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PROGRAM i ii iii About the Conference After the first (1997) and second (2001) Symposia on Marine Conservation Biology confirmed the large number of marine conservation biologists interested in furthering marine science, research and public pol- icy, a group of marine professionals organized a formal society for marine conservation biology. After much discussion, this group accepted an invitation from the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) to become one of their ’sections’. The SCB Marine Section now provides a home for marine conservation biology in order to further marine conservation science, research and public policy. The Section’s flagship meeting is the biennial International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC). Previous IMCCs have been held in Washington D.C - USA (2009), Victoria - Canada (2011), Glasgow, UK (2014), and St. John’s - Canada (2016). IMCC5, to be held in Kuching - Malaysia (2018) will be the first iteration of the meeting to be held in a country defined by the World Bank as either "low income" or "middle income". The SCB Marine Section very much hope this move will open the meeting up to more delegates from such countries, who have historically found it harder to attend IMCCs due to high travel and subsistence costs. We believe marine conservation can only be successful at a global scale when a truly global community is working together on marine conservation issues. iv Supporters and Sponsors Supported By: Leatherback Turtle Platinum Sponsor: Saltwater Crocodile Gold Sponsor: Silver Dugong Sponsors: Bronze Staghorn Coral Sponsors: v Organizing Committee Chair Dr. Edward Hind-Ozan (SCB Marine Section President Elect) Deputy Chairs Holly Niner (SCB Marine Section Secretary) Sophia Wassermann (SCB Marine Section Student Officer) Steering Committee Members Dr. Katie Matthews (SCB Marine Section President) Dr. John Cigliano (SCB Marine Section Past President) Professor Dr. Tonga Ak Noweg - Local Organizing Committee Chair Dr. David Shiffman (SCB Marine Section Board Member at Large) Committee Chairs Dr. Joshua Drew - Program Committee Chair Andrew Lewin - Sponsorship Committee Chair Matt Tietbohl - Marketing Committee Chair Heather Penny - Volunteer Committee Chair Sophia Wassermann - Student Committee Chair Dr. David Shiffman - OceansOnline Committee Chair Local Organizing Committee Professor Dr. Tonga Ak Noweg - Committee Chair Dr. Jongkar Grinang - UNIMAS Board Member Dr. Kon Yuk Fong - UNIMAS Board Member Dr. Aazani Mujahid - UNIMAS Board Member Miss Cindy Peter - UNIMAS Board Member Mdm. Constance Vanessa Victor - Sarawak Biodiversity Centre Board Member Mr. James Bali - Sarawak Forestry Corporation Board Member Mr. Daud Awang - Sarawak Department of Fisheries Board Member Mr. Chin Han Kiat - Sarawak Inland Fisheries Board Member Mr. Phillcaine Pilla - FDS Board Member Mdm. Belinda Lip - WWF Sarawak Board Member Meeting Manager Travis Nielsen vi Contents About the Conference iv Supporters and Sponsorsv Organizing Committee vi General Schedule 1 Pre-Conference Workshops2 22 June ...............................................2 The Art of Knowledge Exchange, (8:30 - 17:30, Tubau 2) (Mr. Phil Karp)...........2 Tales from the Sea: developing and sharing your science and conservation story (8:30 - 17:30, Kabu) (Dr. Kirsten Gorud-Colvert, Dr. Stephanie Green, Ms. Heather Mannix)..2 Indo-Pacific Seagrass Network (IPSN): Assessing the value of seagrass for supporting liveli- hoods and food supply across the Indo-Pacific: A focus on gleaning. (8:30 - 17:30, Tubau 1) (Mr. Benjamin Jones, Dr. Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, Dr. Richard Unsworth, Dr. Lina Mtwana Nordlund, Dr. Johan Eklöf )..........................2 Talking the talk - giving effective and engaging presentations to diverse audiences (8:30 - 12:30, Tubau 3) (Prof. Chris Parsons, Ms. Katie Walters).................2 Using social media to make your marine science matter (13:30 - 17:30, Tubau 3) (Dr. David Shiffman, Ms. Ting-Chun Kuo, Ms. Katie Walters)......................3 23 June ...............................................3 Finding and Communicating the Human Dimensions of your Marine Conservation Re- search or Project (8:30 - 17:30, Tubau 1) (Dr. Kelly Biedenweg, Dr. Ana Spalding, Ms. Heather Mannix).......................................3 Tales from the Sea: developing and sharing your science and conservation story (8:30 - 17:30, Kabu) (Dr. Kirsten Gorud-Colvert, Dr. Stephanie Green, Ms. Heather Mannix)..3 How does scientific research ’impact’ on-the-ground decisions? Developing a typology, model, and common language for mainstream conservation science (13:30 - 17:30, Tubau 2) (Dr. Clare Fieseler, Dr. John Cigliano, Mr. Matt Tietbohl)............3 IMCC5 Day 1 (24/6) 4 Opening Ceremony (11:00 - 12:45, Ranyai Ballroom) .....................4 Plenary 1: Enriquetta Velarde, Ph.D. (13:45 - 14:45, Ranyai Ballroom)............4 MPA Community Forum (16:00 - 18:00, Tubau 2-3) (Dr. Jane Lubchenko)..........4 Society for Conservation Biology Marine Section Member’s Meeting (16:00 - 18:00, Tubau 1)4 IMCC5 Bioblitz (16:00 - 18:00, Kuching Waterfront).......................4 Hacking for Conservation - Make for the Planet pre-conference workshop (16:00 - 18:00, Keranga) (Dr. Barbara Martinez)..............................4 vii IMCC5 Day 2 (25/6) 5 Plenary 2: Joshua Cinner, Ph.D. (8:30 - 9:30, Ranyai Ballroom)................5 Focus Group: Determining Bycatch Susceptibility of Finfish and Invertebrates (10:00 - 12:00, Kabu) (Dr. Sara McDonald, Ms. Wendy Norden)..................5 OS-1A: Marine Tourism 1 (10:00 - 12:00, Tubau 1) .......................5 10:00 - Making Coral Reefs Matter to Tourism Under Threat in Guam (Ms. Mallory Morgan)..5 10:15 - Evaluating the Sustainability of the Gray Whale-Watching Industry Along the Pacific Coast of North America (Ms. Alicia Amerson, Prof. Chris Parsons)............6 10:30 - Examination of tourists’ willingness to pay under different conservation scenarios; Evi- dence from reef manta ray based snorkeling in Fiji. (Dr. Joshua Adam Drew, Ms. Shannon Murphy Parsons, Dr. Ian Campbell).............................6 10:45 - Towards an effective tourism management in Karimunjawa National Park (Mr. Azhar Muttaqin, Mrs. Shinta Pardede, Mr. Efin Muttaqin).....................6 11:00 - Long-term change of herbivorous fish population after the 2010 coral bleaching event at tourism sites in the Gulf of Thailand (Mr. Sittiporn Pengsakun, Dr. Thamasak Yeemin, Dr. Makamas Sutthacheep, Mr. Charernmee Chamchoy)....................6 11:15 - Re-authoring of guides from capacity development processes,the key to the sustainable management of the whale shark in La Paz Bay (Mrs. Lizbeth Meza, Mrs. Gabriela Moreno, Dr. Dení Ramírez-Macías, Ms. Maritza Cruz Castillo, Mrs. Georgina Saad, Dr. Jorge Cáceres)............................................7 11:30 - What dive professionals know OR local ecological knowledge for the Millennial Gener- ation (Dr. Edward Hind-Ozan, Dr. Andrea Sáenz-Arroyo)..................7 OS-1B: Fisheries and Aquaculture 1 (10:00 - 12:00, FJ Auditorium) .............7 10:00 - A multidisciplinary approach to establishing a shifting baseline for the Japanese dogfish (Squalus suckleyi) (Ms. Markeike Dornhege, Prof. Anne Mcdonald)............7 10:15 - Regulating shark and ray mortality through effective policy (Mr. Daniel Fernando, Ms. Rosalind Brown, Mr. Akshay Tanna).............................7 10:30 - Global Shark Trends (Prof. Nicholas Dulvy, Prof. Colin Simpfendorfer).........8 10:45 - Genomically-informed Fisheries Management of White Seabass (Atractoscion nobilis) (Dr. Matthew Iacchei,Dr. Jonathan Whitney, Dr. Kimberly Selkoe, Mr. Scott Aalbers, Dr. Chugey Sepulveda, Ms. Alfonsina Romo-Curiel, Dr. Sharon