Date of Meeting: 29 July 1998
Place: International Pacific Halibut Commission conference room

Present at the meeting:

Steven Hare (IPHC), Bob Francis (UW), Jim Ingraham (NMFS), Nate Mantua (JISAO), Johnn Piatt (NBS/USFWS), Ric Brodeur (NMFS), Warren Wooster (UW), Kerim Aydin (UW), Anne Hollowed (NMFS), Pat Livingston (NMFS), Brian Bigler (Wards Cove), Ellie Linen (UW), Richard Strickland (UW), Ari Stromme (UW), Curt Ebbesmeyer (Evans-Hamilton), David Fluharty (UW), Ed Miles (UW), Rich Hinrichson (UW), Ross Anderson (Seattle Times)
 

This meeting consisted of  three presentations:

1.  John Piatt - A shift in the small mesh trawl catch composition in the 1970s and potential ramifications for marine mammal and marine bird populations of the Gulf of Alaska

2.  Ric Brodeur - The 1998 Bering Sea coccolithophore bloom

3. Nate Mantua - More on the atmospheric and oceanic changes in the North Pacific since 1989.

There was considerable talk afterwards about management of fisheries and its import vis a vis climate impacts.  the focus of this group may swing that way.