WI - Cormorant Research Group Meetings 17/09/03

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Hull International
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isheries Institute
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International Symposium on

Interaction between fish and birds:
implications for management


Organised by

Hull International Fisheries Institute
University of Hull, England

In collaboration with

European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC)
and the Environment Agency (UK)

Convenor : Dr Ian Cowx


3 - 6 April 2001


Provisional programme and registration

General information

The symposium on Interaction between fish and birds: implications for management will take place at the University of Hull, England between 3 April and 6 April 2001. All sessions will be held in the main lecture theatre of the Ferens Building at the University. Poster papers will be displayed in a room adjacent to the lecture theatre and close to where morning coffee and afternoon tea will be served.

Organisation of symposium

The symposium will be split into nine sessions over a period of four days (2 - 6 April 2001). Each session will comprise a keynote paper followed by a number of experience papers. Ample time will be made available for discussion. In advance of the symposium, there will be a one-day workshop (1 April 2001) for REDCAFE members to develop recommendations for future action on conflicts between cormorants and fish. Review papers and selected experience papers will be published as a proceedings of the symposium by Fishing News Books, Blackwell Science. Papers not selected for the proceedings will be considered for publication in the journal Fisheries Management and Ecology.

Registration

Participants wishing to attend are requested to complete the attached booking form and return it with the appropriate remittance to the conference convenor as soon as possible, but not later than 15 March 2000. A surcharge of 20% on accommodation and registration fees will be payable on all bookings made after this date.

Registration Fees (payable before 15 March 2001)

These fees include a copy of the symposium proceedings.

Accompanying persons who do not intend to participate in the conference events should complete a separate booking form but attach it to the form of the delegate they are accompanying

A fee of 20% of the total remittance will be payable for cancellation before 15 March 2001 and 50% before 2 April 2000.

Accommodation and catering

Accommodation for participants and accompanying persons will be available at Thwaite Hall, a University of Hull hall of residence located in Cottingham, some 1.5 km from the main University campus. Transport to and from the hall will be made available for all delegates in the morning and evening of the conference. Car parking facilities are available at both the hall of residence and at the university campus. There are good restaurant and bar facilities on the campus and at the hall of residence and there are many others in the locality. If you wish to make your own arrangements for accommodation please request details of local hotels.

The daily accommodation fee covers the cost of bed and breakfast and a 4-course evening meal, or, where appropriate the conference dinner (please note surcharge for conference on Thursday 5th April on registration form). A 2-course lunch, to be served in the main dining room on the campus, can be booked in advance if required. Alternatively, a self-service restaurant for light meals or snacks and a bar are available next to the dining room.

Delegates with special dietary requirements should inform the convenor when returning the registration form.

Travel

Kingston upon Hull is located on the East Coast of England. There is easy access by road and rail from major centres in the UK (London Kings' Cross to Hull in 3 hours). The nearest major international airport is Manchester, from which there are good rail links with Hull. Full details are available through your own travel agents. Hull is situated close to Humberside International Airport to which many flights are available from Amsterdam and Paris. Travellers arriving at Humberside Airport can be met on arrival if the conference organisers are notified in advance. Finally, North Sea Ferries maintain daily sea crossings to Hull from Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Zeebrugge (Belgium) with departures every evening.

Provisional programme and list of contributions

A provisional programme and list of oral contributions appears overleaf. This programme may be subject to change without notice

Posters and exhibition

There will be a number of poster papers presented, covering all the major theme areas of the symposium. In addition, there will be a small exhibition of fisheries related products. For all those who have missed the deadline for oral presentations there is still an opportunity to present a poster paper. Any delegate wishing to do so must send details when returning their Registration Form.

Languages

The symposium will be conducted in English.

Correspondence address

All correspondence should be directed through the Symposium Convenor.
Dr Ian Cowx

Interaction between fish and birds: implications for management

University of Hull
International Fisheries Institute
Hull HU6 7RX, UK
Email: i.g.cowx@biosci.hull.ac.uk


Provisional programme

Monday 2 April 2001
09.00 - 17.00

Workshop for REDCAFE

Monday 2 April 2001
16.00 - 22.00

Registration of delegates at Thwaite Hall.
Supper available until 21.00

Tuesday 3 April 2001
09.00 – 09.45

Registration of delegates at conference desk outside main lecture theatre in Ferens Building on the university campus.

