Yorkshire Branch - Symposium and AGM

Start/Finish date: 13th November 2010

Location: The Deep, Hull

Member Price: £5.00

Non-Member Price: £5.00

Event type: Seminar

Event Summary

A one day symposium on "Fishing for a Solution" - a look at fish, fishes and related subjects. Note entry to The Deep (the best aquarium in the country) is included in the price for the symposium.

Event description

Saturday November 13^th 2010

Yorkshire Annual Symposium – Fishing for a Solution

Venue: The Deep, Hull

Cost: £5.00 (includes entry to The Deep aquaria)

Agenda

9:15 – 9.45 Registration (Tea and coffee provided)

9:45 Welcome

9:50 Biodiversity film

10:05 – 10:55 In situ/Ex situ Research at The Deep, Past and Future…

Graham Hill - Scientific Office at The Deep

10:55 – 11:45 Paradigm shifts in freshwater fisheries: moving to the ecosystem services concept

Ian Cowx - Director, University of Hull International Fisheries Institute

11:45 – 14:00 Lunchtime and time to visit The Deep aquaria

(The Deep has a reasonably priced café and a separate picnic area)

14:00 Welcome back

14:05 – 14:55 Is fishing a sin?

Magnus Johnson - Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences, Hull University

14:55 – 15:45 Worms, mud and submarines in the Arabian Sea

Clare Woulds - School of Geography, University of Leeds

15:45 Tea and Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30 Yorkshire Branch AGM (note, non-members may go to The Deep)

16:30 – 18:00 Further opportunity to visit the aquaria

Posters and Displays welcomed, please book space with Chris Collins (ccollins@qscl.co.uk) by 30th October

Synopses of Talks

Graham Hill

In situ/Ex situ Research at The Deep, Past and Future.....

I will give a brief overview of the range of projects and studies we have completed and our plans for a continued prominent future in marine science and conservation.

Our ‘in house’ projects mainly concentrate around all aspects of husbandry for the animals we have at The Deep including; pioneering veterinary work, nutritional, behavioural and environmental studies.

We have had several significant conservation projects particularly in corals both tropical and coldwater with an involvement in European and global projects.

The future holds a fantastic long term project involving a very charismatic animal and an ecosystem in need of management, but more about that later.......!

Graham Hill is Scientific Officer at The Deep. He studied Honours degree Zoology at Dundee University and worked as a Research Assistant for 3 years continuing his honours project in pentastomid parasite biology and fish physiology. He then went on to complete an MSc. in Marine Resource Development and Protection at Heriot Watt University which included an HSE Commercial scientific diving course. He began his aquarium career as a part-time diver at Deep-Sea World, becoming a full time aquarist and then Senior Aquarist. In 2001 he moved to become involved with The Deep a year prior to its completion and organised the setting up of the quarantine facility. Currently, as Science Officer he is responsible for the co-ordination of both ‘in house’ and external research and the veterinary care of the animals. His interests are in marine veterinary science, in particular elasmobranch biology.

Ian Cowx

Paradigm shifts in freshwater fisheries: moving to the ecosystem services concept

I will examine the shifting position and roles of science (in its widest sense), people, and emerging environmental and sustainability issues in the management of inland fisheries.

Ian Cowx is Director of the University of Hull International Fisheries Institute (HIFI). HIFI is a specialist unit established to support the transition of research information into policy and management, through a range of educational, training, consultancy, and research activities. His research and consultancy activities have focused on rehabilitation, techniques for freshwater fisheries, integrated aquatic resource management, planning, environmental impact, assessment, particularly associated with water resources development, schemes, fish stock enhancement, strategies, and recreational fisheries (see www2.hull.ac.uk/science/biological_,sciences/people/academic_staff/,ian_cowx.aspx). He is founding editor of Fisheries Management and Ecology and has published over 150 peer reviewed articles and edited 14 books predominantly dealing with contemporary issues associated with freshwater fisheries. Ian plays an active role in international and local fisheries development as chairman of Sub-Commission IV (Social and Economic Aspects of Inland Fisheries) of the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] Regional Fisheries Body) and through advisory roles to the European Commission on inland fisheries and alien invasive fish species, the World Bank on Lake Victoria, FAO on inland fisheries management, and the Mekong River Commission on impacts of hydropower dams on fisheries.

Magnus Johnson

Is fishing a sin?

I’ll give my view of the inshore artisanal fishing industry and some of the links between the ecology of the sea and fisher-folk.

Magnus Johnson is a lecturer in Environmental Marine Biology at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences, Hull University. He grew up in Shetland, the son of a part-time fisherman, and was always fascinated by the lucky-dip aspect of dredging for scallops. The things not eaten were as interesting as those which were so he ended up as a marine biologist. Fishing culture is ingrained in his heritage and he has always felt that the small boat inshore sector is a valuable part of our society. Society however generally doesn’t agree and marginalises these folk that don’t work 9-5, rarely earn enough to pay income tax and don’t react well at all to institutional attempts to impose order on their variable lives.

Dr Clare Woulds

Worms, mud and submarines in the Arabian Sea

In the autumn of 2008 I participated in a research cruise to the continental margin off Goa, India. Our aim was to study the biology and geochemistry of some unusual low oxygen sedimentary environments. My work involved conducting experiments to determine which organisms were most active in consuming organic matter. Sampling was conducted by a manned submersible, in which I was fortunate enough to dive.

I also used this cruise as an opportunity to communicate my science to students at my old high school. I visited them before and after the cruise, and sent them an e-mail diary from the ship. In this talk, I will present some results from the cruise, as well as my thoughts on the outreach activities

Dr Clare Woulds studied Environmental Geoscience at the University of Edinburgh. Her interest in geochemistry led her into a PhD, and then a Natural Environmental Research Council postdoctoral fellowship, studying the interaction between biology and geochemistry in marine sediments. The interdisciplinary nature of the research has allowed her to indulge her interests in both biology and chemistry.

Clare is now Lecturer in Soil, Water and Carbon interactions in the School of Geography, University of Leeds. She is still pursuing research into the biogeochemistry of marine sediments, while also branching out into terrestrial environments. Immediate plans include a research cruise to work on hydrothermal vent systems of the Southern Ocean in early 2011, and summer fieldwork studying stream ecosystems in the Austrian Alps.

The Deep

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