Symposium
Monday, May 10th
17:00-21:00		Pre-registration at SAS Hotel
Tuesday, May 11th
09:00		Opening
09:45	Keynote	Jim Hurrell		Climate Variability in the North Atlantic: Past, Present and Future
10:45		Break
Zooplankton Session
11:15	Keynote	Mike Heath		Zooplankton and the link between climate variability and fish
12:00		Beaugrand et al.		Climate, Plankton and cod: relationships, pathways and mechanisms
12:20		Gaard et al.		Climate effects on zooplankton and productivity on the Faroe Plateau
12:40		Lunch
14:00		Skreslet et al.		Some roles of climate in the population ecology of Calanus finmarchicus in mid-Norwegian shelf waters and in the year-class formation of NE Arctic cod
14:20		Lynam and Brierley		Jellyfish-fish-climate interactions in the North Sea
14:40		Mendes and Morais		Relationship between climate, plankton and pelagic fish off West Iberian Peninsula
15:00		Alheit et al.		Parallel regime shifts in the central Baltic and North Sea in 1988/89
15:20		Mollmann et al.		Climate, zooplankton and pelagic fish growth in the Central Baltic Sea
15:40		Break
Production Session - Ecosystem and Trophic Interactions
16:10		Scott et al.		Birds, blooms and tides: what top predators can tell us about climate effects on fish behaviour
16:30		Durant et al.		Climate, match-mismatch and trophic interactions in a marine system: seabird-fish-plankton
16:50		Hunt and Megrey		Is the Eastern Bering Sea just a warmer Barents Sea?
17:10		Megrey et al.		Exploring regional differences in lower and higher trophic level marine ecosystem response to climate impacts using a coupled biogeochemical-fisheries bioenergetic/population dynamics model
17:30		Sunnana		Climate effects on fish stocks illustrated by the influence of incoming solar energy for photosynthesis and ambient temperature
17:50		Skjoldal		The Norwegian Sea Ecosystem: summary from the research program Mare Cognitum
18:10		End of Day 1
20:00		Reception hosted by the city of Bergen at the Håkonshallen.
Wednesday, May 12
Climate Change Session
08:30	Keynote	Laura Richards		Managing fish stocks under future climate scenarios and in the face of climatic uncertainty.
09:15		Cook and Heath		The implications of warming climate for the management of North Sea demersal fisheries
09:35		Kraus et al.		Global warming and fish stocks: winter spawning of Baltic sprat as a possible future scenario
09:55		Huse et al.		Migration patterns of herring and capelin related to climate change
10:15		Drinkwater		The response of Atlantic cod to future climate change
10:35		Break
11:00		Vikebo et al.		Effect of climate change on Arcto-Norwegian cod
11:20		Hyatt and Johannes		Assessment of impact and adaptation responses of fish and fisheries to climate change
11:40		Link		Economic impacts on the Norwegian cod and capelin fisheries caused by changes in the thermocline circulation
Distribution Session
12:00		Perry et al.		Out of the frying pan…and into the Norwegian Sea? Climate change and North Sea fish distributions
12:20		Ojaveer et al.		The impact of climate on the formation of fish fauna in the Baltic Sea
12:40		Lunch
14:00	Keynote	George Rose		The impact of climate on the distribution and migration of fish populations
14:45		Storr-Paulsen et al.		Impact of environmental conditions on distribution, transport and migration for cod in East and West Greenland
15:05		Jonsson and Valdimarsson		Flow of Atlantic water to the north Icelandic shelf in relation to drift of cod larvae
15:25		Ottersen and Swain		Distribution and migration of cod, the impact of climate
15:45		Break
16:15		Welsby et al.		Differences in the temperature experience and behavioural activity of cod around UK waters
16:35		Michalsen et al.		Behaviour of Atlantic cod at thermal fronts
16:55		Heino et al.		Climatic and year class effects on the distribution and abundance of blue whiting in the Barents Sea-Spitsbergen area
17:15		Bjornsson and Palsson		Distribution patterns and dynamics of fish stocks under recent climate change in Icelandic waters
17:35		Weinberg		Has ocean warming caused a die-off of Atlantic surfclams at the southern extreme of their range?
