Fishing and Benthic Habitats 2002: Symposium Overview
Goal:
Help ensure sustainable fisheries and healthy, diverse ecosystems by advancing the scientific knowledge available to resource managers to evaluate and appropriately manage fishing activities that affect benthic habitat.
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Approach:
The symposium will have one series of sequential sessions. Topical elements of the program will be initiated by one or more invited papers which have been asked to provide a national/international overview, followed by a limited number of contributed presentations, and extensive poster opportunities in separate, but dedicated, non-concurrent sessions. Symposium publications will include the meeting abstracts and a post-meeting American Fisheries Society volume of peer-reviewed papers. We also will offer local field trips, workshops, and demonstrations. Click here to see the Preliminary Symposium Program (154 kb), which includes the schedule of events, registration instructions, and other information.
Anticipated Participants: Marine, estuarine, and large lake biologists, geologists, and economists studying the effects of fishing and associated science; fishery managers representing state, Federal, tribal, and international entities; commercial and recreational fishing representatives; and environmental groups.
| Steering Committee - | |
| Emory Anderson |
NOAA/NMFS/Off. Sci. & Tech. Liaison to OAR/Sea Grant |
| James Balsiger | NOAA/NMFS Reg. Admin., Alaska Region |
| Mary Barber | Ecological Soc. of America |
| Suzanne Bolton | NOAA/NMFS/Off. Sci. & Tech.; Rep. for NRC/OSB |
| Paul Dayton | UCSD, Scripps Inst. Oceanography |
| Steve Gittings | NOAA/NOS/Sanctuaries |
| Suzette Kimball | USGS Biological Resources Discipline, Eastern Regional Biologist |
| Justin LeBlanc | Vice Pres. Nat. Fisheries Inst. |
| Gary Matlock | NOAA/NOS/Act'g Dir. Nat. Centers for Coastal Ocean Science |
| Larry Mayer | UNH/Dir. Center For Coastal and Ocean Mapping |
| Barbara Moore | NOAA/OAR/Dir. Nat. Undersea Research Program |
| Rod Moore | Exec. Dir., West Coast Seafood Processors Assoc. |
| Clarence Pautzke | Exec. Dir., North Pacific Research Board |
| Ghassan Rassam | Exec. Dir., American Fisheries Soc. |
| Michael Sissenwine | NOAA/NMFS Science Dir., Northeast Fisheries Sci. Center. |
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| Chuck Adams | Univ. of Florida |
| Peter Auster | Univ. of Connecticut |
| Gary Brewer | USGS Leetown Science Center |
| Linda Deegan | Marine Biological Laboratory |
| Jon Dodrill | Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission |
| Don Gordon | Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada |
| Dave Fluharty | Univ. of Washington & N. Pacific Fisheries Mangmt. Council |
| Jon Heifetz | NOAA, Alaska Fisheries Science Center |
| Eric Powell | Rutgers Univ. |
| Page Valentine | USGS/Woods Hole Field Center |
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| Ellen Raabe | USGS, St. Petersburg. Florida |
| Chris Smith | NOAA/NMFS, St. Petersburg, Florida |
