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Description: •The 2013 Inter-sessional Science Board Meeting: A Note from the Science Board Chairman (pp. 1-4)•ICES/PICES Workshop on Global Assessment of the Implications of Climate Change on the Spatial Distribution of Fish and Fisheries (pp. 5-8)•PICES participates in a Convention on Biological Diversity Regional Workshop (pp. 9-11)•Social and Economic Indicators for Status and Change within North Pacific Ecosystems (pp. 12-13)•The Fourth International Jellyfish Bloom Symposium (pp. 14-15)•Workshop on Radionuclide Science and Environmental Quality in the North Pacific (pp. 16-17)•PICES-MAFF Project on Marine Ecosystem Health and Human Well-Being: Indonesia Workshop (pp. 18-19)•Socioeconomic Indicators for United States Fisheries and Fishing Communities (pp. 20-23)•Harmful Algal Blooms in a Changing World (pp. 24-25, 27)•Enhancing Scientific Cooperation between PICES and NPAFC (pp. 26-27)•Workshop on Marine Biodiversity Conservation and Marine Protected Areas in the Northwest Pacific (pp. 28-29)•The State of the Western North Pacific in the Second Half of 2012 (pp. 30-31)•Stuck in Neutral in the Northeast Pacific Ocean (pp. 32-33)•The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Trends (pp. 34-36)•For your Bookshelf (p. 37)•Howard Freeland takes home Canadian awards (p. 38)

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Description: ◾PICES Science in 2007 (pdf, 0.1 Mb)◾2007 Wooster Award (pdf, 0.1 Mb)◾FUTURE - A milestone reached but our task is not done (pdf, 〈 0.1 Mb)◾International symposium on "Reproductive and Recruitment Processes of Exploited Marine Fish Stocks" (pdf, 0.1 Mb)◾Recent results of the micronekton sampling inter-calibration experiment (pdf, 0.1 Mb)◾2007 PICES workshop on "Measuring and monitoring primary productivity in the North Pacific" (pdf, 0.1 Mb)◾2007 Harmful Algal Bloom Section annual workshop events (pdf, 0.1 Mb) ◾A global approach for recovery and sustainability of marine resources in Large Marine Ecosystems (pdf, 0.3 Mb)◾Highlights of the PICES Sixteenth Annual Meeting (pdf, 0.4 Mb)◾Ocean acidification of the North Pacific Ocean (pdf, 0.3 Mb)◾Workshop on NE Pacific Coastal Ecosystems (2008 Call for Salmon Survival Forecasts) (pdf, 0.1 Mb)◾The state of the western North Pacific in the first half of 2007 (pdf, 0.4 Mb)◾PICES Calendar (pdf, 0.4 Mb)◾The Bering Sea: Current status and recent events (pdf, 0.3 Mb)◾PICES Interns (pdf, 0.3 Mb)◾Recent trends in waters of the subarctic NE Pacific (pdf, 0.3 Mb)◾Election results at PICES (pdf, 0.2 Mb)◾A new PICES award for monitoring and data management activities (pdf, 〈 0.1 Mb)

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Description: •2011 PICES Science: A Note from the Science Board Chairman (pp. 1-6)•2011 PICES Awards (pp. 7-9)•Beyond the Terrible Disaster of the Great East Japan Earthquake (pp. 10-12)•A New Era of PICES-ICES Scientific Cooperation (p. 13)•New PICES Jellyfish Working Group Formed (pp. 14-15)•PICES Working Group on North Pacific Climate Variability (pp. 16-18)•Final U.S. GLOBEC Symposium and Celebration (pp. 19-25)•2011 PICES Rapid Assessment Survey (pp. 26-29)•Introduction to Rapid Assessment Survey Methodologies for Detecting Non-indigenous Marine Species (pp. 30-31)•The 7th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions (pp. 32-33)•NOWPAP/PICES/WESTPAC Training Course on Remote Sensing Data Analysis (pp. 34-36)•PICES-2011 Workshop on “Trends in Marine Contaminants and their Effects in a Changing Ocean” (pp. 37-39)•The State of the Western North Pacific in the First Half of 2011 (pp. 40-42)•Yeosu Symposium theme sessions (p. 42)•The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Events (pp. 43-44)•News of the Northeast Pacific Ocean (pp. 45-47)•Recent and Upcoming PICES Publications (p. 47)•New leadership for the PICES Fishery Science Committee (p. 48)

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Description: •The 2010 Inter-sessional Science Board Meeting: A Note from the Science Board Chairman (pp. 1-3)•2010 Symposium on “Effects of Climate Change on Fish and Fisheries” (pp. 4-11)•2009 Mechanism of North Pacific Low Frequency Variability Workshop (pp. 12-14)•The Fourth China-Japan-Korea GLOBEC/IMBER Symposium (pp. 15-17, 23)•2010 Sendai Ocean Acidification Workshop (pp. 18-19, 31)•2010 Sendai Coupled Climate-to-Fish-to-Fishers Models Workshop (pp. 20-21)•2010 Sendai Salmon Workshop on Climate Change (pp. 22-23)•2010 Sendai Zooplankton Workshop (pp. 24-25, 28)•2010 Sendai Workshop on “Networking across Global Marine Hotspots” (pp. 26-28)•The Ocean, Salmon, Ecology and Forecasting in 2010 (pp. 29, 44)•The State of the Northeast Pacific during the Winter of 2009/2010 (pp. 30-31)•The State of the Western North Pacific in the Second Half of 2009 (pp. 32-33)•The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Events (pp. 34-35, 39)•PICES Seafood Safety Project: Guatemala Training Program (pp. 36-39)•The Pacific Ocean Boundary Ecosystem and Climate Study (POBEX) (pp. 40-43)•PICES Calendar (p. 44)

