IFM49thAnnualConference

“ThrivingorSurviving–CreatingResilientFisheries”

TheGuildhall,Hull .

October16th–18th2018

Programme

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TuesdayOctober16th.9.30–17.20

Opening Session

Session Chair: Peter Spillett. IFM

09:30 Richard Noble, Conference Chair

Welcome from the IFM Yorkshire Branch

09:40

TBC

Official Conference Opening

10:00

Martyn Lucas, Durham University,

John Gregory Memorial Lecture

Fish, space, and river reconnection

10:40 Peter Gough, World Fish Migration Foundation

Fish Migration 2.0

11.00

Break

Session 1. Resilient Fisheries 1

Session Chair: Paul Coulson, IFM

11:30

Steve Axford, IFM

Recovery and restoration of salmon stocks in the rivers of north east England

11:50

Martin Slater, Environment Agency

Our Rivers Recovery & Renewal: Reconnecting Yorkshire’s Rivers

12:10

Magnus Johnson, SEMS

A trans-Atlantic perspective of lobster (Homarus) fishing, management and trade

12:30

Rachel Ainsworth, Hull University

Declining resilience in fisheries: what happens when inland fisheries are lost?

12:50

Panel Q&A

13.00

LUNCH

Session 2. Resilient Environments

Session Chair:

14:00 Peter Walker, RSK

Creating sustainable homes – a need for long lasting habitat improvements for eels

14:20

Kathy Hughes, WWF

The SHOAL Project

14:40

Mark Tinsdeall, Yorkshire Water

Yorkshire Water flow adaptive management

15:00

Xingwei Cai, Hainan provincial marine and fisheries research institution

Factors influencing tropical Island freshwater fishes: species diversity, threats and conservation in Hainan Island

15.20

Panel Q&A

15.30

Break

Session 3. Habitat Management for Fish Session Chair:

16:00 Andy Nunn, Hull University

Managed realignment for habitat compensation: use of a new intertidal habitat by fishes

16:20

Shams M Galib, Durham University

Is current floodplain management a cause for concern for fish and bird conservation in Bangladesh’s largest wetland?

16:40

Ibrahim G. Alharthi, Hull University

Primarily aspects on Saudi freshwater fish resilience

17:00 Jon Grey, Wild Trout Trust

Improving habitats on the Yorkshire Aire

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 Humber Street Distillery. Hull Marina

Wednesday October 17th 9.15 – 17.45

Session 4. Yorkshires Rivers

Session Chair: Mike Lee, Environment Agency

09:15

Pete Turner, Environment Agency

There’s a change in the Aire

09:35

Tim Stone, Hull University

Fisheries and habitat response to physical habitat restoration in the River Washburn, North Yorkshire (UK).

09.55

Jon Traill, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

From Brown trout to Bittern - the Skerne Wetlands Nature Reserve

10:15

Paul Philips, Hull University

Disentangling the impacts of drought and water-resource management on riverine fishes

10:35

TBC, Environment Agency

Natural Flood Management in Yorkshire

10.55

Panel Q&A

11.05 Break

Session 5. Resilient Angling

Session Chair: Godfrey Williams.

11:35

Andrew Wedgbury, University of Worcester

Casting Further: Promoting angling to a wider audience through social media.

11:55

Adrian Pinder, Bournemouth University

Effect of seasonal water temperature on the post release performance of angled European grayling: implications for fishery management and species conservation

12.15

Tommy McDermott, Trex Ecology

Recovering recreational fisheries – A Scottish 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

Thursday October 18th 9.15 – 15.40

Session 6. Resilient Fisheries 2

Session Chair: Godfrey Williams.

09:15

Tim Smith, North East IFCA

Developing resilient inshore marine shellfisheries in North East England

09:35

Ryan Hupfield, American Fisheries Society

Natal Origin and Movement Patterns of Paddlefish within the Mississippi River Basin

09.55

Andrew Kerr, Sustainable Eel Group

10 Years of the Sustainable Eel Group

10:15

Amy Pryor and Steve Colclough. Thames Estuary Partnership and SC2

Estuary Edges 2018

10:35

Mike Roach, SEMS

Interactions of static gear fisheries and offshore Windfarms on the Yorkshire coast

10.55

Panel Q&A

11.05

Break

Session 7. Mitigation and Recovery

Session Chair:

11:35

Shaun Plenty, WSP

How robust are current pollution impact assessment and remediation strategies?

11:55

Alex Scorey, APEM

Application of probabilistic encounter and injury modelling techniques to predicting the impact of anthropogenic activities upon fisheries

12:15

Jamie Dodd, Hull University

Determining fish passage solution success for river-resident brown trout; the importance of ‘before’ data and understating the influence of flow, fish size and translocation.

12:35

Nicola Teague, APEM Ltd

Contextualising impacts on fish at the population and stock level to aid permitting decisions

12:55

Philip Smith, University of Hertfordshire

How resilient are canal fisheries to invasive species: a consideration of the ecological, legal, financial and practical aspects with special reference to the Zander, an introduced piscivorous fish

13.15

Panel Q&A

13.25

Lunch

Session 8. Future Proofing Fisheries

Session Chair: David Bunt. IFM

14:20 Peter Davies, Bournemouth University

Unlocking the Severn: past, present and future of the twaite shad (Alosa fallax) migration in the River Severn catchment

14:40

Richard Barnes, Hull University. School of Law and Politics

Fisheries post-Brexit – Progress and prospects

15:00

Adam Brown, Substance

The Future of Fisheries – What Can Angling Do?: Developing a New National Angling Strategy

15:20

Martin Van Nieuwenhuyzen, Aquatic Control Engineering

An Archimedean revolution on the Isle of Sheppey

15.40

John Ellis, Canal and River Trust

The fall and rise of freshwater angling participation in England & Wales

Panel Q&A

15.50

David Bunt, IFM

Closing Comments from the Institute

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