IFM 49th Annual Conference
“Thriving or Surviving – Creating Resilient Fisheries”
The Guildhall, Hull. October 16th – 18th 2018
Programme
The conference is very kindly supported by
th . Tuesday October 16 9.30 – 17.20
Opening Session
Session Chair: Peter Spillett. IFM
09:30 Richard Noble, Welcome from the IFM Yorkshire Branch Conference Chair
09:40 TBC Official Conference Opening
10:00 Martyn Lucas, John Gregory Memorial Lecture Durham University, Fish, space, and river reconnection
TBC 10:40 World Fish Fish Migration 2.0 Migration Foundation
Break 11.00 Session 1. Resilient Fisheries 1
Session Chair: Paul Coulson, IFM
Steve Axford, Recovery and restoration of salmon stocks in the 11:30 IFM rivers of north east England
11:50 Martin Slater, Our Rivers Recovery & Renewal: Reconnecting Environment Yorkshire’s Rivers Agency
Magnus Johnson, A trans-Atlantic perspective of lobster (Homarus) 12:10 SEMS fishing, management and trade
Rachel Ainsworth, Declining resilience in fisheries: what happens when 12:30 Hull University inland fisheries are lost?
12:50 Panel Q&A
13.00 LUNCH
Session 2. Resilient Environments
Session Chair: Peter Walker, Creating sustainable homes – a need for long lasting 14:00 RSK habitat improvements for eels
Kathy Hughes, The SHOAL Project 14:20 WWF
Mark Tinsdeall, Yorkshire Water flow adaptive management 14:40 Yorkshire Water
Xingwei Cai, Factors influencing tropical Island freshwater fishes: 15:00 Hainan provincial species diversity, threats and conservation in Hainan marine and fisheries Island research institution
15.20 Panel Q&A
15.30 Break
Session 3. Habitat Management for Fish Session Chair:
Andy Nunn, Managed realignment for habitat compensation: use 16:00 Hull University of a new intertidal habitat by fishes
Shams M Galib, Is current floodplain management a cause for concern 16:20 Durham University for fish and bird conservation in Bangladesh’s largest wetland? Ibrahim G. 16:40 Alharthi, Primarily aspects on Saudi freshwater fish resilience Hull University
17:00 Jon Grey, Improving habitats on the Yorkshire Aire Wild Trout Trust
17.20 Panel Q&A
Break
17.40 IFM Annual General Meeting
All IFM members are invited to attend. The agenda, and minutes of last year’s meeting, will be available in advance on the IFM website and in hard copy at the conference.
19.30 – 22.00 The Yorkshire Social (and poster session). The Yorkshire Brewing Company. Humber Street, Hull Marina
Wednesday October 17th 9.15 – 17.45
Session 4. Yorkshires Rivers
Session Chair: Mike Lee, Environment Agency
09:15 Pete Turner, There’s a change in the Aire Environment Agency
Tim Stone, Fisheries and habitat response to physical habitat 09:35 Hull University restoration in the River Washburn, North Yorkshire (UK).
09.55 Jon Traill, From Brown trout to Bittern - the Skerne Wetlands Yorkshire Wildlife Nature Reserve Trust Disentangling the impacts of drought and water- 10:15 Paul Philips, resource management on riverine fishes Hull University
TBC, 10:35 Environment Agency Natural Flood Management in Yorkshire
10.55 Panel Q&A Break 11.05
Session 5. Resilient Angling
Session Chair:
Andrew Wedgbury, Casting Further: Promoting angling to a wider 11:35 University of audience through social media. Worcester Adrian Pinder, Effect of seasonal water temperature on the post 11:55 Bournemouth release performance of angled European grayling: University implications for fishery management and species conservation
Tommy McDermott, Recovering recreational fisheries – A Scottish 12.15 Trex Ecology Perspective
12.35 Panel Q&A
13.00 – 17.45 Field Trips (packed lunch provided)
Trip 1. Skerne Wetlands and West Beck.
Trip 2. Alkborough Flats – Flood Alleviation Scheme
Trip 3. Hull History Walking Tour
19.30 IFM Annual Conference Dinner To be held in the very fishy surroundings of The Deep Aquarium
th Thursday October 18 9.15 – 15.40
Session 6. Resilient Fisheries 2
Session Chair:
Tim Smith, Developing resilient inshore marine shellfisheries in 09:15 North East IFCA North East England
Ryan Hupfield, Natal Origin and Movement Patterns of Paddlefish 09:35 American Fisheries within the Mississippi River Basin Society Andrew Kerr, 10 Years of the Sustainable Eel Group 09.55 Sustainable Eel Group Amy Pryor and 10:15 Steve Colclough. Estuary Edges 2018 Thames Estuary Partnership and SC2 Mike Roach, Interactions of static gear fisheries and offshore 10:35 SEMS Windfarms on the Yorkshire coast
Panel Q&A 10.55 Break 11.05 Session 7. Mitigation and Recovery
Session Chair:
Shaun Plenty, How robust are current pollution impact assessment 11:35 Thomson Ecology and remediation strategies?
Alex Scorey, Application of probabilistic encounter and injury 11:55 APEM modelling techniques to predicting the impact of anthropogenic activities upon fisheries
Jamie Dodd, Determining fish passage solution success for river- 12:15 Hull University resident brown trout; the importance of ‘before’ data and understating the influence of flow, fish size and translocation.
Nicola Teague, Contextualising impacts on fish at the population and 12:35 APEM Ltd stock level to aid permitting decisions
Philip Smith, How resilient are canal fisheries to invasive species: 12:55 University of a consideration of the ecological, legal, financial and Hertfordshire practical aspects with special reference to the Zander, an introduced piscivorous fish
Panel Q&A 13.15 Lunch 13.25 Session 8. Future Proofing Fisheries
Session Chair: David Bunt. IFM
14:20 Peter Davies, Unlocking the Severn: past, present and future of the Bournemouth twaite shad (Alosa fallax) migration in the River University Severn catchment
Richard Barnes, Brexit and Fisheries 14:40 Hull University
Adam Brown, The Future of Fisheries – What Can Angling Do?: 15:00 Substance Developing a New National Angling Strategy
Martin Van An Archimedean revolution on the Isle of Sheppey 15:20 Nieuwenhuyzen, Aquatic Control Engineering John Ellis, The fall and rise of freshwater angling participation in 15.40 Canal and River Trust England & Wales
Panel Q&A
15.50 David Bunt, Closing Comments from the Institute IFM
CONFERENCE CLOSE