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Description: Study on the biomarkers types to assess health status of marine ecosystems in environmental biomonitoring has an important value. Accordingly, accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs) in sediment, water and tissues (liver and gill) of mudskipper(i.e. Boleophthalmus dussumieri) and some physiological responses like lysosomal membrane change performed on haemocytes, stability of red blood cell membrane and the Glutathione-S Transferase (GST) activity in the liver were measured in mudskipper. Samples were obtained from five sites along north western coast of the Persian Gulf (Khuzestan coast). Red blood cell membrane changes after different concentration of PAHs at different time was also studied to evaluate impact of PAHs compound on cell membrane. PAHs concentration was measured by HPLC method. The activity of GST enzyme was analysed by spectrophotometric method. Lysosomal membrane change was measured by NRR time method and stability of red blood cell membrane was evaluated by EOF test. Total PAH concentrations in the coastal sea water, the sediments, theliver and the gill tissues ranged between 0.80-18.34 μg/l, 113.50-3384.34 ng g-1 (dry weight), 3.99-46.64 ng g-1 dw and 3.11-17.76 ng g-1 dw, respectively.Highest PAHs pollution was found at Jafari while the lowest was detected at Bahrakan sampling sites. The lowest enzymatic activity was identified at Bahrakan (7.19 ± 1.541 nmol/mg protein/min), while the highest was recordedat Jafari (46.96 ± 7.877 nmol/mg protein/min). Comparative analysis of GST activity in the liver of mudskippers showed significant difference (p 〈 0.05) between the locations of Jafari and Bahrakan, and with other sites. Moreover, nosignificant difference was detected between the locations of Arvand, Zangi and Samayeli (p 〈 0.05). The mean RT was below 90 minutes in all sampling sites.Values of mean RT of the dye ranged from 34 (for the blood samples of mudskipper collected from Jafari site) to 78 minutes (for the blood samples of mudskipper collected from Bahrakan site). Spatial evaluation revealed the longest RT in fish from Bahrakan as compared with those from other sites.Preliminary results showed a significant difference (p 〈 0.05) among sampling sites except between Arvand and Zangi (p 〉 0.05). Osmotic fragility curves indicated that erythrocytes collected from mudskippers at Jafari were the most 009fragile followed by Zangi〉 Arvand〉 Samayeli〉 and Bahrakan. The mean erythrocyte fragility was significantly higher at Jafari site (p 〈 0.05) when compared to other sites. Significant differences were found between the varioussites (p 〈 0.05).The result indicated no significant differences between the control and treatments of mudskipper RBC exposed to field concentrations of PAHs (P〉0.05). The results further indicated significant differences (P〈0.05) between the control and treatments of mudskipper RBC exposed to acute. Potency Divisor concentrations. It is clear from the present result that chronic. Potency Divisor concentrations protect red cells against osmotic hemolysis. This study, however, showed that PAH concentrations in this region are not higher than the available standards. The findings showed that Lysosomal membrane destabilization, liver GST activities and fragility of red cell membrane are highly sensitive in the mudskipper, B. dussumieri. Thus, mudskipper perceived to begood sentinel organisms for PAH pollution monitoring. Sediment PAH concentrations were strongly correlated with biomarkers, indicating that PAH type pollutants were biologically available to fish. One of the possible riskassessment implications of this study is that biomarkers can be applied not only to characterize biological effects of pollution exposures, but also to determine the bioavailability of pollution in aquatic systems. The results also indicated that PAHs compound possess anti haemolytic property.

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Description: Advisors:P. Eghtesadi Araghi, A. Mashinchian Counsellors: M. R. Fatemi, G. Riazi

Description: •The 2011 Inter-sessional Science Board Meeting: A Note from Science Board Chairman (pp. 1-4)•Indicators for Status and Change within North Pacific Marine Ecosystems: A FUTURE Workshop (pp. 5-8)•PICES Calendar (p. 8)•2011 ESSAS Open Science Meeting (pp. 9-13)•The 5th Zooplankton Production Symposium (pp. 14-17)•Workshop on "Individual-Based Models of Zooplankton” (pp. 18-21)•New Book Release on the 100th Anniversary of the T/S Osharu Maru (p. 21)•Workshop on “Advances in Genomic and Molecular Studies of Zooplankton” (pp. 22-24)•Workshop on “Updates and Comparisons of Zooplankton Time Series” (pp. 25-27)•Workshop on “Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Zooplankton” (pp. 28-29)•Workshop on “Automated Visual Plankton Identification” (p. 30)•Professor Plum in the Dining Room with a Knife (p. 31)•PICES and ICES on the River Elbe (p. 32)•The State of the Western North Pacific in the Second Half of 2010 (pp. 33-34)•The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Events (pp. 35-37)•Northeast Pacific News (pp. 38-39)•PICES Advice on Marine Ecology at a Canadian Judicial Inquiry (p. 40)

