Fsam 2010

Best Student Poster Award

Are you a student and do you like to compete? Then join the Best Student Poster Award competition at FSAM 2010 conference for all student participants. The winner will be awarded with a Prize and Winner Certificate.

For more information see section " Student Poster Award".

Organisers

To be held by the Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Hydrobiology. In cooperation with the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC) and Supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism www.eeagrants.org

Scope

Active fish sampling may be more difficult to operate than passive methods but in optimal conditions tends to provide a better picture of species composition, population structure and abundance. Scientific use of active sampling gears is currently dynamically evolving and undoubtedly represents one of the main thrusts of current fisheries science. State-of-art of both direct fish capture and less destructive remote techniques of active fish sampling will be the subject of this meeting.

Special attention will be paid to technical developments, development of sampling strategies, current limitations, selectivity, efficiency and standardization of active sampling gear. All kinds of inter-calibration of results between different active and passive sampling techniques are welcome. The application of active fish sampling is no way limited by habitat, so contributions from lakes, rivers, streams, seas, transitional waters and simulated experimental conditions are welcome.

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Topics

Sampling approaches:

• Purse and beach seining
• Pelagic and benthic trawling
• Scoop, dip, cast nets
• Electrofishing
• Vertical acoustics
• Horizontal acoustics
• Multi-beam acoustics
• Visual sampling
• Remote sensing
• Fish chasing into passive gear (drive-in methods)
  
• Destructive methods (spearing, explosives, poisons)
  

Quality assessment and assurance:

• Selectivity and effectiveness
• Interfering factors
• Suitability in different conditions
• Sampling strategy and schedule
• Variability and dispersion
• Interpretation
• Standardisation
• Ground truthing
• Inter-calibration between several methods

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Deadlines

Registration, abstracts:	by 20 April 2010
Early fee*:	by 20 April 2010
Standard Fee*:	after 20 April 2010
Manuscript submission:	9 September 2010

* Considered is the date when the payment appears on the conference account. So do not wait too long.
Registration and conference account is open. You can register in section "Registration"

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Fees

Early fee:	€ 390
Standard fee:	€ 440
At conference:	€ 500
Student early fee*:	€ 250
Student standard fee*:	€ 300
Student at conference*:	€ 350

* To prove studentship we accept a formal letter from University only

Fee includes access to all sessions, conference bag, program & book of abstracts, Special issue of Fisheries Research from the conference, welcome party, conference banquet, daily lunches complimentary refreshments and 1/2 day conference trip.

Special Package fee

There is a special fee € 550 for those who will register FSAM 2010 and the sister conference DINFISH 2010.
To obtain special fee you need to contact us and pay it by 20 April 2010.

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Conference output

We are happy to announce that following conference outputs will be prepared:

• Book of Abstracts (Abstract guide)
• Successfully reviewed manuscripts will be published in the Elsevier journal Fisheries Research as a special issue.

To prepare your manuscript please see " Manuscript guideline"

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Conference language

The conference language is English

Contacts

Coference secretary:	Eva Hohausova, PhD, Katka Soukalova
Contact address:	Biology Centre AS CR
	Institute of Hydrobiology
	Na sadkach 7
	Ceske Budejovice
	370 05 Czech Republic
Fax:	+420 385 310 248
e-mail:	fsam2010@hbu.cas.cz

Please, make sure your antispam does not block e-mails from this address!!

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