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STATUS OF STOCKS & MULTISPECIES ASSESSMENT PROGRAM:
A workshop on walleye pollock resources in the central Bering Sea was held in Pusan, Korea, 19-21 May 2003 at the Republic of Korea's National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI). The purpose of the workshop was to evaluate scientific findings for key accomplishments that would affect our understanding of the pollock resources since the implementation of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea (CBS) 8 years ago.
Scientists from Poland, Russia, Japan, the United States, and Korea attended.
Four scientists from the AFSC participated: Rich Marasco (Workshop Chair),
Loh-Lee Low, Neal Williamson, and Jim Ianelli. The agenda covered comprehensive
survey plans with a proposal to integrate trial fishing into the research
program. The AFSC delegation specifically proposed altering its echo-integration
trawl survey of the Bogoslof Island region by the NOAA ship Miller Freeman
from an annual to a biennial schedule (with the next survey to be in 2005).
The survey has been used as an index for the Aleutian Basin pollock spawning
population. The meeting accepted this proposal and encouraged continued
cooperative research programs as in the past. However, the Parties did
not come up with a firm plan to integrate trial fishing vessels into the
regular research survey program. |
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