(including WG10 - Economic consequences and links to IGBP Food and Fibre and IHDP)

Theme representative: J. Hunter (ex-officio)

A workshop on the economics of small pelagics and climate change will take place in Portsmouth, UK, in September 2004. Some of the issues to be discussed at this workshop would be (a) effects of low- and high-frequency climatic events on fish productivity; (b) impacts of climate change on harvesting and processing capacity and fisheries investments; (c) economic benefits of cooperative management of transboundary stocks; (d) impacts of the international trade of small pelagic fish and their substitutes; and (e) the value of improved long-range climate prediction.