North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission

The North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) is an inter-governmental organization established by the Convention for the Conservation of Anadromous Stocks in the North Pacific Ocean. The Convention was signed on February 11, 1992, and took effect on February 16, 1993.

The objective of the Commission is to promote the conservation of anadromous stocks (Pacific salmon and steelhead trout) in the Convention Area. The Convention Area includes the international waters of the North Pacific Ocean and its adjacent seas north of 33° North beyond the 200-mile zone (exclusive economic zones) of the coastal States.

Current member countries include: Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States of America.

26^th Annual Meeting – May 2018 – Khabarovsk, Russia

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New Interpreters’ Page for the 2019 NPAFC Annual Meeting…
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New The Second NPAFC-IYS Workshop and Hotel Registration Open…
New International Gulf of Alaska Expedition...
New Pacific Salmon and Steelhead High-seas Tag Recovery Program…
New Instructions for Salmon Sampling Tissues for DNA Stock Identification…
USCG Detained Illegal HSDN Fishing Vessel …
List of Apprehended Illegal Salmon Fishing Vessels…
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Catch and Hatchery Statistics…
Presentations from the 2018 NPAFC-IYS Workshop…
Otolith Mark Database…

Recent Publications

NPAFC Newsletter 45
February 2019

NPAFC Annual Report 2017
Summary of the Commission’s 2017 Activities

Technical Report 11
Now available for download

NPAFC Bulletin 6
Now available in print

International Year of the Salmon Initiative

The International Year of the Salmon (IYS) is a project launched by the NPAFC and the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) and other partners. The IYS focal year will be 2019, with projects and activities starting in 2018 and continuing into 2022.

Promotional Video

This NPAFC promotional video can be viewed in all four languages of our member countries.

