A Symposium entitled “Are eels climbing
back up the slippery slope?” will be held during the annual meeting of the
American Fisheries Society (AFS), in Quebec City, Canada, 17-21 August
2014. The Symposium is jointly presented by the AFS and the International
Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), and will be convened by an
international committee with European and North American representatives.
The International Eel Symposium 2014
invites submissions on the following:
- Eel stock status in different
regions/countries,
- Anthropogenic impacts causing or
contributing to the decline of eel stocks,
- Methodologies for monitoring and assessment
of stocks, and quantification of mortality,
- Application of aboriginal, traditional,
and historic knowledge to stock dynamics and conservation,
- The effect of protective measures on
stock dynamics,
- The effects of stocking and other
manipulations on stock dynamics,
- Oceanic processes in interaction with
continental stock protection,
- Eel genetics and its relevance for
conservation,
- Integrated inter-jurisdictional
governance and effective conservation management of scattered stocks, and
- Socio-economics of eel fisheries, and
how to sustainably exploit shared stocks.
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