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 Australian Society for Fish Biology and Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Joint Conference and Symposium 15-18 July 2012 Sebel Playford Hotel, Adelaide, South Australia Hosted by the South Australian Research and Development Institute and The University of Adelaide
‘Addressing the challenges of understanding the movement patterns of aquatic animals and their significance’ The Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) and the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society (OCS) are two independent organisations that aim to promote research, education and management for different groups of aquatic animals throughout the Oceania regions. As part of their normal activities, each society holds an annual conference in order to bring together its members to exchange information, develop and plan for the future. We are pleased to announce that in 2012, for the first time since the formation of the OCS in 2005, these two annual conferences will be held together as a joint meeting. This meeting will take place from the 15th to 18th July 2012 in Adelaide, South Australia. It will provide the opportunity for the interaction and exchange of ideas between scientists and fishery managers who work on a broad taxonomic range of species and their fisheries that are associated with ecosystems from freshwater to marine. The joint meeting between ASFB and OCS will take the form of a conference/ symposium. In the conference component there will be concurrent sessions during which there will be opportunity for delegates to give a presentation or poster on any topic for their study species, as is normal for the respective conferences. The symposium component of the meeting will address and explore the major topic of: ‘Addressing the challenges of understanding the movement patterns of aquatic animals and their significance’. Here, in several keynote sessions, a number of invited speakers will focus on four themes that relate to this topic. The aim of these sessions will be to highlight the range of research techniques and equipment now available for studying animal movements in the aquatic environment. For many aquatic species of animals, movement is an obligatory part of the life history, which can range from the passive advection of eggs and larvae by hydrodynamic processes to directed swimming by larvae, juveniles and adults. Such movement can determine the spatial scale over which the life history operates; affect the dispersion of individuals in space; and the variation in habitat utilisation throughout the ontogeny. It can also influence the variability in recruitment which ultimately drives the population dynamics and fishery production. Given these profound consequences, movement at all life history stages must be understood so that appropriate strategies for natural resource management can be developed. This is extremely challenging given the ranges in size and swimming ability of the different species and the complexity of their aquatic environments. Yet, technological advancements in equipment and research techniques have enhanced our capability of answering the difficult questions. This symposium will focus on these solutions in the following themes:
There is opportunity to value-add to this meeting as particular groups can organise workshops that can be run either before or after the conference/symposium. IMPORTANT DATES 1 May 2012 Cut-off date for early bird registrations and abstracts due CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Lara Birchby (Conference Manager) Tel: +61 8 8272 7005 Fax: +61 8 8272 7006 http://www.oceaniasharks.org.au/
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