This forty-fourth issue of NAFO Scientific Council Reports containing reports of Scientific Council Meetings held in 2022, is compiled in five sections: Part A –NAFO Scientific Council Meeting, 03 - 16 June 2022; Part B – NAFO Scientific Council Meeting, 27 July 2022; Part C – NAFO Scientific Council and STACFIS Shrimp Assessment Meeting, 12 – 16 September 2022; Part D – NAFO Scientific Council Meeting, 19 – 23 September 2022; and Part E—the Agendas; Requests; Lists of Research and Summary Documents; List of Representatives, Advisers, Experts and Observers; Merit Awards; and List of Recommendations relevant to Parts A-D.
For the meeting reports of the NAFO Precautionary Approach Working Group (PA-WG), and the NAFO Scientific Council Working Group on Ecosystem Science and Assessment (WG-ESA), visit the NAFO website.

Additional information:

• Cyr & Galbraith, 2021, A climate index for the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf. Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1807-2021

Additional Information:

• Colbourne et al., 1994. Climatic changes and environmental conditions in the Northwest Atlantic, 1970-1993. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/E-Colbourne-2/publication/281064239_Climatic_changes_and_environmental_conditions_in_the_Northwest_Atlantic_1970-1993/links/55d31fc508aec1b0429f2dee/Climatic-changes-and-environmental-conditions-in-the-Northwest-Atlantic-1970-1993.pdf
• Cyr et al., 2022, Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf during 2021. https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/library-bibliotheque/41063491.pdf
• Gonzalez-Pola, et al., 2022. ICES Report on ocean climate 2020. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.19248602.v2
• Hebert et al., 2023. Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Scotian Shelf and in the Gulf of Maine during 2022. https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/library-bibliotheque/41191742.pdf

This issue of the Meeting Proceedings of the Commission contains the meeting reports of the Commission (COM) and the joint Commission-Scientific Council (COM-SC), including their subsidiary bodies and working groups held between 1 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. This follows a NAFO cycle of meetings starting with an Annual Meeting rather than by calendar year.

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The Standing Committee on Fisheries Environment (STACFEN) of NAFO was present during the symposium, ICES-NAFO 4^th Decadal Variability of the North Atlantic and its Marine Ecosystems: 2010–2019, held in Bergen, Norway (20 – 22 June 2022). Frederic Cyr and Paula Fratantoni from STACFEN were members of the symposium's scientific committee, bridging ICES and NAFO scientists to challenges associated with changes in the climate-ocean system in the North Atlantic.

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This issue of the Meeting Proceedings of the Commission contains the meeting reports of the Commission (COM) and the joint Commission-Scientific Council (COM-SC), including their subsidiary bodies and working groups held between 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021. This follows a NAFO cycle of meetings starting with an Annual Meeting rather than by calendar year.

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Report of the Scientific Council (in conjunction with NIPAG) Meeting, 14 September 2020

Report of the Scientific Council, 21-25 September 2020

This issue of the Meeting Proceedings of the Commission contains the meeting reports of the Commission (COM) and the joint Commission-Scientific Council (COM-SC), including their subsidiary bodies and working groups held between 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2020. This follows a NAFO cycle of meetings starting with an Annual Meeting rather than by calendar year.

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