1400

Registration and Poster set-up, Elphinstone Hall

1900

Welcome evening reception at the Maritime Museum

800

Registration, Elphinstone Hall

910

Welcome address, Kings College Lecture Theatre

930

SPATIAL PATTERNS IN THE STRUCTURE OF FISH POPULATIONS AND COMMUNITIES – LESSONS FROM CORAL REEFS

Peter Sale (Canada), Keynote speaker

1015

POPULATION STRUCTURING OF ATLANTIC SALMON WITHIN RIVERS: FROM META-POPULATION LINKAGE TO PHYLOGENETIC DIVERGENCE

Eric Verspoor, Lloyd Cole and Ian Wilson

1030

ROLE OF SUB-STOCK STRUCTURE IN THE MAINTENANCE OF ICELANDIC COD METAPOPULATIONS

Gudrun Marteinsdottir, Brickman D., Campana S., Danielsdottir A., Harms I., Jonsdottir I., Logemann K., Pampoulie C., Ruzzante D., Saemundsson K., Thorsteinsson V., Taylor L. and Valdimarsson H.

1045

EVIDENCE FOR METAPOPULATION STRUCTURING IN COD FROM THE NORTH SEA AND WEST OF SCOTLAND

Peter Wright, Francis Neat, Fiona Gibb and Iain Gibb

1100

Coffee/tea

1130

METAPOPULATION STRUCTURE AND PERSISTENCE OF STREAM-DWELLING DOLLY VARDEN IN THE SHIISORAPUCHI RIVER, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN.

Itsuro Koizumi

1145

SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN FISH POPULATIONS

Hans D. Gerritsen and Dave McGrath

1200

COHO SALMON COLONIZATION IN RECENTLY DEGLACIATED STREAMS IN GLACIER BAY, ALASKA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PACIFIC SALMON RESTORATION

Kim Scribner, G. Sage, C. Soiseth, L. Thorsteinson, J. Nielsen, and E. Knudsen

1215

A GENERAL MODEL OF MOVEMENT AND LIFE-HISTORY SPATIAL DYNAMICS FOR COASTAL TELEOSTS

Daniel J Gaughan

1230

LUNCH

1330

FISH POPULATION STRUCTURING IN THE NORTH SEA: EVIDENCE, PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS

Julian Metcalfe (UK), Keynote speaker

1415

USE OF OTOLITH GEOCHEMISTRY TO DETERMINE POPULATION CONNECTIVITY IN A LOCALLY ADAPTED MARINE SPECIES

Lora Clarke, B. Walther, S. Munch, S. Thorrold and D. Conover

1430

CAN HATCHLING SQUIDS BE RE-CLASSIFIED TO THEIR SITE OF ORIGIN, BASED ON TRACE ELEMENT FINGERPRINTS WITHIN STATOLITHS?

Gretta T Pecl, Sean R Tracey, and Leoind V Danyushevsky

1445

USE OF STABLE ISOTOPES TO IDENTIFY SUBPOPULATION STRUCTURE IN FISHES

Chris Harrod

1500

EGG RETENTION PROMOTES POPULATION STRUCTURE IN ATLANTIC COD

Sigurd Heiberg Espeland, H. Knutsen, E. M. Olsen and N. C. Stenseth

1515

Coffee/Tea

1545

DESIGNING FISH-TAGGING PROGRAMMES TO UNDERSTAND POPULATION STRUCTURING

David Righton, Ewan Hunter and Julian Metcalfe

1600

MOVEMENTS OF APEX PREDATORS ALONG THE HAWAIIAN ARCHIPELAGO

Carl G. Meyer and Kim N. Holland

1615

LINKING NATURAL AND ELECTRONIC DATA RECORDS TO ASSESS POPULATION DISPERSAL AND LIFETIME MIGRATION IN NORTH SEA PLAICE

Audrey M Darnaude and Ewan Hunter

1630

ASSESSING THE EVIDENCE FOR COD SUB-STOCK SEPARATION BETWEEN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL AND SOUTHERN NORTH SEA

V ictoria Quayle and Dr. David Righton

1645

A BIOLOGICALLY-BASED MOVEMENT MODEL FOR PLAICE IN THE NORTH SEA

Ewan Hunter

900

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES OF ADAPTIVE DIVERGENCE IN MARINE FISHES: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION

David Conover (USA), Keynote speaker

945

ADAPTIVE MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERGENCE VS. NEUTRAL GENETIC DIVERGENCE IN SYMPATRIC MORPHS OF RAINBOW SMELT, OSMERUS MORDAX

Paul Bentzen, D. Hasselman, L. Anstey and R. Bradford

1000

DETERMINING THE SPATIAL SCALE OF LOCAL ADAPTATION IN THE ATLANTIC SILVERSIDE (MENIDIA MENIDIA)

Glenn N Wagner and D.O. Conover

1015

MORPHOLOGICAL AND GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION IN ANADROMOUS SMELT (OSMERUS MORDAX) ALONG EASTERN CANADA: DISENTANGLING THE EFFECTS OF DISTANCE AND SELECTION ON GENE FLOW

I.R. Bradbury, M. W. Coulson, and P. Bentzen

1030

1045

Coffee/Tea

1115

SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF MULTIPLE PATERNITY IN A NATURALLY SPAWNING POPULATION OF ATLANTIC SALMON, SALMO SALAR

Laura K. Weir, C. Breau, J.A. Hutchings and R.A. Cunjak

1130

PHENOTYPIC VARIATION AND POPULATION STRUCTURING IN ATLANTIC SALMON IN FLUCTUATING ENVIRONMENTS

C. Garcia de Leaniz and S. Consuegra

1145

TWO SIZE CLASSES OF 0+ PERCH: IS PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY BASED ON FOOD RESOURCES?