English 日本語 한국어 Русский

Pacific Salmon and Steelhead High-seas Tag Recovery Program

How to Report a Tagged Fish

Posters can be viewed in their languages of the five member countries.
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Title	Author	Link
Status OverView for Pacific Salmon Populations in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean	James R. Irvine, Andrew R. Munro, William Templin, Mary Thiess, Sue Grant, and Erik Neatherlin	View
Current Status of Chum and Pink Salmon: What is Reducing Adult Returns in Japan?	Toshihiko Saito and Yasuyuki Miyakoshi	View
Return of Chum Salmon with Latitude and Marine Environment in the Eastern Coast of Korea	Chung Il Lee, Hyun Je Park, Ju Myun Park, Hae Kun Jung, Ju Kyoung Kim, and Do Hyun Lee	View
Current Stock Assessment of Pacific Salmon in the Far East of Russia	Nataliya V. Klovach, Olga S. Temnych, Valeriy A. Shevlyakov, Evgeniy A. Shevlyakov, Alexander F. Bugaev, Vladimir I. Ostrovskiy, Alexander M. Kaev, and Vladimir V. Volobuev	View
Activity of Extreme Environmental Factors as a Reason for Pink Salmon Abundance Decline in the Sakhalin-Kuril Region, Russia	Alexander M. Kaev	View
What Formed the Pacific Salmon Biomass in Amur River Basin in 2000–2010s?	Sergei F. Zolotukhin and Albina N. Kanzeparova	View
Geographical Origins of Juvenile Chum Salmon Migrating Along the Pacific Coast of Hokkaido, Japan, During Early Summer	Shunpei Sato, Ayumi Nakashima, Kazuyuki Yamaya, and Shigehiko Urawa	View
Growth Rate Characteristics during Early Marine Life and Sea-entry Conditions of Juvenile Chum Salmon Originating from Two Rivers along the Pacific Coast of Hokkaido, Japan	Kentaro Honda, Tatsuya Kawakami, Kotaro Shirai, Takashi Kitagawa, and Toshihiko Saito	View
Biology of Juvenile Ozernovskaya Sockeye Salmon Oncorhynchus nerka (the Ozernaya River, Basin of the Kurilskoe Lake) during Downstream Migration and Early Marine Period of Life	Maksim Koval, Sergey Gorin, Alexander Vasilenko, Vladimir Dubynin, and Anton Klimov	View
An Introduction to Canada’s New State of the Salmon Program	Sue C.H. Grant and Bronwyn L. MacDonald	View
Environmental Factors Affecting the Survival of Juveniles and Recent Returns of Chum Salmon in the Okhotsk Coast of Hokkaido	Yasuyuki Miyakoshi, Hayato Saneyoshi, and Yousuke Koshino	View
Interannual Dynamics of Abundance of Pink and Chum Salmon Juveniles and their Average Body Size in the Sea of Okhotsk in 1998–2017	Olga S. Temnykh and Albina N. Kanzeparova	View
Present State and Future of Far East Salmon Stocks under Changing Climate	Andrey S. Krovnin, Boris N. Kotenev, and Nataliya V. Klovach	View
Validity of Inferring Size-selective Mortality in Pacific Salmon from Scale Circulus Spacing	Terry D. Beacham, H. Andres Araujo, Strahan Tucker, and Marc Trudel	View
Critical Size and Period for Pacific Salmon: A ReView and Response to Beacham et al. (2018)	Edward V. Farley, Jr., Ellen Yasumiishi, Jamal Moss, Jim Murphy, and Katie Howard	View
Pink Salmon as Sentinels for Climate Change in the Arctic	Edward V. Farley, Jr., Jim Murphy, Kris Cieciel, Ellen Yasumiishi, Karen Dunmall, Katie Howard, Todd L. Sformo, and Peter Rand	View
Understanding the Mechanisums that Regulate Coho Salmon Abundance in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada	Chrys-Ellen M. Neville and Richard J. Beamish	View
Unravelling how Climate and Competition Shape Sockeye Salmon Dynamics Across the Northeast Pacific Ocean	Brendan Connors, Michael Malick, Gregory T. Ruggerone, Pete Rand, Milo Adkison, James R. Irvine, Rob Campbell, and Kristen Gorman	View
Climate Change and Pacific Salmon Productivity on the Russian Far East	Alexander V. Bugaev, Oleg B. Tepnin, and Vladimir I. Radchenko	View
Toxic “bloom” and Pacific Salmon (Catch, Spawning Migrations, Production) in the Far Eastern Seas of Russia—Are There New Risks?	Ekaterina Lepskaya, Kseniya Efimova, Sergey Shubkin, and Vladimir Kolomeitsev	View
Community-based Monitoring Demonstrates Increasing Occurrences and Abundances of Pacific Salmon in the Canadian Arctic from 2000 to 2017	Karen Dunmall, Darcy G. McNicholl, and James D. Reist	View
Global Warming Effect for Migration Route of Japanese Chum Salmon	Masahide Kaeriyama and Yusuke Urabe	View
Migration and Homing Behavior of Chum Salmon Tagged in the Okhotsk Sea, Eastern Hokkaido	Hayato Saneyoshi, Yousuke Koshino, Hokuto Shirakawa, Naru Koshida, Yasuyuki Miyakoshi, and Kazushi Miyashita	View
Environmental Variability and Chum Salmon Production at the Northwestern Pacific Ocean	Suam Kim, Sukyung Kang, Ju Kyoung Kim, and Minkyoung Bang	View
An Evaluation of the Influence of Stock Abundance and Global Temperature Anomaly on Pacific Salmon Body Weight in the North Pacific Ocean	Alexander V. Bugaev and Vladimir I. Radchenko	View
Return of Chum Salmon and Water Quality and Ecology in the Rivers Connected with the Eastern Coast of Korea	Chung Il Lee, Hyun Je Park, Jong-Won Park, Seong- Ik Hong, Tae Hee Park, Hae Kun Jung, Joo Myun Park, and Ju Kyoung Kim	View
Teaming up Internationally to Optimize Wild and Hatchery Pacific Salmon Production in a Future of Changing Ocean Ecosystems–the International Year of the Salmon (IYS)	Dick Beamish	View
The Use of Marine Ecosystem Metrics for Preseason Forecasts of Salmon Harvest	Andrew Gray, Jim Murphy, Emily Fergusson, Jordan Watson, Edward Farley, and Kathrine Howard	View
Estimating Exposure of Interior Fraser River Steelhead to Strait of Georgia and Fraser River Commercial Fisheries from 2004–2016	Brittany T. Jenewein, Mike A. Hawkshaw, and Marla R. Maxwell	View
Effects of Duration of Net-pen Acclimation and Timing of River Stocking on Early Growth and Adult Return of Chum Salmon along the Pacific Coast of Honshu, Japan	Miwa Yatsuya, Kei Sasaki, Yuichi Shimizu, Katsuhiko Ohta, Kodai Yamane, Yuichiro Yamada, Shunsuke Moriyama, Yoshitomo Nagakura, and Hideki Nikaido	View
International Year of the Salmon Survey of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Salmon Staff Identifies Collaborative Opportunities and Possible Next Steps	James R. Irvine, Scott Akenhead, and J. Scott Carley	View
Increasing Outreach: Non-Salmon Species in the Subarctic North Pacific	Oleg Ivanov and Aleksandr Zavolokin	View
Homing Ability of Japanese Chum Salmon and Differences in their Return Timing by Reproductive Season	Masaya Iida	View
Wrap-up Summary and Research Priorities Identified at the Workshop	Mark Saunders	View