Annual report 2006 - North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES). Fifteenth meeting, Yokohama, Japan, October 13-22, 2006

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◾ Report of Opening Session (p. 1) ◾ Report of Governing Council (p. 15) ◾ Report of the Finance and Administration Committee (p. 47) ◾ Reports of Science Board and Committees:Science Board Inter-sessional Meeting (p. 63); Science Board (p. 73); Biological Oceanography Committee (p. 87);Fishery Science Committee (p. 95);Marine Environmental Quality Committee (p. 105);MONITOR Technical Committee (p. 115);Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee (p. 125);Technical Committee on Data Exchange (p. 133)◾ Reports of Sections, Working and Study Groups:Section on Carbon and Climate (p. 139);Section on Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms in the North Pacific (p. 143);Working Group 18 on Mariculture in the 21st Century - The Intersection Between Ecology, Socio-economics and Production (p. 147);Working Group 19 on Ecosystem-Based Management Science and its Application to the North Pacific (p. 151);Working Group 20 on Evaluations of Climate Change Projections (p. 157);Working Group 21 on Non-indigenous Aquatic Species (p. 159);Study Group to Develop a Strategy for GOOS (p. 165)◾ Reports of the Climate Change and Carrying Capacity Scientific Program:Implementation Panel on the CCCC Program (p. 169);CFAME Task Team (p. 175);MODEL Task Team (p. 181) ◾ Reports of Advisory Panels:Advisory Panel for a CREAMS/PICES Program in East Asian Marginal Seas (p. 187);Advisory Panel on Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey in the North Pacific (p. 193);Advisory Panel on Iron Fertilization Experiment in the Subarctic Pacific Ocean (p. 197);Advisory Panel on Marine Birds and Mammals (p. 201);Advisory Panel on Micronekton Sampling Inter-calibration Experiment (p. 205)◾ Summary of Scientific Sessions and Workshops (p. 209)◾ Membership List (p. 259)◾ List of Participants (p. 277)◾ List of PICES Acronyms (p. 301)◾ List of Acronyms (p. 303)