E-Conference on Fish Welfare and Fisheries

5th World Fisheries Congress
Yokohama, Japan October 20-24 2008

Sponsors: Fisheries Society of the British Isles

Please register for the e-conference using the form below.

1 September to 12 September 2008

The e-conference can be found on the FSBI Discussion Board.

The main topics for discussion are based on the themes of the one-day symposium to be held at the 5th WFC:

Welfare and fisheries: Experience from aquaculture.	Felicity Huntingford	University of Glasgow
Welfare and recreational fisheries.	Robert Arlinghaus	Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries, Berlin
Welfare in wild-capture marine fisheries.	Julian Metcalfe	CEFAS
How to balance the needs and wishes of humans against the concerns for fishes.	Peter Sandøe	Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment, University of Copenhagen
Living as Part of the Natural World.	J Claude Evans	Washington University, St Louis, USA

The e-conference will include introductory remarks by the keynote speakers above over a period of three weeks. The conference will be moderated by an independent e-conference administrator. Weekly summaries will be posted and the output of the e-conference will be used to set key questions for the keynote speakers to address at the symposium.

If you wish to register for the e-conference please fill in this form.

You will be sent an acknowledging email and a username and password for the e-conference within 24 hours.