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Description: •2010 PICES Science: A Note from the Former Science Board Chairman (pp. 1-4)•2010 PICES Awards (pp. 5-7)•The First Year of FUTURE: A Progress Report (pp. 8-13)•New Chairmen in PICES (pp. 14-19)•Pacific Ocean Interior Carbon Data Synthesis, PACIFICA, in Progress (pp. 20-23)•2011 PICES Calendar (p. 23)•Ecosystems 2010: Global Progress on Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management (pp. 24-26)•PICES 2010 Rapid Assessment Survey (pp. 27-29)•PICES Workshop on “An Introduction to Rapid Assessment Survey Methodologies for Application in Developing Countries” (pp. 30-31)•The State of the Western North Pacific in the First Half of 2010 (pp. 32-34)•PICES Interns (p. 34)•The State of the Bering Sea in 2010 (pp. 35-37)•The State of the Northeast Pacific in 2010 (pp. 38-40)

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Description: •Major Outcomes from the 2009 PICES Annual Meeting: A Note from the Chairman (pp. 1-3, 8)•PICES Science – 2009 (pp. 4-8)•2009 PICES Awards (pp. 9-10)•New Chairmen in PICES (pp. 11-15)•PICES Interns (p. 15)•The State of the Western North Pacific in the First Half of 2009 (pp. 16-17, 27)•The State of the Northeast Pacific in 2009 (pp. 18-19)•The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Events (pp. 20-21)•2009 PICES Summer School on “Satellite Oceanography for the Earth Environment” (pp. 22-25)•2009 International Conference on “Marine Bioinvasions” (pp. 26-27)•A New PICES Working Group Holds Workshop and Meeting in Jeju Island (pp. 28-29)•The Second Marine Ecosystem Model Inter-comparison Workshop (pp. 30-32) •ICES/PICES/UNCOVER Symposium on “Rebuilding Depleted Fish Stocks – Biology, Ecology, Social Science and Management Strategies” (pp. 33-35)•2009 North Pacific Synthesis Workshop (pp. 36-37)•2009 PICES Rapid Assessment Survey (pp. 38-40)

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Description: •2012 PICES Science: A Note from the Science Board Chairman (pp. 1-6)◾2012 PICES Awards (pp. 7-9)◾GLOBEC/PICES/ICES ECOFOR Workshop (pp. 10-15)◾ICES/PICES Symposium on “Forage Fish Interactions” (pp. 16-18)◾The Yeosu Declaration, the Yeosu Declaration Forum and the Yeosu Project (pp. 19-23)◾2013 PICES Calendar (p. 23)◾Why Do We Need Human Dimensions for the FUTURE Program? (pp. 24-25)◾New PICES MAFF-Sponsored Project on “Marine Ecosystem Health and Human Well-Being” (pp. 26-28)◾The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Trends (pp. 29-31)◾Continuing Cool in the Northeast Pacific Ocean (pp. 32, 35)◾The State of the Western North Pacific in the First Half of 2012 (pp. 33-35)◾New Leadership in PICES (pp. 36-39)

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Description: •The 2012 Inter-sessional Science Board Meeting: A Note from Science Board Chairman (pp. 1-4)◾PICES Interns (p. 4)◾2012 Inter-sessional Workshop on a Roadmap for FUTURE (pp. 5-8)◾Second Symposium on “Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans” (pp. 9-13)◾2012 Yeosu Workshop on “Framework for Ocean Observing” (pp. 14-15)◾2012 Yeosu Workshop on “Climate Change Projections” (pp. 16-17)◾2012 Yeosu Workshop on “Coastal Blue Carbon” (pp. 18-20)◾Polar Comparisons: Summary of 2012 Yeosu Workshop (pp. 21-23)◾2012 Yeosu Workshop on “Climate Change and Range Shifts in the Oceans" (pp. 24-27)◾2012 Yeosu Workshop on “Beyond Dispersion” (pp. 28-30)◾2012 Yeosu Workshop on “Public Perception of Climate Change” (pp. 31, 50)◾PICES Working Group 20: Accomplishments and Legacy (pp. 32-33)◾The State of the Western North Pacific in the Second Half of 2011 (pp. 34-35)◾Another Cold Winter in the Gulf of Alaska (pp. 36-37)◾The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Events (pp. 38-40)◾PICES/ICES 2012 Conference for Early Career Marine Scientists (pp. 41-43)◾Completion of the PICES Seafood Safety Project – Indonesia (pp. 44-46)◾Oceanography Improves Salmon Forecasts (p. 47)◾2012 GEOHAB Open Science Meeting (p. 48-50)◾Shin-ichi Ito awarded 2011 Uda Prize (p. 50)

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