Lisa Heermann, P. Beeck and J. Borcherding

1200

FSBI Annual General Meeting

1300

LUNCH

1400

GENETIC DIFFERENCES IN LIFE HISTORY REACTION NORMS AMONG POPULATIONS OF ATLANTIC COD (GADUS MORHUA)

Jeffrey A. Hutchings, D.P. Swain, V. Puvanendran, S. Rowe and J.A. Brown

1415

SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN BLENNIES: VARIATION AMONG POPULATIONS AND THE ROLE OF INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION

Wouter Lengkeek, Isabelle M. Côté and John D. Reynolds

1430

INTERPOPULATION VARIATION IN BODY FORM, FINS AND FEEDING STRUCTURES IN PUMPKINSEED POPULATIONS INTRODUCED INTO CATALONIAN LAKES AND RESERVOIRS

Michael G. Fox, Anna Vila-Gispert, Luis Zamora and Ramon Moreno-Amich

1445

MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERGENCE IN THE CYPRINIDS ABRAMIS BRAMA AND BLICCA BJOERKNA

Marnie Demandt

1500

Coffee/Tea

1530

POPULATION VARIATION IN LIFE HISTORY TRAITS AND THERMAL RESPONSES OF COD

Marion Perutz, Francis Neat, Peter Wright and Felicity Huntingford

1545

NATURAL SELECTION AND ADAPTATION OF THE DEEP-SEA REDFISH SEBASTES MENTELLA

Magnús Örn Stefánsson, C. Pampoulie, B. Þorgilsson, A. Ragnarsdóttrir, D. Gíslason, V., A. K. Daníelsdóttir and Þ. Sigurðsson

1600

MODELING THE FISHERIES INDUCED EVOLUTION IN THE PRESENCE OF STOCK STRUCTURE

S. B. Munch

1615

Jack Jones Memorial Lecture

FOOD DEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL GROWTH AND POPULATION DYNAMICS IN FISH

Lennart Persson (Sweden)

1700-
1900

Poster session sponsored by Blackwell Publishing

900

POPULATION STRUCTURE AND HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY OF RED SNAPPER (LUTJANUS CAMPECHANUS) FROM THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO

John Gold (USA), Keynote speaker

945

COUNTING ON CLOSE KIN DNA FINGERPRINTS TO ESTIMATE SPAWNING STOCK SIZE

Peter M. Grewe

1005

DISCRIMINATING THE IMPACT OF HUMAN MEDIATED STOCK TRANSFER FROM HISTORICAL GENE FLOW ON GENETIC STRUCTURE OF EUROPEAN GRAYLING (THYMALLUS THYMALLUS) POPULATIONS IN CENTRAL EUROPE

Bernhard Gum

1025

THE GENOMIC ARCHITECTURE OF POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION: NEUTRALITY, ADAPTATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF QUANTITATIVE TRAITS IN ATLANTIC SALMON

John Gilbey

1045

Coffee/tea

1115

THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF ICELANDIC COD

Christophe Pampoulie , D. E. Ruzzante, V. Chosson, Þ. D. Jörunsdóttir, L. Taylor, V. Þorsteinsson, A. K. Daníelsdóttir and G. Marteinsdóttir

1135

EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE OF GENETIC VARIATION AND THE INFLUENCES OF DEMOGRAPHY ON EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE IN THE GAG GROUPER, MYCTEROPERCA MICROLEPIS

Nathaniel Jue

1155

LUNCH

1315

SMALL SCALE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN ECOTYPES OF EURASIAN PERCH FROM LAKE MÄLAREN, SWEDEN

Jens Olsson and H. Ragnarsson

1330

COMBINING MICROSATELLITES AND GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS FOR THE STUDY OF REDFISH POPULATION STRUCTURE IN THE NORTHWEST ATLANTIC

1345

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AT A SMALL GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE IN THE PERCH (PERCA FLUVIATILIS)

Sara Bergek and M. Björklund

1400

GENETIC STRUCTURE OF BLUE WHITING (MICROMESISTIUS POUTASSOU) IN THE NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC OCEAN

