Date of Meeting: 10 February 1999
Place: International Pacific Halibut Commission conference room
Present at the meeting:
Steven Hare (IPHC), Bob Francis (UW), Jim Ingraham (NMFS), Nate Mantua
(JISAO), Ric Brodeur (NMFS), Warren Wooster (UW), Kerim Aydin (UW), Anne
Hollowed (NMFS), Brian Bigler (Wards Cove), Richard Strickland (UW), Bill
Rudolph (NW fishletter), Jim Anderson (UW), Laurie Weitkamp (NMFS), Ed
Casilla (NMFS), Brett Dumbauld (WDFW), Paul Spencer (NMFS), Tom Wilderbuer
(NMFS)
This meeting consisted of three presentations:
1. Nate Mantua - Update on the PDO index
2. Jim Overland - The salinity signature of the PDO
3. Laurie Weitkamp - Looking into the crystal ball - Predictions for
future ocean conditions and Pacific salmon.