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arctic fisheries in focus

“The Arctic region is warming, faster on average than the rest of the planet,” noted Ambassador David Balton, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State, in a March 2009 interview with FAO Radio of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Managing Resources for a Changing Arctic

19-21 October 2009
Hotel Captain Cook, Anchorage, Alaska

The International Arctic Fisheries Symposium is designed to initiate international discussions for conserving and managing future fisheries in the Arctic Ocean, including managing migratory, transboundary and straddling fish stocks.

The symposium will identify current management regimes in the Arctic region and how relevant scientific and fisheries data can be used to inform future management decisions.

The symposium will identify gaps in existing management regimes and potential steps to address those gaps, as well as the need for improved scientific programs to support conservation and management of future Arctic fisheries.

The symposium is being organized by the Institute of the North in coordination with the U.S. Department of State, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the North Pacific Research Board, and other fisheries agencies, non-profit organizations and stakeholders.

We anticipate 200 participants from throughout the Arctic, as well as fisheries managers and scientists from Japan, China and South Korea.

Keynote speakers

  • Alaska Governor Sean Parnell
  • Senators Lisa Murkowski
  • Senator Mark Begich
  • U.S. Ambassador David Balton

International fisheries experts speaking at the event

  • William Cheung, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
  • Tomas Heidar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iceland
  • Lene Kielsen Holm, ICC Greenland
  • Kjartan Hoydal, Northeast Atlantic Fisheries Commission
  • Terje Løbach, Directorate of Fisheries, Norway
  • Harald Loeng, Institute of Marine Research, Norway
  • Erik Molenaar, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • Andrey Pedchenko, State Research Institute on Lake And River Fisheries (GOSNIORKH), Russian Federation
  • Oleg Rykov, Russian Federation
  • Reidar Toresen, Institute of Marine Research, Norway