Working Group 12: Crabs and shrimps
  • Acronym: WG 12
  • Parent Committee: FIS
  • Term: Oct. 1995 - Oct. 2001
  • Co-Chairs:
    Robert S. Otto (USA)
    Vitaly E. Rodin (Russia)
Terms of Reference
  1. Consider those crabs, shrimps and lobsters that are utilized in a commercial, subsistence or recreational fisheries. This may include introduced species if they are directly important or impact human utilization of any other marine species;
  2. Identify organizations and key contacts from each that are performing scientific work on the distribution, recruitment, larval transport, migration, population dynamics, and influences of environmental conditions for crabs and shrimp;
  3. Identify data that are available that would assist in the analyses of factors affecting abundance trends;
  4. Review and exchange current knowledge and data concerning factors affecting abundance and survival of crabs, shrimps and spiny lobsters and identify key scientific questions regarding reasons for abundance fluctuations.
Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

1999, 1998, 1997, 1996

PICES Scientific Report
PICES Sci. Rep. No. 19, 2001
Commercially important Crabs, Shrimps and Lobsters of the North Pacific Ocean
Members
Jim Boutillier
Department of Fisheries & Oceans
Pacific Biological Station
3190 Hammond Bay Road,
Nanaimo, B.C.,
Canada. V9R 5K6
boutillierj@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Glen Jamieson
Department of Fisheries & Oceans
Pacific Biological Station
3190 Hammond Bay Road,
Nanaimo, B.C.,
Canada. V9R 5K6
jamiesong@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Y. Ogawa
Institute of Biological Sciences
The University of Tsukuba
Sakura-mura, Niihari-gun,
Ibaraki 305
Japan
Hideo. Sekiguchi
Faculty of Bioresources
Mie University
1515 Kamihama-cho,
Tsu, Mie,
Japan. 514
sekiguchi@bio.mie-u.ac.jp
I. Yosho
Groundfish Section
Japan Sea Fisheries Research Institute
5939-22 Suido-cho, 1-chome,
Niigata, Niigata-ken,
Japan. 951
R. Shengmin
Fisheries Resources
Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute
106 Nanjing Road,
Qingdao, Shandong,
People’s Republic of China. 266071
Zhi-Ming Zhuang
Yellow Sea Fisheries Research
Institute, CAFS
106 Nanjing Road
Qingdao, Shandong
People's Republic of China. 266071
zhuangzm@ysfri.ac.cn
Sung-Yun Hong
Pukyong National University
599-1 Daeyeon-dong, Nam-gu
Pusan,
Republic of Korea. 608-737
syhong@dolphin.pknu.ac.kr
In-Ja Yeon
Department of Marine Fisheries Biology
West Sea Fisheries Research Institute
National Fisheries Research & Development Agency
Incheon,
Republic of Korea. 400-201
ijyeon@haema.nfrda.re.kr
Chang-Ik Zhang
Pukyong National University
599-1 Daeyeon-dong, Nam-ku,
Pusan,
Republic of Korea. 608-737
Boris G. Ivanov
Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography (VINIRO)
17 Verkhnyaya Krasnoselskaya
Moscow
Russia 107140
borivanov@vniro.ru
Vitaly E. Rodin
Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography (TINRO)
Shevchenko Alley,
Vladivostok,
Russia. 690600
root@tinro.marine.su.
Yuliya B. Zaitseva
Russia
David A. Armstrong
School of Fisheries
University of Washington
Box 357980,
Seattle, WA 98195
U.S.A.
daa@fish.washington.edu.
L.W. Botsford
Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology,
University of California,
One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8751,
USA
Robert S. Otto
U.S. Department of Commerce
NOAA
National Marine Fisheries Service
P.O. Box 1638,
Kodiak, AK 99615-1638
U.S.A.
robert.s.otto@noaa.gov