Andrew Bakun (General Plenary)
Progress in small pelagic fish research in the 3½ decades since ‘Costa Rica’

Shoshiro Minobe (General Plenary)
Causality linkages in atmosphere, ocean and marine ecosystem over the North Pacific: Modes, processes and prediction

David Field (Plenary S1)
Fish scale records from California and Peru reveal new paradigms of variability in climate and small pelagic fish
[Contact presenter]

Stylianos Somarakis (Plenary S2)
From egg production to year class strength: A full life cycle perspective of small pelagic fish recruitment

Ratana Chuenpagdee (Plenary S6)
Small fish, big stake: Vulnerability and adaptation of small-scale small pelagic fisheries to global changes

Manuel Barange (Plenary S6)
State of small pelagic fish resources and its implications for food security and nutrition

Ryan R. Rykaczewski (General Plenary)
Climate impacts on upwelling and the planktonic prey of anchovy and sardine in eastern boundary currents

Reidar Toresen (Plenary S4)
Methods for assessment of small pelagic fish populations, - do we cope with it?

Sophie Bertrand (Plenary S3, 100 Mb)
How much, where and when? A seabird eye-view on forage fish dynamics and management

Kwame A. Koranteng (Plenary S5)
Will ecosystem approach to fisheries improve our understanding of, and ability to manage, human impacts on variable fish populations?

Symposium Summary

Session 1 Summary
Environmental control of spatio-temporal changes in population size, distribution and migration of small pelagic fish in the ecosystem context

Session 2 Summary
External drivers of change in early life history, growth and recruitment processes of small pelagic fish

Session 3 Summary
The role of small pelagic fish in food web dynamics between plankton and top predators

Session 4 Summary
Comparison of methods for assessment of small pelagic fish populations

Session 5 Summary
Future challenges for ecosystem-based management of highly variable fish populations

Session 6 Summary
Small pelagic fish and humans – social, economic and institutional dimensions

Bryan A. Black (Invited)
Synchrony in climate and biological response within and among the Benguela and California Current ecosystems

Carmen Grados
Interdecadal upper ocean hydrology of the Northern Humboldt Current System and its impact on the small pelagic fish distribution

Karen Walker
Environmental impact on fluctuations of juvenile sardine (Strangomera bentincki) in the central-southern Chile (32°-47°S)

Antonio Fernando Aranis
Conceptual model for common sardine (Strangomera bentincki) in the south central zone of Chile (32°-47°S)

Giancarlo Moron
Effects of ENSO phases on Peruvian anchovy spatial aggregation patterns
[Contact presenter]

Carola Hernández Santoro
Effects of El Niño 1997-98; 2002-03 and 2015-16 in spatial distribution, concentration of catch and reproductive activity of anchovy in northern Chile

Carolina Lang
Modelling the habitat of anchovy (Engraulis ringens) between 2007 - 2016 off the coast of the Southeast Pacific

Josymar Torrejon-Magallanes
Displacements of the Peruvian anchoveta stocksin relation to environmental conditions: An analysis using length structure analysis from Vessel Monitoring System information

Dimitri Gutierrez
Multifarious anchovy and sardine regimes in the Humboldt Current System during the last 150 years

David M. Checkley, Jr.
Climate, anchovy and sardine

Dimitri Gutiérrez
Recent trends in the Peruvian Coastal Upwelling Ecosystem and implications for the anchovy habitat

Jorge Csirke
Evidences anthropogenic and environmentally driven regime shifts in Peruvian pelagic fisheries

Renato Guevara-Carrasco
Are there early signals of a new warmer “sardine cycle” in the Peruvian upwelling system? Some implications for fisheries management

Ana Alegre
Diet diversity of jack and chub mackerels and ecosystem changes in the northern Humboldt Current system: A long-term study

Daniel Grados
Impact of ocean stratification on small-scale physical oases for pelagic life

Joana Boavida-Portugal
Global diversity and abundance of small pelagic fishes in the end of the 21st century
[Contact presenter]

Sam McClatchie
Collapse and recovery of forage fish populations before commercial fishing

Ruben Rodriguez-Sanchez
Tracking the spatial dynamic of sardine abundance changes in the California Current large marine ecosystem: An approach to elucidate local and broad scale environmental drivers and their interactions

Juan P. Zwolinski
Use of environmental indices to predict the recruitment of Pacific sardine
[Contact presenter]

Dimitris V. Politikos
Climate variability and recruitment dynamics of sardine in the California Current: A mechanistic analysis of an end-to-end model
[Contact presenter]

Désirée Tommasi
Seasonal climate predictions to improve forage fish management

William J. Sydeman
Non-fishery collapse of northern anchovy in California: Climatic and biotic hypotheses

Romeo Saldívar-Lucio
Primary productivity contribution to climate-catch models of Pacific sardine

Doug Hay
Temporal changes in size-at-age: Impact and implications on reproductive biology and egg density of Pacific herring in British Columbia

Sourav Maity
Exceptional fish beaching off Arthungal, Alappuzha, along the southwest coast of India: Search for the possible cause
[Contact presenter]

Vanessa Izquierdo-Peña
Revisiting the regime problem hypothesis: 25 years later

Shuyang Ma
Variations in the catches of small pelagic fishes from China seas and their responses to climatic regime shifts

Aida Sartimbul
Catch dynamics of small pelagic fishes in Bali Strait and South Java Sea in relation to the climatic regime shift: Case study on Sardinella lemuru

Mutiara R. Putri
The influence of ocean dynamics and climate changes on the Lemuru (Bali Sardinella) abundance in the Bali Strait, Indonesia

Miguel Ñiquen
Size structure based associations between anchoveta and other pelagic resources in Peruvian waters

Brian P.V. Hunt
Energy transfer efficiency from zooplankton to forage fish over a eutrophic to oligotrophic gradient in global pelagic food-webs

Pablo Brosset
Small pelagic fish in the Mediterranean Sea: Alarming body condition and size decline during the last decades

George Triantafyllou
A full-life-cycle multispecies IBM for Mediterranean small pelagic fish

Nikolaos Nikolioudakis
Spatio-temporal modelling of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) distribution: Introducing estimates of uncertainty and going beyond ‘visual’ correlations

Jürgen Alheit
Ocean-atmosphere interactions related to the AMO caused simultaneous ‘regime shift’-like changes in ecosystems of eastern North Atlantic and Mediterranean in the mid-1990s
[Contact presenter]

Maite Erauskin
Will climate change impact the anchovy spawning habitat in the Bay of Biscay?

Piera Carpi
Storytelling based on a data limited situation: Dynamics of a small pelagic community in the Northeast Atlantic

Anna H. Olafsdottir
Expansion of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) in the Nordic seas from 2007 to 2015 in relation to stock size and environmental conditions

Geir Huse
Norwegian spring spawning herring migration and feeding at the Arctic front

Svein Sundby
Multidecadal climate signal and its association with the Nordic Seas pelagic fish complex and their zooplankton prey

Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Tendency for climate synchrony and amplification in global fish populations

Hiroaki Saito
A story starting from the wind: A synthesis of the collapse of Japanese sardine stock
[Contact presenter]

Andrey S. Krovnin
Prospects of a new “sardine epoch” in the Northwest Pacific

Marek Ostrowski
From physical mechanisms to natural fluctuations of small pelagic fishes: The Angolan upwelling scenario

Andreia V. Silva
Patterns in chub mackerel abundance and distribution in relation to environmental conditions

Najib Charouki
Spatial time series analysis of the small pelagic fish on the shelf north of Cap Blanc within its upwelling ecosystem

Alexandra Silva
Demographic connectivity of sardine in the Bay of Biscay and Iberian coast region

Timothée Brochier
Population traits in small pelagic fish model: Emergence from interactions between a turbulent upwelling environment and individual behaviors in upwelling systems

Dominique Robert (Invited)
Revealing the link between prey availability during the larval stage and recruitment strength in small pelagic fish

Paul Gatti
Impact of seasonal environmental variability on the bioenergetics strategy of anchovy and sardine: A combined data and modelling study in the Bay of Biscay

Rebecca G. Asch
Testing the reliability of species distribution models: How stable are relationships between small pelagic fishes and oceanographic conditions in the southern California Current ecosystem?
[Contact presenter]

Øystein Skagseth
Environmental drivers of peak recruitment years of Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring (Clupea harengus L.)

Jens-Otto Krakstad
Oceanographic conditions and runoff from Congo River as drivers for Sardinella recruitment off south-western Africa

Guido Plaza
Fast growth and early age-at-recruitment of the anchovy (Engraulis ringens): Evidence from interannual monitoring of otolith microstructure in northern Chile

Emma Pascoe
Quantifying interannual variability in growth and condition of juvenile Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) in the Strait of Georgia, BC

Erling Kåre Stenevik
Mackerel predation on herring larvae during summer feeding in the Norwegian Sea

Eneko Bachiller
Effects of Atlantic mackerel predation on early life stages mortality of anchovy and sardine

Reidar Toresen
Climate change as a causative factor in sustained reduced recruitment in Norwegian spring-spawning herring

Grea Groenewald
Influence of temperature and food availability on anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) dynamics as seen through a Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) model

William Duguid
Historical fluctuations and recent observations of Northern Anchovy in the Salish Sea

Claudia Soares
Validation of daily increments in the otoliths of Atlanto-Iberian sardine larvae (Sardina pilchardus Walbaum, 1792) reared at three different temperatures

Violaine Shikon
Larval capelin dynamics in coastal embayments of eastern Newfoundland

Tessa B. Francis
Does the early bird catch the worm? Shifts in the spawn timing of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) in Puget Sound, USA, and consequences for local abundance trends

Pierre Petitgas
On linking variability in early growth to habitat occupancy and mortality later in life: Anchovy in the Bay of Biscay
[Contact presenter]

Aril Slotte
Use of otolith microstructure analyses to study the relation between larval hatching time, growth and survival in Norwegian spring spawning herring

Claudia Günther
Another critical period: Physiological limits determine recruitment success during the post-larval stage of a temperate clupeid (Sprattus sprattus L.)

Florian Eggers
Do epigenetic effects of parental salinity conditions in herring influence subsequent offspring reproductive success?
[Contact presenter]

Akira Hayashi
Combination of income- and capital-breeder type stocks of Japanese anchovy population

Thassya C. dos Santos Schmidt
How do Atlantic herring and Pacific herring compare in terms of reproductive investment and adult body growth?

Andres Ospina-Alvarez
Designing a reproductive resilience index for small pelagic fish in the southern Humboldt Current Upwelling Ecosystem

Jose-María Quintanilla
Comparative early life trophodynamics and larval growth of Alborán Sea sardine environmentally distinct larval habitats (Bays of Málaga and Almería) (Sardina pilchardus) (W Mediterranean)

Betsy Buitrón
Reproduction history of Peruvian anchovy and its relationship with environmental changes 1961 - 2015

Fabian Zimmermann
Drivers of recruitment dynamics in northeast Atlantic pelagic fish stocks

Myron Peck
Physiological modelling of the foraging and growth of early life stages of small pelagic fish: Fish don’t eat temperature

Marion Claireaux
Is fishing driving energy acquisition and allocation changes in the Norwegian Spring-Spawning herring?

Leonardo Castro
Variations in vertical distribution of anchoveta eggs under contrasting spawning habitat characteristics: An environmental or maternal effect?

Hwahyun Lee
Observed pattern of diel vertical migration of Pacific mackerel larvae and its implication for spatial distribution off the Korean Peninsula

Patricia M. Ayón
Distribution of anchovy and sardine eggs and larvae in the Humboldt Current System of Peru from 1960-2014: Implications for fish abundance and reproduction

Guðmundur J. Óskarsson
Development and nature of widespread and long-lasting Ichthyophonus hoferi outbreak in Icelandic summer-spawning herring

Sebastián Vásquez
A space oddity: The case of the anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) in southern Humboldt Current system

Guillermo Boyra
Spatial dynamics of juvenile anchovy in the Bay of Biscay

Timothée Brochier
Climate change scenario experiments predict a future reduction in small pelagic fish recruitment in the Humboldt Current System

W. Scott Pegau
Herring research and monitoring in Prince William Sound, Alaska

Daigo Kamada
Diet characterization and link between feeding success and recent growth of capelin (Mallotus villosus) during early ontogeny

Franziska Bils
Exploring the microzooplankton-ichthyoplankton link: A combined field and modeling study of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) in the Irish Sea

Quentin Queiros
Mechanisms underlying bottom-up controls of small pelagics in the Gulf of Lions through experimental studies

Sachihiko Itoh
Modeling large-amplitude recruitment variability of small pelagic fish
[Contact presenter]

Matthias Paulsen
Stepping forward in understanding recruitment variability of western Baltic herring

Jennifer Boldt
Juvenile Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) trophic linkages in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
[Contact presenter]

Susana Garrido (Invited)
To eat, to be eaten, and a lot of questions: Understanding the trophic ecology of small pelagic fish

Marta Albo-Puigserver
Ecological and functional role of key fish species from the pelagic community of the Mediterranean Sea

Arezoo Vahabnezhad
Food web structure and small pelagic fish interactions in the Caspian Sea ecosystem, Iranian waters

Piotr Margonski
Feeding conditions for small pelagic fish in the southern Baltic Sea based on the long-term analyses of the zooplankton abundance and community structure changes in response to various environmental stressors

Cecilia E.K. Kvaavik
Trophic interactions of Atlantic mackerel (Scombrus Scomber) and herring (Clupea harengus) on the Icelandic shelf – A study of diet using stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes

Tore Johannessen
Overfishing of planktivorous fishes may result in smaller plankton and less efficient energy flow to higher trophic levels

Daigo Kamada
Pre-wintering adult capelin (Mallotus villosus) feeding dynamics off the northeast coast of Newfoundland and Labrador

Andrew Bakun
A potential role of small pelagic fishes in combating dynamic deoxygenation occurring within intensified upwelling circulations

Arnaud Bertrand
The paradox of fish abundance in the Northern Humboldt Current system: Why is it so productive?

Sergio Neira
Ecosystem role of Sprattus fuegensis and impacts of its exploitation on the sustainability of other fishery resources

Yuji Okazaki
Long-term changes in prey items of larvae and juveniles of two clupeoid species in the Kuroshio-Oyashio transition region
[Contact presenter]

James J. Ruzicka
Do jellyfish blooms affect small pelagic fishes in coastal marine environments?: A comparative analysis of three coastal ecosystems

Mary Hunsicker
Effects of warming ocean conditions on feeding ecology of small pelagic fishes in coastal ecosystems
[Contact presenter]

Kym C. Jacobson
Using trophically transmitted parasites to help understand the role and dynamics of small pelagic fish in the California Current

Evgeny Pakhomov
Feeding dynamics of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) in the northeastern Pacific coast of Canada
[Contact presenter]

Szymon Surma
Whale population recovery and forage fish in a Northeast Pacific ecosystem

Tamsyn Tyler
The feeding ecology of mesopelagic fishes (Lampanyctodes hectoris and Maurolicus walvisensis) off the South African west coast: A comparative analysis using stable isotope and dietary data

William J. Sydeman
Small pelagics fisheries competition with seabirds: Review and application

Julie A. Thayer
Predator forage needs: Comparison and synthesis of bioenergetic and numerical response models

Maite Louzao
Understanding pelagic seabird 3D environment from multidisciplinary oceanographic cruises

Laura Wise
Portuguese purse seine fishery spatio-temporal overlap with top predators
[Contact presenter]

Róisín Pinfield
Biology and ecology of killer whales (Orcinus orca) foraging around pelagic trawlers in the northeast Atlantic

Anders Frugård Opdal
Unclear associations between pelagic fish and jellyfish in four major marine ecosystems
[Contact presenter]

Richard D. Brodeur
Predation impact by juvenile salmon on early life stages of anchovy in the eastern North Pacific Ocean
[Contact presenter]

James Ianelli (Invited)
Successful management of small pelagics within a large international region: The case for collaborative assessment work within the recently formed South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization

Sherri C. Dressel and Jaclyn S. Cleary
Assessment of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) populations in the northeast Pacific Ocean

Douglas P. Swain
Incorporating time-varying fishery catchability in assessment models for Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)

John T. Trochta
Insights into the recovery of Atlantic and Pacific herring following population collapse

Geneviève Nesslage
Evaluating the performance of production models with time-varying parameters for assessing small pelagic fish in dynamic ecosystems
[Contact presenter]

Stephani Zador
Using alternative samplers to analyze forage fish trends in the Gulf of Alaska

Matthew Baker
Pacific sand lance – Assessment of benthic habitat, population structure, abundance, distribution and response to environmental drivers in the San Juan Archipelago

Martin A. Pastoors
New insights into small pelagics from industry self-sampling in Europe, West-Africa and the South Pacific

Andrés Uriarte
Monitoring by direct surveys and integrated assessment of the Bay of Biscay anchovy (1989-2016) for the provision of management advice

David A. Demer
Use of a potential habitat model to sample Pacific sardine abundance
[Contact presenter]

Wade D. Smith
Discerning connectivity and natal fidelity of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii): Inferences on population structure from otolith chemistry
[Contact presenter]

Verena Trenkel (Invited)
What are the challenges for ecosystem-based management of highly variable fish populations?

Szymon Surma
A reassessment of carrying capacity estimates for Northeast Pacific herring stocks

Gustavo F. Carvalho-Souza
Natural and anthropogenic factors in the Guadalquivir estuary affect the abundance of anchovy in the Gulf of Cadiz (SW Spain)

Rosamma Stephen
Factors for the fluctuations in the catches of oil sardine and Indian mackerel along southwest coast of India: Perspectives of fishery scientists and fishermen

Isaac C. Kaplan
A multi-model approach to understanding the role of Pacific sardine in the California Current food web
[Contact presenter]

Laura E. Koehn
Evaluating alternative forage fish harvest control rules from a seabird perspective

Mariano Gutierrez
A claim for precautionary adaptive management in upwelling systems. The case of Peruvian anchovy (Engraulis ringens) fishery

Filomena Vaz-Velho
The importance of fisheries independent surveys for an ecosystem approach to management of small pelagic fisheries

Nis Sand Jacobsen
The contribution of natural mortality to the decline and recovery in forage fish

Andrés Uriarte
Managing the Bay of Biscay anchovy: Fishery requirements vs sustainability given recruitment uncertainty

Szymon Smoliński
Incorporation of environmental drivers in the prediction of pelagic stocks recruitment in the Baltic Sea using random forest algorithms

Ruben Alarcón
Ecosystem impacts of applying single-species versus multiple-species MSY in the Patagonian sprat fishery (Sprattus fuegensis) in the inner sea ecosystem of southern Chile

Sonia Sánchez
Management strategy evaluation for the Bay of Biscay anchovy long term management plan definition

Aziza Lakhnigue More than fifteen years of collaboration on the assessment of small pelagic fish off Northwest Africa: Lessons learned and future perspectives

Rashid Sumaila
A simple bio-economic model of the effects of subsidies on small scale (pelagic) fisheries

Tony Pitcher
Herring aid in Haida Gwaii: An ecologial substrate for human decisions

