© 2005 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
Introduction
a Institute of Marine Research Box 1870, Nordnes, N-5817 Bergen, Norway
b National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Centre 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
c Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory PO Box 101, 375 Victoria Road, Aberdeen AB11 9DB, Scotland, UK
*Correspondence to K. F. Drinkwater: tel: +47 55 236990; fax: +47 55 238584. e-mail: ken.drinkwater@imr.no.
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An ICES Symposium on The Influence of Climate Change on North Atlantic Fish Stocks was held in Bergen, Norway, from 11 to 14 May 2004. The Symposium, sponsored by the ICES/GLOBEC Working Group on Cod and Climate Change (WGCCC) as part of their synthesis activities, was convened to address the issue of climate variability and its impact on cod and other fish stocks in the North Atlantic. It followed 11 years after the first WGCCC-sponsored ICES Symposium on Cod and Climate (ICES, 1994) in Reykjavík, Iceland, which was convened to gather together the then current knowledge of the influence of climate variability on cod. The 2004 Symposium was timely