PROUD HOSTS OF THE 15th INTERNATIONAL SALMONID CONFERENCE 2006
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** Please note: All times and details listed below are provisional and subject to final confirmation**
09.00
Registration & coffee
09.30
Ian Gregg, ART Chairman
Welcome to Conference
09.35
Cllr Mick Henry, Gateshead Council
Welcome to Tyneside
Session 1 - The River Tyne and Post Industrial Recovery of Salmonid Rivers
Chairman: Keith Hendry
09.45
Hugh Clear-Hill
Tyne : A river re-born
10.05
Nigel Milner
The role of stocking in salmon fisheries recovery: lessons from the River Tyne and elsewhere
10.35
David Archer
Temperature effects of Kielder and impact on Tyne
10.55
Peter Gough & Katherine Causer
Post industrial recovery in Wales and the Mersey
11.25
Refreshment break
11.45
Barry Bendall
The behaviour of adult Atlantic salmon in the R. Tyne estuary as revealed by miniature dual sensor acoustic transmitters
12.05
Martin O’Grady
Habitat restoration uses in river recovery in Ireland
12.25
Stephen Marsh-Smith
Remediation of acid rivers and recovery on the Wye
12.45
Questions
13.00
Lunch
Session 2 - Marine Issues & Climatic Change
Chairman: Andy Moore
14.10
Malcolm Windsor
SALSEA project
14.30
Douglas Booker
Modelling trajectories & growth of migrating Atlantic salmon
14.50
Jamie Stevens
The Atlantic Salmon Arc Project (using genetics to understand the marine life history of salmon)
15.10
Patrick Boylan
The influence of broad scale climatic phenomena on long term trends in Atlantic salmon population size: an example from the River Foyle, Ireland
15.30
15.50
Ian Winfield
Arctic charr in Windermere. Climate change, eutrophication and cyprinids
16.10
Keith Hendry & Judith Brown
Application of catchment scale electrofishing
16.30
To be confirmed
16.50
17.10
Close
Wednesday 18 th October 2006
Arlin Rickard, ART Director
Welcome
09.10
Sir John Harman
Chairman of the Environment Agency
Session 3 - Fisheries Management
Chairman: Don Duff
Ron Campbell
Fisheries Management: 15 years on the Tweed
09.50
Phil Roni
Effectiveness of common habitat restoration techniques on salmonids in the Pacific NW USA
10.20
Francois Edwards
Consequences of Atlantic salmon re-introduction to a Dorset stream: a food web study
10.40
Colin Adams
Arctic charr Diversity, conservation importance and management difficulties in the Arctic charr
11.00
11.30
Gavin Stewart
Does the use of instream structures and woody debris increase the abundance of salmonids?
11.50
Graeme Harris
Sea trout
12.10
Miran Aprahamian & Ian Davidson
Change in life histories of migratory trout from the River Dee, Wales .
12.30
12.50
Session 4 - River Basin Challenges
Chairman: Dafydd Evans
14.00
Lucy Dugdale
Catchment scale structuring of Atlantic salmon and brown trout juvenile populations by topographically controlled hydrological connectivity
Louise Bracken
Effects of silt transfer on salmonids and conservation species
Jarle Steinkjer
Control and eradication of the Atlantic salmon parasite Gyrodactylus salaris in Norway
Andy Moore
The impact of environmental levels of freshwater contaminants on Atlantic salmon populations
16.00
Dmitry Lisitsyn
Vostochny wild salmon refuge
Juan Antonio Lazaro
Salmon in Northern Spain ( Asturias )
Andrew Wallace
The Tri-partite Working Group – Resolving Conflict Between Salmon Aquaculture & Wild Salmonid Management in Scotland
17.30
Professor E Maltby
Closing remarks
17.40
Close & field trip instructions
Field Visit - Thursday 19th October
08.00 - 17.00 Departing from Copthorne
Tweed visit option – Lower river, Ford & Etal Mill, Wooler, Hardy Museum .
08.45 - 17.00 Departing from Copthorne
Eden visit option – Habitat improvements, mobile classroom with underwater camera & electrofishing.
Field Visit - Friday 20th October
09.00 - 16.00 Departing from Copthorne
Tyne visit – Riding Mill, Kielder hatchery & smolt trap
