• Acronym: FIS
• Parent Committee: SB
• Chair: Dr. Jackie R. King <Jackie.King@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
  Vice-Chair: Dr. Naoki Tojo <bering.raven@gmail.com>
• Mailing List
• Past Chairs:
  Xianshi Jin (Oct. 2017 – Oct. 2023, China)
  Elizabeth A. Logerwell (Oct. 2011 – Oct. 2017, USA)
  Mikhail Stepanenko (Oct. 2008 – Oct. 2011, Russia)
  Gordon H. Kruse (Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2008, USA)
  Yukimasa Ishida (Oct. 2002 – Oct. 2005, Japan)
  Douglas E. Hay (Oct. 1999 – Oct. 2002, Canada)
  Chang-Ik Zhang (Oct. 1996 – Oct. 1999, Korea)
  Qi-Sheng Tang (Oct. 1993 – Oct. 1996, China; acting Chairman Oct. 1992 – Oct. 1993)
  Daniel M. Ware (Oct. 1992; elected as a formality before accepting Chairmanship for Science Board)
• Past Vice-Chairs:
  Jackie King (Oct. 2017 – Oct. 2023, Canada)
  Xianshi Jin (Oct. 2011 – Oct. 2017, China)
  Gordon H. Kruse (Oct. 2008 – Oct. 2011, USA)
• Action Plan

The FIS Committee's area of responsibility is to promote and coordinate fisheries science and interdisciplinary research in the northern North Pacific. This would include biology and ecology of living resources, particularly those that are subject to harvest or have the potential to be harvested. Topics could include taxonomy, genetics, behaviour, trophic relationships, habitat, distribution, abundance, population dynamics, and methods for stock assessment. Focus is on the relationship between human factors and climate on the fluctuations of these resources.

S-CCME: Joint PICES/ICES Section on Climate Change Effects on Marine Ecosystems
(PICES-2011 - PICES-2025), (also reports to BIO and POC)

WG 53: Joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Sustainable Pelagic Forage Communities
(June 2024 – PICES-2027)

WG 44: Joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Integrated Ecosystem Assessment for the Northern Bering Sea - Chukchi Sea
(PICES-2019 - PICES-2023), (also reports to HD)

WG 45: Joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Impacts of Warming on Growth Rates and Fisheries Yields (GRAFY)
(Aug. 2020 - PICES-2024)

SG-ARC: Study Group on the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Gateways
(PICES-2022 - ISB/IGC 2024), (also reports to SB and MONITOR)

WG 43: Joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Small Pelagic Fish
(Term: Dec. 2019 - PICES-2023) (Disbanded: IGC-2024)

WG 34: Joint PICES/ICS Working Group on Ocean Conditions and the Distribution and Productivity of Highly Migratory Fish
(PICES-2015 - PICES-2020)

WG 25: Joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Fish and Shellfish
(Jan. 2009 - PICES-2011) (also reported to POC)

WG 24: Working Group on Environmental Interactions of Marine Aquaculture
(PICES-2008 - PICES-2012) (also reported to MEQ)

WG 19: Working Group on Ecosystem-Based Management Science and its Application to the North Pacific
(PICES-2004 - PICES-2009) (also reported to MEQ)

WG 18: Working Group on Mariculture in the 21st Century - The Intersection between Ecology, Socio-Economics and Production
(PICES-2003 - PICES-2006) (also reported to MEQ)

WG 16: Working Group on Climate Change, Shifts in Fish Production, and Fisheries Management
(PICES-1999 - PICES-2005)

SG-EBM: Study Group on Ecosystem-Based Management Science and its Application to the North Pacific
(PICES-2003 - PICES-2004) (also reported to MEQ)

WG 12: Working Group on Crabs and Shrimps
(PICES-1995 - PICES-2001)

WG 10: Working Group on Circulation and Ventilation in the Japan/East Sea
(PICES-1995 - PICES-1999)

WG 3: Working Group on Dynamics of Small Pelagics in Coastal Ecosystems
(PICES-1992 - PICES-1995)