2013 Annual Conference – 21 March 2013
Catchment if you can: Is fisheries management more effective when catchment based?
RAFTS & ASFB held their annual conference on Thursday 21 March 2013. The programme is below, click on each talk to view the presentation. Abstracts for each session may be viewed HERE
SESSION 1: Policy and Context
- Keynote Address – It’s not what you catch, it’s the catchment in which you catch it that really matters - Professor Chris Spray (Professor of Water Science & Policy, UNESCO Centre, Dundee University)
- So what is Fishery Management? – Ronald Campbell (Tweed Foundation)
- Evidence of significant recent delays in run-timing of grilse in Scotland - Professor Chris Todd (University of St Andrews)
- Natural production of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the Endrick Water in relation to carrying capacity - Andy Burrows (Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust)
SESSION 2: Managing on a catchment scale
- Are some issues bigger than the catchment? National prioritisation of hydro-power abstraction in Scotland - David Summers (Tay DSFB / Tay Foundation)
- Management and Biosecurity relating to the Highly Invasive Lagarosiphon major in Ireland’s Great Western Lake Fisheries - Joe Caffrey (Inland Fisheries Ireland)
- Prioritising and managing the assessment, easement and removal of barriers to fish passage - Rob Mitchell (RAFTS)
SESSION 3: Managing on a catchment scale
- Gyrodactylus salaris control on River Vefsna, Norway: big river, big problem, big solution - Richie Miller (Deveron, Isla and Bogie Rivers Trust), Marcus Walters (Moray Firth Trout Initiative), Chris Horrill (RAFTS)
- Catchment scale restoration on the River Peffery - Marcus Walters (Moray Firth Trout Initiative), Simon McKelvey (Cromarty Firth Fisheries Trust / River Conon DSFB)
- Genetic Tool Development for Distinguishing Farmed vs. Wild Fish in Scotland - Mark Coulson (RAFTS)
- Tracking sea trout up and down the Tweed – Niall Gauld (Durham University / Tweed Foundation
Details and talks of previous years conferences may be found HERE