Anna Was, Karen McCrann and Elizabeth Gosling

1415

BIOCOMPLEXITY IN A HIGHLY MIGRATORY PELAGIC MARINE FISH, ATLANTIC HERRING

Daniel E. Ruzzante, S. Mariani, D. Bekkevold, C. Andre, H. Mosegaard, L. A. W. Clausen, T. G. Dahlgren, W. F. Hutchinson, E. M. C. Hatfield, E. Torstensen, J. Brigham, E. J. Simmonds, L. Laikre, L. C. Larsson, R. J. M. Stet, N. Ryman and G. R. Carvalho

1430

GENETIC IMPRINTS OF QUATERNARY SPATIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC EXPANSIONS IN ATLANTIC HERRING

Stefano Mariani, J. Brigham, W.F. Hutchinson, T.G. Dahlgren, D. Bekkevold, D.E. Ruzzante, C. Andre, N. Ryman and G.R. Carvalho

1445

GENETIC POPULATION STRUCTURING OF ATLANTIC SALMON WITHIN THE SUBARCTIC TENO RIVER SYSTEM

Juha-Pekka Vähä, Jaakko Erkinaro, Eero Niemelä and Craig Primmer

1500

Coffee/tea

1530

THE GENETICAL ARCHITECTURE OF OUTBREEDING DEPRESSION IN ATLANTIC SALMON

Eef Cauwelier, C.S. Jones, L.R. Noble and E. Verspoor

1545

EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM INFLUX OF FARMED SALMON INTO A WILD ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) POPULATION IN THE ELLIÐAÁ RIVER SYSTEM, ICELAND: GENETIC ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION

Leó A. Guðmundsson, S. Guðjónsson, G. Marteinsdóttir, A. K. Danielsdóttir and C. Pampoulie

1600

CRYPTIC POPULATION STRUCTURE IN BROWN TROUT (SALMO TRUTTA) REVEALED USING GENETIC MARKERS

Stefan Palm, Linda Laikre, Anna Palmé, and Nils Ryman

1615

TEMPORAL STABILITY OF POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE OF ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) IN NEWFOUNDLAND

Friso P. Palstra, Mike F. O'Connell and Daniel E. Ruzzante

1630

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA ANALYSIS OF THE CAPE HAKES, MERLUCCIUS CAPENSIS AND M. PARADOXUS: A PANMICTIC POPULATION FOR ONE SPECIES AND NOT THE OTHER?

Sophie von der Heyden, M. Lipinski and C.A. Matthee

1645

COMPARATIVE ESTIMATES OF EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZES IN THREE SPECIES OF WOLFFISHES (ANARHICHAS SPP.)

Megan McCusker and P. Bentzen

1700

A SIMULATION MODEL OF POPULATION GENETICS TO UNRAVEL THE PANMICTIC NATURE OF EUROPEAN EEL

Giulio A. De Leo, Daniele Bevacqua, Marco Andrello, Paco Melià,   Alain J. Crivelli and Marino Gatto

1900

Symposium dinner in the Marcliffe at Pitfodels, followed by ceilidh dance with music supplied by top local ceilidh band, Iron Broo.

930

STOCK DYNAMICS AND CONSERVATION IN EXPLOITED SPECIES

Gunnar Stefansson (Iceland), Keynote speaker

1015

CONSEQUENCES OF SPATIAL STRUCTURE IN BIOLOGY TO THE DYNAMICS OF A REEF FISH POPULATION SUBJECT TO VARIOUS LEVELS OF EFFORT

Mikaela Bergenius, M. Bruce, R. Little and G. Begg

1030

DOES AGE DIVERSITY IN POPULATION STRUCTURE BUFFER ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON RECRUITMENT OF NORTHEAST ARCTIC COD?

Nathalia.A. Yaragina and C. Tara Marshall

1045

USING COHORT-SPECIFIC VALUES OF R TO DESCRIBE THE STOCK DYNAMICS OF NORTHEAST ARCTIC COD

C. Tara Marshall

1100

Coffee/tea

1130

REGIONAL VARIABILITY IN COD DYNAMICS IN THE NORTH SEA AND WEST OF SCOTLAND AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TO MANAGEMENT

S. Holmes, P.J. Wright and R.Fryer

1145

A LIFE-CYCLE BASED FISHERIES MODEL FOR BROAD WHITEFISH, COREGONUS NASUS, OF THE LOWER MACKENZIE RIVER: A SOLUTION TO MANAGEMENT OF A TRANS-BOUNDARY MIGRATORY SPECIES IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

Ross F. Tallman and Trevor M. Thera

1200

CONSIDERATIONS OF POPULATION STRUCTURING IN ATLANTIC HERRING, CLUPEA HARENGUS L. ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN THE NORTH SEA, SKAGERRAK, KATTEGAT AND WESTERN BALTIC

Emma M.C. Hatfield, Lotte A.W. Clausen, Henrik Mosegaard, Dorte Bekkevold, Stefano Mariani, William F. Hutchinson, Gary R. Carvalho, Daniel E. Ruzzante, Carl Andre, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Else Torstensen, and E. John Simmonds

1215

Closing words

1230

Lunch and conference end

1400

Optional excursions around local area (e.g. Dunottar castle, whisky distillery, dolphin watching)