10th Workshop Of The International Society Of Arctic Char Fanatics

jd

From a friend
...

HI there
Ireland is to host the 10th workshop of teh International Society of Arctic Char Fanatics. There will be a series of talks (both for scientists and public) on Arctic char both in Killarney and Galway.

For those who might be interested, I've attached a programme.

The meeting is being organised by the Irish Char Conservation Group and more details can be found on their web site, www.charr.org

Kind regards
Fran Igoe



10TH WORKSHOP OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARCTIC CHAR FANATICS
LIST OF PUBLIC AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (ISACF)


SEPTEMBER 2ND TO SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2002


KILLARNEY, CO. KERRY

ISACF No. 1: Muckross House (Sept 3rd, 2002)

7.00 Video of char egg collection in Swedish mountains in the 1960's Rolf Gydemo,Science Secretary, Royal Irish Academy
7.30 A Stock estimate of Char in Lake Ellidavatn Reykjavík 2001 and 2002 (tagging - recapture). Jón Kristjánsson, Fisheries Consultant, Iceland.

8.00 Arctic char studies in Greenland Erik Mortensen, Greenland


8.30 Welsh char Ian McCarthy, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales


9.00 An update on the Floods Pond charr population spawning status Frederick W. Kircheis, Executive Director, Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission, USA.


9.30 FINISH/DISCUSSION



Public meeting: Muckross Park Hotel (Sept 4th, 2002)

7.00 Working to protect Arctic char in Ireland Myles Kelly, Irish Char Conservation Group, Ireland.

7.30 Assessing the hidden value of our charr populations: the lessons from Scotland Colin E. Adams, Glasgow University.

8.00 Sport fishery for Arctic and Dolly Varden char in Alaska Alfred L. DeCicco, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

8.30 Taking the bull by the horns: Arctic char management initiatives in Nunavik Geoffrey Power, Canada



ISACF No. 2: Muckross House (Sept 5th, 2002)

6.30 Arctic char in Svalbard Martin-A. Svenning, Norwegian Institute of Nature Research

7.00 Resource use of two sympatric Arctic char morphs Per-Arne Amundsen, Department of Marine and Freshwater Biology, University of Tromso, Norway.

7.30 Development and applicationof microsatellite markers for population and mixed-stock analysis of Dolly Varden in Alaska John Wenburg and Penelope CraneU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

8.00 Inter- and intra-morph patterns in helminth communities of sympatric Arctic charr morphs Rune Knudsen, University of TromsØ, Norway

8.30 Closing speech Minister for Sport and Tourism, Mr. John O'Donoghue, T.D.
















GALWAY CITY
Public meeting: Menlo Park Hotel Sept 7th, 2002

7.00 Arctic Charr and the River of Time Lionel Johnson

7.30 Ferox trout and Arctic char in Scotland? Ron B. Greer, Pitlochry, Scotland

8.00 From edge to edge: evolutionary and ecological qualities of marginal Arctic char Johan Hammar, Head and Founder of International Society of Arctic Char Fanatics, Sweden.

8.30 The char in Ireland, with particular reference to the west Fran Igoe, Irish Char Conservation Group.

CORNAMONA, CO. GALWAY


Public meeting: Cornamona Community Centre (Sept 7th)

6.00 The ghost of the Corrib char John Walsh and Tom Monroe, Western Regional Fisheries Board

6.30 Arctic char in North America Frederick W. Kircheis, Executive Director, Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission, USA.



ISACF No. 3: Cornamona Community Centre (Sept 8th)

14.00 A plea to help charr in littoral environments by avoiding further glyphosate use threatening its food resources Roland Pechlaner

14.30
Brian Dempson,Fisheries and Oceans Canada

15.00 Journeys across the Taimyr Peninsula and the Amur. Yoichi Machino, Researcher, France.

15.30 Applications of stable isotopes to studies of char ecology Michael Power, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Canada.

16.00 Structure of a char population from Heintzelman Lake in the Canadian High Arctic. Public: Char diversity in the Canadian High Arctic James Reist, Arctic Fish Ecology and Assessment Research Section, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

jd

The above is on this weekend, so I'm unstickying this thread...
If any of you out west are at a loose end it could be fun - I think they are going to try and catch a few...
jd

Summary Workshop Outline

September 2 Scientists Convene in Killarney

September 3 Workshops in Killarney

September 4 Study tour/Public Meeting in Kerry

September 5 Workshop in Killarney

September 6 Survey lakes in Clare

September 7 Public Festival in Cornamona, Co. Galway.

September 8 Test char fishing methods and inspect char lakes in Co. Mayo and Galway

September 9 Meeting ends