Climate Change and Northern fish Populations

Abstract

Proceedings of the Symposium on Climate Change and Northern Fish Populations held in Victoria, British Columbia, October 19th to 24th 1992. "A summary of 57 studies and six poster sessions related to evidence of climate change, and its effects on freshwater and marine aquatic environments and on the dynamics of fish populations and fisheries. Numerous examples of the relationships between fish abundance trends and the environment are included. Most investigations are from the North Pacific Ocean, but studies done in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Bering Sea, the Yellow Sea, and selected freshwater lakes are also included. The effect of climate change on cod, pollock, salmon, herring, Dungeness crab, Japanese sardine, and Californian anchovy (among others) is discussed. A list of contributors is included" -- Introduction: The need to understand the relationship between climate change and the dynamics of fish populations / R. Beamish -- Opening remarks / L.S. Parsons -- Keynote address: Climate change and community structure / J.H. Steele -- Banquet address / P.A. Larkin -- Decadal coupled atmosphere-ocean variations in the north Pacific Ocean / K.E. Trenberth and J.W. Hurrell -- Long-term variations in SST fields of the north Pacific Ocean / K. Hanawa -- The effects of climate on the year-class variations of certain freshwater fish species / H. Lehtonen and J. Lappalainen -- Atmospheric teleconnections and coherent fluctuations in recruitment to North Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) stocks / S.N. Rodionov -- Predicted effects of global climate change on fishes in Minnesota lakes / H.G. Stefan, M. Hondzo, J.G. Eaton, and J.H. McCormick -- Climate change and variability of the Bering Sea current system / A.V. Verkhunov. Decadal-scale variations in the eastern subarctic Pacific : I. Winter ocean conditions / W.S. Wooster and A.B. Hollowed -- Influence of interannual changes in ocean conditions on the abundance of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) in the eastern Bering Sea / K. Ohtani and T. Azumaya -- The effects of climate change on resource populations in the Yellow Sea ecosystem / Q. Tang -- Analysis of trends in primary productivity and chlorophyll-a over two decades at Ocean Station P (50 [degrees] N, 145 [degrees] W) in the subarctic northeast Pacific Ocean / C.S. Wong [and others] -- Do cyclic temperatures cause cyclic fisheries? / F.-J. Müter, B.L. Norcross and T.C. Royer -- Sea-ice conditions and the distribution of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) on the Bering and Chukchi Sea Shelf / T. Wyllie Echeverria -- Factors limiting the distributions of Ontario's freshwater fishes : the role of climate and other variables, and the potential impacts of climate change / C.K. Minns and J.E. Moore. The El Niño of 1983 as reflected in the ichthyoplankton off Washington, Oregon, and northern California / M.J. Doyle -- A comparative study of climatic changes in the north Pacific and north Atlantic and their relation to the abundance of fish stocks / A.S. Krovnin -- Fish stock fluctuations as indicators of multidecadal fluctuations in the biological productivity of the ocean / B.J. Rothschild -- Use of Arrhenius models to describe temperature dependence of organismal rates in fish / P. Lin and H.A. Regier -- An exploratory analysis of associations between biotic and abiotic factors and year-class strength of Gulf of Alaska walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) / B.A. Megrey [and others] -- Size decline and older age at maturity of two chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) stocks in western North America, 1972-92 / J.H. Helle and M.S. Hoffman -- The difficulty of tracing the effects of climate change on the fishes of Lake Constance / J. Hartmann. Potential influence of north Pacific sea-surface temperatures on increased production of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) from Japan / Y. Ishida, D.W. Welch and M. Ogura -- Effect of climate on herring (Clupea pallasi) population dynamics in the northeast Pacific Ocean / A. Zebdi and J.S. Collie -- Potential effects of global climate change on Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) populations in the northeastern Pacific Ocean / R.A. McConnaughey and D.A. Armstrong -- Long-term variations in the oceanic environment of the East China Sea and their influence on fisheries resources / C. Lin, B. Xu and S. Huang -- The relationship of several environmental indices to the survival of juvenile male northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) from the Pribilof Islands / A.E. York -- Interdecadal variability in distribution and catch rates of epipelagic nekton in the northeast Pacific Ocean / R.D. Brodeur and D.M. Ware -- Climate change and salmon production in the northeast Pacific Ocean / S.R. Hare and R.C. Francis. Decadal-scale variations in the eastern subarctic Pacific: II. Response of northeast Pacific fish stocks / A.B. Hollowed and W.S. Wooster -- Influence of environment on stock fluctuations of Japanese sardine, Sardinops melanostictus / T. Wada, T. Matsubara, Y. Matsumiya, and N. Koizumi -- Influence of climatic changes on succession processes in the community of neritic pelagic fishes in the Kuroshio-Oyashio zone / V.V. Kuznetsov -- Wind climate and foraging of larval and juvenile Arcto-Norwegian cod (Gadus morhua) / S. Sundby -- Moderate is better : exploring nonlinear climatic effects on the Californian northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) / P. Cury [and others] -- The relationship among sea-surface temperature, the abundance of juvenile walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) and the reproductive performance and diets of seabirds at the Pribilof Islands, southeastern Bering Sea / M.B. Decker, G.L. hunt, Jr., and G.V. Byrd, Jr. Climate change and ocean energetics of Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) / S.G. Hinch, M.C. Healey, R.E. Diewert, and M.A. Henderson -- High-latitude climate forcing and tidal mixing by the 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle and low-frequency recruitment trends in Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepsis) / K.S. Parker, T.C. Royer, and R.B. Deriso -- Marine climate off Newfoundland and its influence on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and capelin (Malltus villosus) / S. Narayanan [and others] -- The effect of climate on north Pacific pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) production : examining some details of a natural experiment / R.T. Cooney [and others] -- Apprise: A multi-year investigation of environmental variation and its effects on larval recruitment / P.K. Bienfang and D.A. Ziemann -- A paleoscience approach to estimating the effects of climatic warming on salmonid fisheries on the Columbia River basin / J.C. Chatters [and others]. Relation of eastern Bering Sea walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) recruitment to environmental and oceanographic variables / T.J. Quinn II and H.J. Niebauer -- Climate-induced changes in Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) abundance and pelagic community interactions in the Vancouver Island upwelling system / D.M. Ware and G.A. McFarlane -- The impacts of climate change on Japanese fisheries / T. Kawasaki and M. Omori -- The extent of the effect of climate upon fisheries of Russia / S.A. Studenetsky -- Influence of climate change on living resources in the offshore waters of China / J. Yang, L. Li, and S. Xia -- Warm and cool water stocks of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) : a comparative study of reproductive biology and stock dynamics / A.V. Tyler -- Influence of wind-induced currents on the recruitment of Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus) eggs and larvae / A. Kasai, M.J. Kishi and T. Sugimoto. Variations in abundance of pelagic fishes in the Kuroshio Zone as related to climatic changes / V.A. Belyaev and T.A. Shatilina -- Food web theory, marine food webs, and what climate change may do to northern marine fish populations / J. Rice -- Environmental effects on long-term population dynamics and recruitment to Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) populations in southern British Columbia / J.F. Schweigert -- Marine fish production trends off the Pacific coast of Canada and the United States / R.J. Beamish and D.R. Bouillon -- Trends in the average size of Pacific salmon in Canadian catches / W.E. Ricker -- Interannual variability of the zooplankton community off southern Vancouver Island / D.L. Mackas -- Growth and recruitment of freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens) as related to long-term temperature patterns / D.L. Pereira [and others] -- Biomass variations of walleye pollock of the Bering Sea in relation to oceanlogical conditions / O.A. Bulatov. Influence of climate on recruitment and migration of fish stocks in the North Sea / E. Svendsen [and others] -- Effect of water temperature on emigration timing and size of Fraser River pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) fry : implications for marine survival / M.A. Henderson [and others] -- Variability in frontal boundaries, temperatures, and the geographic ranges of species and pelagic marine communities along 175[degrees]30[minutes]E, 1978-91 / S.E. Ignell, S.R. Carlson and R.A. Rumbaugh -- Change in the distribution of favourable water temperatures and migration of Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus) / M. Kashiwai -- Climate-dependent salmon and sardine stock fluctuations in the North Pacific / L. Klyashtorin and B. Smirnov -- Larval fish growth in the Barents Sea / H. Loeng, H. Bjørke and G. Ottersen -- Potential impact of climate change on the habitat and population dynamics of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in eastern Canada / C.K. Minns [and others]. Potential to index climate with growth and recruitment of temperate fish / D.L. Pereira [and others] -- Modeling the impact of climate variability on the advection of larval walleye pollock ... in the Guld of Alaska / P.J. Stabeno, A.J. hermann, N.A. Bond, and S.J. Bograd -- Preparing for climate change: workshops -- Symposium summary / M. Sinclair and K.T. Frank.