Annual Conference 2010
The 2010 Annual RAFTS Conference will take place at the Battleby Institute by Perth on Wednesday 10 March. This year's theme is 'Agreeing to disagree: Dealing with the thorny issues'
Fisheries management in Scotland is entering a new and exciting phase with fishery management plans now in place across Scotland and fishery trusts and fishery boards making increasingly important contributions to wider environmental policy improvement and protection objectives.
The conference will look to how a range of issues that may be initially in conflict with fishery or environmental objectives are being considered to seek and achieve practical accommodations and resolutions and where working constructively with others can negotiate and deliver better outcomes. Not all problem issues need to result in full blown conflict and innovative negotiations and mitigations can always be sought and found.
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Bookings are now being accepted for the event and a booking form can be downloaded HERE
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Information on getting to the conference and securing accommodation may be found HERE
Further details, including the programme, will be published shortly.
Last year's programme and the relevant presentations may be viewed below and downloaded.
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2009 Conference
Last Year's Annual RAFTS Conference was convened on 11 March 2009 and attracted a diverse audience from a range of sectors - Government, agencies and NGOs. Below is a copy of the 2009 conference programme together with a link to each presentation made under the relevant slot.
*Please note that the presentation PDFs linked to below are large files and may take some time to fully download*
RAFTS is indebted to Gillespie MacAndrew for their sponsorship of the 2009 Conference.
Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland
2009 Conference Programme
Battleby Centre, near Perth
11 March 2009
Practical, Adaptive and Innovative Fisheries Management:
“Lochs, Genetic Stocks & Resolving Our Quarrels”
10.00 – 10.10 Introduction and welcome from conference chair
Roger Brook (RAFTS Chairman)
10.10 – 10.30 Opening Address and Conference Opening
Richard Lochhead
Cabinet Secretary: Rural Affairs and the Environment
10.30 – 10.50 Fishery management plans and planning; what have we
achieved in year one?
Callum Sinclair (RAFTS)
PRESENTATION
11.00 – 11.20 Asking and answering the genetic questions: A Partnership
between RAFTS, FRS, Trusts and DSFBs
Roger Knight (Spey Research Trust / DSFB)
PRESENTATION
11.20 – 11.40 More than salmon: Reintroducing sparling to the Water of
Fleet from the River Cree
Jamie Ribbens (Galloway Fisheries Trust)
PRESENTATION
12.00 – 12.30 Spatial and temporal variability in stream temperature:
implications for salmon performance
Iain Malcolm and Philip Bacon (Fisheries Research Services)
PRESENTATION
12.30 – 12.50 From spring to autumn; from big to small. Long term
variation on the Tweed
Ronald Campbell (Tweed Foundation)
PRESENTATION
13.50 – 14.10 Biosecurity Planning: A coordinated approach to working
with non-native species
Chris Horrill (RAFTS)
PRESENTATION
14.10 – 14.30 Putting the genie back in the bottle: Mink removal in the
Outer Hebrides
David Maclennan (Scottish Natural Heritage)
PRESENTATION
14.30 – 14.50 Invasive plants: mission impossible or Trust fodder?
Brian Shaw (Ayrshire Rivers Trust)
Simon McKelvey (Cromarty Firth Fisheries Trust)
PRESENTATION
15.20 – 15.40 Supporting work on wild trout
Simon Johnson (Wild Trout Trust)
PRESENTATION
15.40 – 16.00 Reaching to the converted: Widening engagement through
open door events in Wester Ross
Peter Cunningham (Wester Ross Fisheries Trust)
PRESENTATION
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