• Full issue

Separate articles:

• The state of PICES science - 1999
• The status of the Bering Sea: January - July, 1999
• The state of the western North Pacific in the second half of 1998
• The state of the eastern North Pacific since February 1999
• MEQ/WG 8 Practical Workshop
• Michael M. Mullin - A biography
• Highlights of Eighth Annual Meeting
• Mechanism causing the variability of the Japanese sardine population: Achievements of the Bio-Cosmos Project in Japan
• Climate change, global warming, and the PICES mandate – The need for improved monitoring
• The new age of China-GLOBEC study
• GLOBEC activities in Korean waters
• Aspects of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)