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OVERVIEW
The Seventh International Conference on Artificial Reefs and Related Aquatic Habitats (7th CARAH) seeks to promote an international exchange of information on the use of artificial reefs to enhance and manage marine and freshwater resources (such as fisheries) and protect the natural environment. Artificial habitats include benthic reefs, fish aggregating devices and other man-made structures used to enrich aquatic environments, fishing opportunities and populations of marine and freshwater plants and animals.
The Conference will provide a forum to present results of
research, development and science-based management designed to enhance aquatic habitats in the world's marine, estuarine, and freshwater ecosystems. Professionals from all nations are invited to present theoretical and practical applications of science, management, engineering and technology through plenary, special and technical sessions. The main current sponsors and organisers are: ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea), SIBM (Italian Society for Marine Biology), EARRN (European Artificial Reef Research Network), San Remo Congressi Turismo (San Remo Tourist office) and the University of Genoa. Other sponsors are pending.
OBJECTIVES
To provide an international forum for the exchange of new technical information on all aspects of artificial reefs and related habitats. To promote new research, programmes and policies which advance artificial habitat enhancement and management technologies. To summarise existing programmes on artificial habitat technology, including evaluation of effectiveness at the international level.
PARTICIPANTS
The Fourth International Conference was held in Miami, Florida, in 1987; the fifth in Long Beach, California, in 1991; the sixth in Tokyo, Japan, in 1995. These meetings substantially advanced the science of artificial habitat development and management and identified many of the areas to be pursued in the following years. A much enlarged global network of interests in this technology appeared. In Europe the EARRN was created to foster collaboration between researchers.
The organisers of 7th CARAH invite researchers, scientists, engineers, managers and others interested in artificial habitats such as government staff and officials, members of environmental groups, socio-economists, industry and business to participate in the conference. Attendance will particularly benefit those involved with marine and freshwater resource management; artisanal, recreational and commercial fishing; sport diving and other artificial structure tourism; environmental restoration and environmental mitigation. The conference is designed to serve those interested in basic research, applied technology and the management of marine and freshwater artificial habitat.
A commercial exhibition will display items and services of interest to the artificial reef/habitat community. The organisers invite those interested in exhibiting at the conference to contact them via the conference secretariat.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
Technical Sessions
Results of research, planning and implementation, as well as syntheses of recent efforts, are encouraged within the following themes. Each session will contain a mix of papers from freshwater, brackish and marine environments that share a common theme. The language of the conference is English. Subjects of timely interest include:
* Planning: local, state, provincial, prefectural, regional and national perspectives on legal and policy issues. Reef ownership and user issues. Needs, goals and practices, including evaluation. International dumping conventions.
* Function and Ecology: how artificial habitats fulfill life history and ecological requirements. Yield, production, reproduction, recruitment, behaviour, and residence of organisms.
* Options for Designing Habitat Systems: integration of biology with design, engineering and material selection, structures designed for a target species, multipurpose structures designed to fulfill several functions.
* Habitat Protection: mitigation and restoration: the emerging issues of compensation, replacement, and valuation purposes, and responsible application.
* Evaluation of Reef Performance: techniques to assess and measure how well a reef achieves its stated objectives.
* Artificial Substrata Reefs: the environmentally acceptable reuse of materials in planned and targeted artificial reef programmes. Secondary use of marine structures (such as steel jackets) as artificial reefs.
* Monitoring and Assessment: physical, environmental, social and economic evaluation.
* Artisanal Fishing: systems and innovation.
* Other Habitat Enhancement: habitat modifications other than artificial reefs and fish aggregating devices that serve to enhance fisheries and/or nature conservation.
* Mariculture: the uses of artificial structures in mariculture developments.
The organisers welcome suggestions for other theme topics from participants.
Poster Session
Poster sessions are an excellent opportunity to foster one-on-one exchange between professionals. Posters are invited for papers which entail descriptive studies, regional or local programme descriptions and preliminary results from studies in progress.
Plenary Session
Invited scientific and policy keynote speeches are in preparation by recognized authorities. A unique part of the programme will be dedicated to the topics of (1) law and international agreement in artificial reef deployment and (2) from attraction to production, new perspectives.
Exhibits
An extensive exhibit of products and services related to artificial reef and fish attracting device technologies is planned as part of the conference. For additional information, contact the Technical Secretariat.
Conference Registration and Information
The fee is US$ 210. Students pay 50% of the fee. Registration fee provides a volume of abstracts, admission to conference, receptions, trade exhibition and poster session, refreshment breaks, use of help desk and final proceedings.