Herzka, Dr. Robert Toonen, Dr. Hunter Lenihan).....................................8 11:00 - Trends of mobulids ray fishery: a case study of Indonesian megafauna hunters community (Mr. Mochamad Iqbal Herwata Putra, Ms. Sarah Lewis)..................8 11:15 - Collaborative and innovative approaches to achieving sustainability in Indonesian small- scale tuna fisheries (Ms. Allison Stocks)...........................8 11:30 - The scaling of area use in sharks and rays (Dr. Christopher Mull, Dr. Vinay Udyawer, Dr. Michelle Heupel, Prof. Colin Simpfendorfer, Prof. Nicholas Dulvy).............9 11:45 - Sustainable management of grouper and snapper fisheries: the case of Saleh Bay, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (Mr. Tezar Rafandi, Ms. Siska Agustina, Ms. Hernawati Her- nawati, Ms. Sitti Hilyana, Mr. Tasrif Kartawijaya, Dr. Arisetiarso Soemodinoto)......9 OS-1C: Culture and the Marine Environment 1 (10:00 - 12:00, FJ Event Hall) .......9 10:00 - When Fishing Communities Meet Tourism: Fishers’ and Tourists’ Perceptions on Holbox Island. (Dr. Nadia Rubio, Dr. Marcia Moreno Báez, Dr. Jeffrey Glover, Dr. Dominique Rissolo, Ms. Chapin Dorsett, Mr. Erick Higuera, Dr. Igor Rubio, Dr. Andrea Sáenz Arroyo, Ms. Sara Morales, Dr. Silvia Salas, Dtr. Jorge Herrera Silveira)..............9 10:15 - Global dugong conservation and cultural values (Dr. Donna Kwan)............9 10:30 - The nexus of science, culture, and marine resources: stories from the outer islands of Micronesia and why they matter (Prof. Nicole Crane, Mr. John Rumal, Dr. Michelle Paddack, Dr. Peter Nelson, Dr. Giacomo Bernardi)..................... 10 viii 10:45 - Why save sharks?: A case for a relational values approach to studying shark conservation (Ms. Rachel Skubel, Mrs. Gina Maranto, Dr. Meryl Shriver-Rice)............. 10 11:00 - Marine Planning, Management and Conservation depend
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    RESEARCH ARTICLE Molecular systematics of the anchovy genus Encrasicholina in the Northwest Pacific SeÂbastien Lavoue 1*, Joris A. M. Bertrand1,2,3, Hui-Yu Wang1, Wei-Jen Chen1, Hsuan- Ching Ho4, Hiroyuki Motomura5, Harutaka Hata6, Tetsuya Sado7, Masaki Miya7 1 Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2 Department of Computational Biology, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 3 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, GeÂnopode, Quartier Sorge, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4 National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan, 5 The Kagoshima University Museum, 1-21-30 Korimoto, Kagoshima, Japan, 6 The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima, a1111111111 Japan, 7 Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, a1111111111 955-2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba, Japan a1111111111 a1111111111 * [email protected] a1111111111 Abstract The anchovy genus Encrasicholina is an important coastal marine resource of the tropical OPEN ACCESS Indo-West Pacific (IWP) region for which insufficient comparative data are available to eval- Citation: Lavoue S, Bertrand JAM, Wang H-Y, uate the effects of current exploitation levels on the sustainability of its species and popula- Chen W-J, Ho H-C, Motomura H, et al. (2017) tions. Encrasicholina currently comprises nine valid species that are morphologically very Molecular systematics of the anchovy genus similar. Only three, Encrasicholina punctifer, E. heteroloba, and E. pseudoheteroloba, occur Encrasicholina in the Northwest Pacific. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0181329. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. in the Northwest Pacific subregion of the northeastern part of the IWP region. These species pone.0181329 are otherwise broadly distributed and abundant in the IWP region, making them the most Editor: Bernd Schierwater, Tierarztliche important anchovy species for local fisheries.