Recovery from a Critical Disaster and Sustainable Conservation Management for Chum Salmon under a Warming Climate on the Sanriku Coast, Japan

Abstract Excerpt:
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) and tsunami caused immense damage to the Sanriku Coast in northeastern Honshu, Japan. After this catastrophic disaster, the Tohoku Ecosystem-Associated Marine Science (TEAMS) research program was formed. The objectives of this paper are to introduce valuable research results from TEAMS and to clarify the impact of global warming on chum salmon, which is a further threat after the GEJE. For the last ten years, a lot of researchers and scientists contributed to various salmon research fields, including salmon ecology and physiology, oceanology, genetics, the economy, and salmon ethnology for restoring salmon production, coastal and lower freshwater ecosystems, the fisheries industry, salmon hatchery programs, and regional-human communities (Table 1). Research results were immediately provided to the Salmon Café as outreach and published in the proceedings of Salmon Café every year since 2013 (Fig. 1).