09.45 - 10.00
Opening addresses

10.00 - 12.30
SESSION 1 -
Assessment of impact of birds on fish populations

J. HARVEY, R BRITTON & I. COWX M.J Feltham, J.M. Davies, B.R Wilson, T. Holden, (UK)

  • Key factor analysis to assess the impact of cormorants on fish populations in lowland rivers.
  • M. DIAMOND, M.W. APRAHAMIAN & R. NORTH (UK)

  • A theoretical assessment of cormorant impact on the fish stocks of England and Wales.
  • D.D. ROBY (USA)

  • Losses of threatened juvenile salmonids to predation by colonial waterbirds in the Columbia River Estuary, USA: quantification and management.
  • C. HALLET & R. LIBOIS (Belgium)

  • Impact assessment of breeding European kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) on prey fish.
  • J.D. ARMSTRONG, S. MIDDLEMASS & D.STEWART (UK)

  • The Atlas bone as an indicator of the sizes of salmon consumed by predators.
  • B.R Wilson, M.J Feltham, J.M. Davies, T. Holden, J.R. BRITTON, J.P.HARVEY & I. COWX (UK).

  • A quantitative assessment of the impact of Goosander (Mergus merganser) broods on salmonid populations in two upland river systems in England and Wales.
  • CARPENTIER, A., PAILLISSON, J.M. & MARION, L.

  • Relations between fisheries and cormorants (Phalacrocrax carbo) for the exploitation of the fish community in a temperate lake during ten years: are they competing?
  • 14.00 - 17.20
    SESSION 2 -
    Food and foraging

    K. GIL DE WEIR & E.H.WEIR. (Venezuela)

  • Fish and shrimp biomass consumption by the olivaceus cormorant population in Los Olivitos estuary,Venezuela.
  • A. LAUDELOUT & AND R. LIBOIS (Belgium)

  • The diet of the pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis at lake Nokoué, Benin
  • G. GILBERT (UK)

  • Bittern Botaurus stellaris diet and feeding behaviour.
  • P.C. COUTIN & J. RESIDE (Australia)

  • Population, diet and fish consumption of the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo carboides) in the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria.
  • A. RANDLE AND L. CHAPMAN (USA)

  • The effects of predation by pied kingfishers on habitat selection by the air-breathing fish, Ctenopoma muriei: implications for fisheries management
  • R. STRAND, T.G. HEGGBERGET & B.O. JOHNSEN (Norway)

  • Predation from seabirds on Atlantic salmon smolts
  • T. HOLDEN, M.J. FELTHAM, B.R. WILSON, J.M. DAVIES, J.R. BRITTON, J.P. HARVEY & I.G. COWX(UK)

  • Temporal and spatial variation in the abundance, feeding success and diet of cormorants at three fisheries in Nottingham, England
  • Wednesday 4 April 2001
    09.00 - 12.30
    SESSION 3 -
    Impact of birds on fisheries

    C. WOLTER & R. PAWLIZKI (Germany)

  • Seasonal and spatial variation of cormorants predation in a lowland floodplain river
  • C. DIEPERINK, B. BAK, L.-F. PEDERSEN, M. PEDERSEN & S. PEDERSEN (Denmark)

  • Bird predation on post-smolts of wild and hatchery reared Atlantic salmon and brown trout
  • A.S. FENECH, S. LOCHMANN, D. WOOTEN, M. HOY, & A. RADOMSKI (USA)

  • Possible effects of double-crested cormorants and largemouth bass predation on crappie in an Arkansas Oxbow Lake.
  • P.J. MOUS, W. DEKKER, J.J. DE LEEUW, M.R. VAN EERDEN & W.L.T. VAN DENSEN (Netherlands)

  • Interactions in the utilisation of small fish by piscivorous fish and birds, and by fishery in Lake IJssel
  • R.ESCHBAUM & T.VEBER (Estonia)

  • Do cormorants and fishermen compete for fish resources in Estonian coastal areas?
  • L. STEMPNIEWICZ, A. MARTYNIAK, W. BOROWSKI & M. GOC (Poland)

  • Cormorant predation, commercial fishery and fish stocks in the Vistula Lagoon, N Poland.
  • H.-G. BAUER, H. STARK & H. LÖFFLER (Germany)

  • Population trends and ecology of wintering waterfowl at Lake Constance 1962-1999
  • R. KNOSCHE (Germany)

  • The impact of black cormorant on the eel fishery in the catchments area of the river Havel/Germany
  • I. Navodaru, J.B.Kiss & I.Cernisencu (Romania)

  • Fishery and piscivorous birds forced to sustain together in Danube Delta, Romania
  • J.M. Davies, T. Holden, M.J. Feltham, B.R. Wilson, J.R. Britton, I.G Cowx & J.P. Harvey (UK)

  • The relationship between cormorant and fish populations at a fishery system in England: an overview
  • 14.00 - 17.00
    SESSION 4 -
    Bird, fish, habitat interactions

    E. NEMETH, G. WOLFRAM, P. GRUBBAUER, M. R:ÖSSLER & A. SCHUSTER (Austria)

  • The importance of fish within reed beds of Lake Neusiedl for colonial breeding waterbirds
  • R.A.A. NOBLE, J.P. HARVEY & I.G. COWX (UK)

  • The management of cyprinid fish populations as an important prey group for the endangered bittern (Botaurus stellaris (L.)).
  • S. Allouche & P. Gaudin (France).

