and analyses of
processes affecting growth, survival and recruitment of sardine
and anchovy, and their relevance to management. We are calling for
presentations on models and historical data analysis on the temporal
and spatial variability of recruitment processes of sardine and
anchovy, their linkages to changes in climate, human impacts and
regional ecosystem structure. Advances in general modeling approaches
that couple pelagic fish population dynamics with lower trophic
ecosystems are also encouraged.
Invited speakers: Salvador Lluch-Cota (Centro de
Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, México); Kenneth Rose (Louisiana
State University, U.S.A.); and Akinori Takasuka (National Research
Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan)