Joint PICES/ICES Working Group 45 on Impacts of Warming on Growth Rates and Fisheries Yields (GRAFY)

WG 45 – 2021 2021 Report of PICES/ICES Working Group on Impacts of Warming on Growth Rates and Fisheries Yields The Joint PICES/ICES Working Group on Impacts of Warming on Growth Rates and Fisheries Yields (WG 45/WGGRAFY) held its annual PICES meeting virtually on September 7 at 5 PM Pacific Daylight Time under the joint chairing of Drs. [...] The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Working Group objectives and progress on the research activity, and, in particular, communicate to representatives from PICES member countries who may not have been able to attend previous meetings due to time-zone limitations. [...] AGENDA ITEM 1 Introduction by Co-Chairs The meeting began with a brief review of expected patterns in length at age that would result from the Temperature-Size Rule (TSR), and a review of the WG Terms of Reference (ToR In the past year, subgroups have been created to work on each of the 4 ToRs. [...] AGENDA ITEMS 2 AND 3 Introduction of members and adoption of agenda After introduction of members (WG 45 Endnote 1) and adoption of the agenda (WG 45 Endnote 2), the bulk of the meeting consisted of reports from the ToR subgroup representatives and discussion for each of the ToRs (see ).. [...] AGENDA ITEM 5 Future schedules After the kickoff meeting in 2020, the WG held 9 ToR subgroup meetings (ToR1 on January 12, ToR3 on January 20, ToR2 on January 21, ToR1 on April 20, ToR1 on July 9, ToR1 on August 5, ToR3 on August 17, ToR1 on September 15, and ToR1 on October 22) The future schedules for WG 45/WGGRAFY largely consist of the meetings and research of the ToR subgroups.