The synthesis of CCCC (PICES-GLOBEC Climate Change and Carrying Capacity Program) knowledge of climate change and carrying capacity may focus on developing a workplan based on the proposed CFAME (Climate Forcing and Marine Ecosystem Response) Task Team guiding hypothesis. To facilitate this synthesis, CFAME recommends an interim workshop for a core group of CFAME scientists, in order to develop recommendations from the Study Group on Fisheries and Ecosystem Responses to Recent Regime Shifts and Working Group 16 on Climate Change, Shifts in Fish Production, and Fisheries Management into a concrete program for progress and the development of a CFAME workplan.

The scientific focus of this workshop will be the TIME SCALES OF RESPONSE MECHANISMS to specific climate shifts. It will approach the question: “Is there a sufficiently general conceptual model which may relate each life history strategist to patterns in lower trophic-level production?” It is hoped that tractable hypotheses may be outlined, for example the “flow hypothesis” for Pacific sardine, as discussed in the PICES III workshop on “Linking open ocean and coastal ecosystems II”. Two invited scientists will aid in providing current hypotheses.

The development of the work plan will center on the comparison of the response of multiple life-history strategists in relation to climate. The preliminary list for discussion is: euphausiids, pollock, squid, sardines, pink salmon, saury, capelin, anchovy.

It is expected that preliminary results from the work initiated at this workshop will be submitted as one or more CFAME presentations at the CCCC synthesis symposium, in to be held in 2006.

 

revised 2005/05/06

May 14-15, 2005
Salon B on the 2nd floor,
Chateau Victoria Hotel
Victoria, BC, Canada

 

Introduction, presentations and discussions of on-going national GLOBEC and GLOBEC-like programs relevant to spatial and temporal scales and processes of response mechanisms to specific climatic regime shifts (1970/71, 1976/77, 1988/89 and 1998/99), especially with respect to carrying capacity using focus species: euphausiids, pollock, squid, sardines, pink salmon, saury, capelin, and anchovy.

Development and adoption of CFAME work plan based on comparisons of presentations in Day-1.

Introduction, adoption of agenda, appointment of reporters, logistics: lead by Kerim Aydin and Akihiko Yatsu

CFAME hypotheses and purposes of the workshop: Akihiko Yatsu and Kerim Aydin

Invited talk and discussion: Kazuaki Tadokoro "Decadal variations in mesozooplankton biomass in North Pacific with comparison of their environments"

Commonalities and differences of biological responses among regions and target species (make tables similar to Table 2.1 of FERRRS report and comparative figures using templates)