Marloes Kraan
Understanding the fishery and value chain of anchovy (Keta Schoolboys) in Ghana

Katie Schleit
Management of small pelagics in Atlantic Canada: A case study of herring and mackerel

Claus R. Sparrevohn
A spatial based management system for the sandeel fishery in the North Sea

Ruby P. Napata
Is closing the best option? The case of seasonal closure for sardine fishery in the Visayan Sea, Philippines

Momoko Ichinokawa
A variety of effort management and its quantitative evaluation in the Pacific purse seine fishery targeting small pelagic fish
[Contact presenter]

Mimi E. Lam
A values- and ecosystem-based management approach to the Pacific herring fishery conflict in Haida Gwaii, Canada
[Contact presenter]

Jeff Scott
Identifying stakeholder values in British Columbia’s herring fisheries
[Contact presenter]

Anne Shaffer
Linking large-scale dam removal and forage fish restoration and conservation: Observations from the Elwha Dam removals
[Contact presenter]

Mitsutaku Makino
A social-ecological approach for the full utilization of pelagic species alternation around Japan

Roy Mendelssohn (Invited)
Easy access to environmental data for analyzing environmental drivers of the dynamics of small pelagic fish
[electronic notebooks: (1), (2), (3); raw files]

Timothy Essington (Invited)
Delayed detection of productivity declines amplifies forage fish population collapses

Sherri C. Dressel and Jaclyn S. Cleary
Assessment of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) populations in the northeast Pacific Ocean

Andrés Uriarte
BIOMAN: Anchovy DEPM surveys in the Bay of Biscay from 1987 to 2016

Matt Wilson
Recruitment Processes Alliance research on age-0 juvenile Walleye Pollock in the Gulf of Alaska and eastern Bering Sea

Leandra de Sousa
Methods and techniques for sampling and assessing Arctic Cod in the Chukchi Sea

Akinori Takasuka (Invited)
Reaching consensus on the growth–survival paradigm in early life stages of fish

Geir Huse (Invited)
Individual based modeling of fish migration and distribution

Hitomi Oyaizu
Modeling effects of weight and growth rate on the recruitment variability of Pacific saury (Cololabis saira)

Shin-ichi Ito
Challenges for modeling migratory fish behavior and distribution: An example in the western North Pacific
[Contact presenter]

Martin Huret (Invited)
Bioenergetics modelling to advance knowledge on life history traits and population dynamics of small pelagic fish: Illustration with anchovy and sardine in the Bay of Biscay and beyond

Paul Gatti
Calibration of the DEB model for small pelagics. What data is needed and at which timescale?

Eneko Bachiller
Bioenergetics modeling of the annual consumption of zooplankton by pelagic fish feeding in the Norwegian Sea

Laure Pecquerie
Combining lab and bioenergetic modelling approaches to better reconstruct growth from otoliths of Sardina pilchardus larvae

Myron Peck
Ecophysiological models of foraging and growth of small pelagic fish: Progress and challenges

Daniel Pauly (Invited)
Mapping small pelagics, fisheries and the primary production they require
[Contact presenter]

Grinson George
Inter-annual variability in Sardinella longiceps in response to ENSO event in the coastal waters of India

Renato A. Quiñones (Invited)
Inter-annual variability of upwelling, nutrients and planktonic community net metabolism in the southern Humboldt Current System: Management implications for pelagic fisheries
[Contact presenter]

Jose A. Fernandes (Invited)
Prediction of species distribution and abundance using high quality satellite products in combination with Bayesian networks

Nandini Menon N
Application of phytoplankton biomass as an aid in management of marine resources of the southeastern Arabian Sea

André E. Punt (Invited)
Characterizing small pelagic fishes in management simulations: Examples from the US West Coast and South Africa

Nis S. Jacobsen (Invited)
Predicting temporal mortality changes from size structure

Jin Gao (Invited)
Simulating forage fish dynamics for MSE: A nonlinear forecasting perspective