Current Condition of Epipelagic Communities
in the Northeastern Sea of Okhotsk

V. P. Shuntov, K. M. Gorbatenko, V. V. Nadtochii,
N. A. Kuznetsova, E. V. Samko, and T. A. Zyablitskaya

Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (TINRO), Vladivostok, 690600 Russia

Received February 5, 1996

Abstract—The results of a macrosurvey performed in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk in June and July 1995 are
compared with the data of similar studies carried out in the 1980s and early 1990s. The fraction of predatory zoop-
lankton (primarily chaetognaths) in 1995 sharply decreased in the waters around Kamchatka but significantly
increased in Shelikhova Bay and Yamsko-Tauiskii Region. Walleye pollack still dominated nekton communities
(80.7%). The relatively small amount of herring in the area examined is connected with the delayed approach of its
foraging aggregations from the west because of negative anomalies in water temperature.

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