Tore Jakobsen, Institute of Marine Research, Norway. Senior scientist and marine biologist with experience from fish stock assessment and management advice. Employed by IMR since 1970. Head of Demersal Fish Section 1992-1998, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Fishery Management (ACFM) of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) 1999-2002, National Expert on Fisheries Research Projects at the European Commission (DG FISH) 2002-2006. Michael J. Fogarty, Senior Scientist, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, USA. Head of the Ecosystem Assessment Program. Research interests and experience include climate effects on marine systems, fisheries ecology, and the dynamics of exploited fish and invertebrate populations.

Bernard A. Megrey, NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Center, USA. Research fisheries biologist with NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center, where he has worked since 1982. Extensive experience studying the dynamics of exploited fish populations, relationships of the bio-physical environment to recruitment variability, stock assessment, and climate impacts on marine ecosystems. Erlend Moksness, Research Director, Institute of Marine Research, Norway. Fisheries biologist with background in recruitment in marine fish, fish ageing, stock enhancement of marine fishes and aquaculture of marine fishes.