Co-Convenors: Keith Criddle (USA), Suam Kim (Korea), Mitsutaku Makino (Japan), Ian Perry (Canada), Yasunori Sakurai (Japan) and Anatoliy Velikanov (Russia)

Invited Speakers:
Oleg Bulatov (Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Russia)
Alan Haynie (Alaska Fisheries Science Center)

In order to build bridges between scientists, decision-makers, stakeholders, and across sectors, there is a need for more in-depth and concrete inter-disciplinary research framework in the context of the PICES integrative science program FUTURE. One of the typical groundfish resources in the North Pacific, pollock is highlighted to facilitate such academic discussions under the PICES framework. Research on walleye pollock from the perspectives of ecology, biology, stock dynamics, harvesting, fisheries management, history, marketing, processing, international trade, consumption, and culture will be presented. Inter-relationships among these varied perspectives, information needs, potential values for other disciplines, etc., will be discussed during this session. An expected outcome of this session will be a holistic framework for the inter-disciplinary research, which could be applied to other species.