  • Predation risk by birds and strategy of cover use by rheophilous cyprinids
  • R. GWIAZDA (Poland)

  • Changes in the fish-eating birds community at a submontane reservoir in the 14 years since innudation.
  • J.E. CARSCADDEN, W.A. MONTEVECCHI & G.K. DAVOREN (Canada)

  • Interactions between Capelin (Mallotus villosus) and Seabirds in a Changing Ecosystem
  • W.A. MONTEVECCHI, G.K. DAVOREN & J.E. CARSCADDEN (Canada)

  • Regime Shift in the Northwest Atlantic - Information from Marine Birds
  • W.J. SYDEMAN, M.M. HESTER, P. PYLE, & K.L. MILLS. (USA)

  • Long-term population studies of seabirds on the Farallon Islands, California: Three decades of change in demographic and prey harvest attributes.
  • Thursday 5 April 2001
    09.00 - 10.30
    SESSION 5 -
    Bird : fisheries interactions

    G.K. DAVOREN, W.A. MONTEVECCHI & J.ANDERSON, (Canada).

  • Capelin under stress in the Northwest Atlantic?  Information from seabirds.
  • K.H. MORGAN AND J.L. SMITH (Canada)

  • Seabird bycatch mortalities in gillnet fisheries on Canada’s West Coast
  • K. L. MILLS & W. J. SYDEMAN (USA)

  • Traveling in uncharted waters: use of seabirds compliment traditional information for managing Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) in central California.

    M. van Eerden (Netherlands) Effect of gill net fisheries in Lake IJsselmeer on waterbird mortality

  • 11.0-12.30
    SESSION 6 -
    Parasites and disease

    R.S. KIRK & J.W. LEWIS (UK)

    Intestinal parasites of cormorants

    I. BARBER (UK)

  • The role of parasites in fish-bird interactions: a behavioural ecological perspective
  • P. GOMULKA, T. WLASOW, A. MARTYNIAK & J. KOZLOWSKI (Poland)

  • Do cormorants influence the parasitic fauna of fish in Vistula Lagoon?
  • Md A. HOSSAIN (Bangladesh)

  • Congregation of sea gulls and other fish-eating birds are indication of viral disease outbreaks in farmed shrimps
  • 14.00 - 17.00 -
    SESSION 7 -
    Mitigation measures

    H.V. MCKAY, I.C. RUSSELL and M.M. REHFISH (UK)

  • Pilot trials to assess the efficacy of fish refuges in reducing the impact of cormorants on inland fisheries.
  • I.C. RUSSELL, P. DARE, H. McKAY & S. IVES (UK)

  • The potential use of fish refuges to reduce damage to inland fisheries by cormorants – a review and preliminary results.
  • G. WRIGHT (UK)

  • Turn-over within a wintering cormorant population and its effect on the impact of cormorant shooting – results from radio tracking on Loch Leven, Scotland
  • H. VERREYCKEN, K. DEVOS & C. BELPAIRE (Belgium)

  • The impact of cormorants on extensive fish culture and guidelines for a possible management of cormorant populations in Flanders (Belgium)
  • B. KNIGHTS (UK)

  • Enhancing stocks of European eels (Anguilla anguilla) to benefit bittern (Botaurus stellaris), otter (Lutra lutra) and other endangered piscivores
  • J. STEINMETZ, S.L. KOHLER & D.A. SOLUK (USA)

  • Manipulating predation by kingfishers and herons on stream fishes
  • T. ORON (Israel)

  • Migrating Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) through Israel: A conflict, and a suggested solution.
  • Conference Dinner

    Friday 6 April 2001 -
    09.00 - 11.00
    SESSION 8 - Management

    I.G. COWX (UK)

  • Managing the conflict between fisheries and fish eating birds: Optimizing the use of shared resources
  • J. FARQUHAR (USA)

  • Managing a Balance Between Double-crested Cormorant Numbers and Warmwater Fish Abundance in the Eastern Basin of Lake Ontario, New York; Preliminary Insights from a Management Program.
  • I.J. WINFIELD, D.H. CRAWSHAW & N. CAMERON DURIE (UK)

  • Management of the cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) and endangered whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) populations of Haweswater, U.K.
  • D. MOORE (UK)

  • Experiences of managing the impact of cormorants on large recreational trout fisheries.
  • M VETEMMA (Estonia)

  • The relationship between water birds and coastal fisheries in Estonian from nature protection and socio-economic perspectives.
  • H. GRIFFITHS (UK)

  • Integrating ecology and paleolimnology for the management of Mediterranean RAMSAR sites
  • 11.30 - 12.30
    SESSION 9 -
    Session reviews and recommendations


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