18:00-20:00		Poster Session
Thursday, May 13
Climate and Management Session
08:30	Keynote	Colin Bannister		Taking account of climate in the evaluation of the state of fish stocks
09:15		Kell and Pilling		An evaluation of the impact of climate change scenarios on North Sea cod management strategies
09:35		Rothschild and Chen		Managing fish stocks under climatic uncertainty
09:55		Brander		Consequences of changing climate for North Atlantic cod stocks and implications for fisheries management
10:15		Sinclair et al.		Biological and environmental factors influencing long-term variability in commercially exploited North Sea fish stocks
10:35		Break
11:00		Mackenzie and Koster		Incorporation of climate-ocean information in short and medium term sprat predictions in the Baltic Sea
11:20		Tretyak		Temperature influences on the recruitment abundance of the North-East Arctic cod commercial stock
11:40		Stiansen et al.		Including climate into the assessment of future fish recruitment, using multiple regression models
12:00		Pershing et al.		Climate-based assessment and forecasting for ecosystems in the Gulf of Maine
Production Session-Growth, Condition, Reproduction and Mortality
12:20		Browman et al.		Ultraviolet radiation impacts on the early life stages of Atlantic cod and their prey
12:40		Lunch
14:00	Keynote	Gudrun Marteinsdottir		The effect of climate variability on growth, maturity and recruitment
14:45		Friedland et al.		The emerging role of climate in post-smolt growth of Atlantic salmon
15:05		Ratz and Lloret		Growth and recruitment variation of Atlantic cod off Greenland
15:25		Hjermann et al.		Modelling the effect of climate on the dynamics and interactions of capelin, cod and herring in the Barents Sea
15:45		Jorgensen and Fiksen		Effects of a variable food intake on population dynamics and reproduction in the NE Arctic cod
16:05		Break
16:30		Marshall		Trophodynamic effects on the maturation of NE Arctic cod
16:50		Slotte and Iversen		Variations in the condition of NE Atlantic mackerel related to environmental conditions - effects on fecundity
17:10		Hallfredsson and Pedersen		Effects of predation from 0-group cod on mortality rates of capelin larvae in the Barents Sea
17:30		Nash et al.		Climate change and fish populations: What the non-commercial exploited species such as the lesser weever fish can tell us
20:00		Symposium Dinner
Friday, May 14
Production Session-Recruitment and Transport
08:30		Lajus et al.		Historical evidence of the influence of climate on some commercial fish populations of the Barents and White Seas
08:50		Le Pape et al.		The influence of climate change on commercial flatfish populations in the Bay of Biscay
09:10		Oskarsson and Taggart		Recruitment in Icelandic summer spawning herring explained by reproductive and environmental factors
09:30		Malmberg and Jonsson		Climatic and human impact on hydrobiological conditions in Icelandic waters
09:50		Ciannelli et al.		Non-additive effect of environmental variables on the recruitment dynamics of walleye pollock in the Gulf of Alaska
10:10		Borges et al.		The multiscale impact of NAO on fish recruitment variability in the upwelling system off Portugal
10:30		Break
11:00		Koster et al.		Baltic cod recruitment - impact of climate variability on key processes
11:20		Wieland		Changes in recruitment, growth, length at sex transition and stock size of Northern Shrimp at West Greenland
11:40		Richards et al.		Environmental effects on recruitment of northern shrimp in the Gulf of Maine
12:00		Brodziak and O’Brien		Do environmental factors affect recruits per spawner anomalies in the Gulf of Maine - Southern New England region?
