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Linking Herring is an ICES Globec PICES
International Symposium.

Organised by

The Conveners:
Maurice Clarke
Mark Dickey-Collas
Aril Slotte

Science Committee
Members:

Emma Hatfield, UK
Doug Hay, Canada
Richard Nash, Norway
Deirdre Brophy, Ireland
Øyvind Fiksen, Norway
Brenda Norcross, USA
Yoshiro Watanabe, Japan

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Institute of Marine Research Norway web site
Marine Institute Ireland website
Wageningen IMARES web site

Linking Herring, Galway 2008
Herring: Linking biology, ecology and status of populations in the context of changing environments

The Symposium took place from 26-29th August 2008 in Galway.

The conference organisers thank all the participants for attending!

You can find a summary of the linking herring sumposium by clicking here.

Also, here's a photo of all the participants
(click on the photo to download a larger version)

Also look at the active webpage for the symposium  International Symposium on Herring .

Theme Sessions

Mike Sinclair (Canada) is the linking herring key note speaker

1. counting herring - qualitative and quantitative estimation of herring and its application - John Simmonds (UK)

2. advances in herring biology- Audrey Geffen (Norway)

3. population integrity - the rigidity of stocks and the drivers of migration - David Secor (USA)

4. variable production
- particularly the role of reproduction, recruitment and life history strategies - Nils Christian Stenseth (Norway)

5. herring in the middle - the trophic and ecological interactions and impacts of herring - Andrew Bakun (USA)

6. managing change
- management and exploitation of herring in a dynamic environment, within the context of long term change - Martin Pastoors (The Netherlands)

 

Download the final symposium schedule inlcuding a list of abstracts
by clicking 
HERE .    (NB: scroll down! Document is about 3 MB)

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