ICES/PICES/FAO International Symposium on Small Pelagic Fish (SPFSymposium2)
Published 03 February, 2022
Time: 7-11 November 2022
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Substantial scientific progress continues to be made on understanding the drivers and dynamics of SPF in ecosystems across a range of spatial and temporal scales. The integration of numerical models with ever-growing data from monitoring efforts and stock assessments has enabled more comprehensive consideration of hypotheses describing SPF population variability. Additionally, the rapid development of new methods like eDNA, machine learning, and genome analysis to ascertain population structure can offer new insight to long-standing questions. The application of various regional management strategies and approaches to studying coupled social-ecological systems in collaboration with industry and other stakeholders is ripe for comparative research.
The international symposium “Small Pelagic Fish: New Frontiers in Science for Sustainable Management” will highlight the state-of-the-art in these and other topics related to the ecology and sustainable management of SPF. The symposium complements collaborative research conducted by the joint ICES/PICES Working Group on Small Pelagic Fish and is relevant to the goals of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, particularly “to bolster scientific research for a sustainably harvested ocean ensuring the provision of food supply.”
https://meetings.pices.int/meetings/international/2022/pelagic/scope