Distribution Session
12:20		Blanchard et al.		Comparative analysis of fishing and climate effects on the fish community structure of the Bay of Biscay
12:40		Poulard and Blanchard		Impact of climate change on the fish community structure of the eastern continental shelf of the Bay of Biscay
13:00		Closing of Symposium
Posters
Zooplankton Session
		Beaugrand and Ibanez		A proposed procedure combining plankton indicators and numerical techniques to monitor plankton ecosystem changes and their implication for higher trophic level
		Dolgov et al.		The effect of environmental factors on the role of macroplankton of different ecological groups in the feeding of Northeast Arctic cod
		Filin and Zhukova		The role of krill in climate – cod relations in the Barents Sea
		Greve et al.		On the phenology of North Sea ichthyoplankton
		Pedersen		Life history and feeding of capelin larvae compared to cod and herring – consequences for linkage to climatic variability
		Prokopchuk and Sentyabov		Diet of spring-spawning herring, mackerel and blue whiting related to Calanus finmarchicus distribution and hydrography in the Norwegian Sea
		Torgersen and Huse		Decomposing variability in advection risk of Calanus finmarchicus into its spatial and temporal components
		Varpe and Fiksen		The interactions between herring and Calanus finmarchicus in the Norwegian Sea; a bioenergetics approach
Distribution Session
		Didzis		Changes in flounder distribution in the Eastern Baltic
		Dolgov and Karsakov		The influence of environmental conditions on distribution of different fish species in the Barents Sea
		Drinkwater		Marine ecosystem responses to the warming of 1920s and 1930s
		Ostrowski and Stromme		Evolution of coastal SST in the northeast subtropical Atlantic 1990 2001 and distribution patterns of small pelagic fish from Mauritania to Morocco
		Pedchenko		The role of interannual environmental variations in geographic range of spawning and feeding concentrations of redfish Sebastes mentella in the Irminger Sea
		Thorsteinsson		Feeding migrations of adult cod (Gadus morhua L.) to thermal fronts in Icelandic waters
		Vinnichenko and Sentyabov		The influence of environmental changes on distribution of haddock on the Rockall Bank
Climate and Management Session
		Dickey-Collas et al.		Herring stocks at risk from climate change: Implications for management and assessment
		Drinkwater et al.		The influence of wind and temperature on the catch rate of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) during spring fisheries off eastern Canada
		Goñi and Arrizabalaga		Analysis of surface gear catchability and stock assessment of albacore (Thunnus alalunga) in the North Atlantic
		Kell et al.		Implications for stock assessment and management of environmental variability on Northeast Atlantic albacore
		Titov		Study of the relationship between the NE Arctic cod recruitment and climate change and variations in saturation of the Barents Sea bottom layers with oxygen
Production Session-Recruitment and Transport
		Arregui		A neural network stock-recruitment-environment model applied to the North Atlantic albacore (Thunnus alalunga).
		Batrak		Impact of the long-term changes in thermohaline characteristics of water masses in the northern North Atlantic on the state of cod and herring stocks
		Borisov et al.		Environment is determinative for recruitment formation of the Northeast Arctic cod (Gadus morhua L.) stock
		Klyashtorin and Lyubushin		Cyclic fluctuations of climate and commercial fish populations in the North Atlantic and North Pacific: Approaches to prediction.
		Krovnin and Moury		Large-scale fluctuations of main commercial fish stocks in the North Atlantic in the context of climatic changes
		Logemann et al.		Simulating change and variability of transport pathways in Icelandic waters
		Megrey et al.		Comparative analysis of statistical tools to identify recruitment-environment relationships and forecast recruitment strength
		Porteiro et al.		The Galician sardine fishery (1990-1999) in relation to atmospheric and oceanographic events in the North East Atlantic
		Trofimov et al.		The effect of circulation and vertical structure on abundance of the Barents Sea cod (Gadus morhua morhua L.) year-classes in early ontogeny
Production Session-Growth, Condition, Reproduction and Mortality
		Anderson et al.		Simulating climate-driven contrasting hydrographic conditions on spatio-temporal patterns in Baltic cod egg survival
		Bondarenko et al.		Survival index as an integrated indicator of environmental conditions in the period of early ontogenesis of North Atlantic commercial fish stocks
		Dutil et al.		Differences in growth performance at four temperatures between wild-caught Atlantic cod living under two different ambient temperature regimes.
		Folkvord		Comparison of size-at-age of larval cod (Gadus morhua L.) from different populations based on a temperature and size dependent growth model
		Godiksen et al.		Effects of prey size and type on predation intensity from herring and sand eel on capelin larvae in the Barents Sea
		Kristiansen		Modelling growth in larval cod from temperature, body size and food ration.
		Lapointe et al.		Thermal sensibility in the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) : effect on aerobic capacity and swimming performance
		Ouellet		The impacts of variability in spring / early summer water temperatures on hatching size of lobster (Homarus americanus) larvae
		Gonzalez-Pola et al.		A decrease in larval survival of mackerel after an intense spring strong wind event in the southwest Bay of Biscay.
		Sundby and Nokken		Spawning habitats of Arcto-Norwegian cod and climate change
		Yoneda and Wright		Effect of temperature and food availability on reproductive investment of first-time spawning Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua
Production Session - Ecosystem
		Hunt et al.		Bering Ecosystem Study program (BEST)
		Hunt et al.		Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS)
		Orlova et al.		Relationships between plankton, capelin and cod of the Barents Sea under climatic fluctuations