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Joint PICES/ICES/PAME Working Group 39 on an Integrated Ecosystem Assessment for the Central Arctic

20 Dec 2021

WGICA had a spring meeting to: 1) maintain the WGICA Vision of 2015 to provide the scientific background and annual status, trends and pressures reports for the CAO, 2) to kick- start Report 2 part 1 (Human activities, pressures and management bodies), 3) to finish the “possible future situation” of the EO, and 4) Prepare for the October annual meeting (Reports, new ToR, IA). [...] A working title for the 1st WGICA report is: ‘Integrated Ecosystem Assessment of the Central Arctic Ocean: ecosystem description’ The subtitle is intended to explain the scope and content of the report, which is to provide an integrated account of the ecosystem of the central Arctic Ocean. [...] The focus is on present and future human activities, the pressures from these human activities, and the impact of these pressures on the living ecosystem. [...] 4 How do the pressures impact the living Ecosystem: threshold limits for effects, uncertainty, and knowledge gaps for the CAO? 5 Existing management bodies and measures/best practices/tools/regulation in the CAO LME for ongoing Human activities (future activities?) 6 Risk analyses - the likelihood of human activities (happening inside and outside the CAO) to have an impact on the CAO ecosystem in. [...] The main objectives for the workshop are to describe and discuss present ecosystem processes (sources, signals, significance) in the CAO and the NBS-CS based on achievements from existing and future research programs such as MOSAiC and SAS, numerous NBS-CS programs, and Indigenous Knowledge.

Authors

Rosalie Rutka

Pages
5
Published in
Canada