Hotel reservation information, reduced airfare arrangements and other information will be displayed, when available, on the conference webpage.
Field Trips and Related Activities
If demand is sufficient (indicate your requirements on the registration form) visits to the Loano artificial reef, Genova Aquarium and the Oceanographic Institute and Aquarium at Montecarlo will be organized.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Submission and Review of Abstracts
Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts for papers and posters for the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Reefs and Related Aquatic Habitats. Selected papers will be presented by the author(s) at the conference in San Remo, Italy, October 7-11, 1999. Papers will be presented in the technical, special or poster sessions noted. Authors should indicate the intended session. Posters will have a special session and remain on display throughout the meeting. Please use format for abstracts shown below or/and see Web Site. Poster will not exceed 120x150 cm.
SAMPLE FORMAT FOR ABSTRACTS
(see Web Site: http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/SUDO/DEPT/7CARAH/7carah.html)
THE TITLE OF THE ABSTRACT SHOULD BE ALL 14 POINT
CAPITAL LETTERS AND CENTERED
Charles A. Wilson, Coastal Fisheries Institute, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 USA (tel 504/ 388 6283, E-mail Wilson@aol.com)
(Presenter) 10 point and centered
William Seaman Jr., Florida Sea Grant College Program, Building 803 Room 4,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA (tel 904 3925870,
E-mail seaman@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu) (Co-author) 10 point and centered
The abstract should be in English and include a summary of objectives, methodology, results and significance of research. Please, include quantitative information as far as is possible. Abstracts should be brief and concise, yet permit objective evaluation for the selection of papers for the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Reefs and Related Aquatic Habitats. Papers and posters will be selected by members of the Steering Committee. Abstracts should be typed single space, fully justified, using 12 pt Times New Roman font, not exceed one A4 page and be less than 400 words. Do not indent but skip a line between paragraphs. Please, use 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins left, right, top & bottom.
Indicate the session most appropriate for your subject matter and preference, if any, for a poster session or presented paper session, and audio visual aids required (eg. 35 mm slides, video and format, overhead transparencies, 2 x 2 slide).
Deadline for Abstracts
Abstracts must be received by the end of February 1999
Dr. Antony Jensen
7th CARAH Conference Vice-Chair
School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14 3ZH - U.K.
E-mail:a.jensen@soc.soton.ac.uk
Telephone (direct): + 44 1703 593428 - Fax (direct): + 44 1703 596642
Abstracts should be submitted in electronic format (word or wordperfect) and be sent by air-mail or E-mail. If electronic format is not possible abstracts should be typed on good quality white paper and mailed. These will be scanned. Acceptances and session assignments will be mailed before June 1999. For further information, contact any Steering Committee member.
Publication of Conference Proceedings
Conference proceedings will be published as a special issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science. All abstracts will be published. Authors who wish to publish complete papers in the conference proceedings must submit manuscripts one month before the conference. Only those manuscripts receiving acceptable peer review by the Conference Steering Committee and by the ICES Journal of Marine Science will be published in their entirety. Instructions for preparing manuscripts will be forwarded with acceptance of abstracts and may be found in "Information for Contributors" of a recent ICES Journal of Marine Science. All abstracts will be collected in a volume distributed during the Conference.
Registration Form
Fees for registration are US$ 210 Students who provide documentation as proof of status pay 50% of fee.
Return this form to: Conference organizing secretariat, 7th CARAH, c/o
Sanremo Congressi Turismo, 18038, Sanremo, Italy, Tel. +39 184 530719, Fax
+39 184 574574, E-mail s.congr@sistel.it
Name and title:
Affiliation:
Address:
Telephone:
Fax:
Email:
Tick as required:
* I wish to pre-register for the 7th CARAH, please send me the 2nd circular.
* I wish to register for the 7th CARAH and enclose payment of US$ ,
please send me details of hotels.
Note: payment can be made by credit card (MasterCard/Visa/Amex/Diners) or
international money order, to Sanremo Congressi Turismo.
* I wish to register for the 7th CARAH. Please send me an invoice and
further details of accommodation.
I intend to present/co-author a paper entitled:
I intend to display/co-author a poster entitled:
I have submitted/intend to submit (delete as appropriate) an abstract to Dr
Antony Jensen (a.jensen@soc.soton.ac.uk)
To facilitate the organisation please indicate which, if any, visits you wish to make and when. There will be an additional charge to cover the cost of these visits. There is no commitment at this stage to take these trips, we just need an indication of interest.
Visit to:
* Loano artificial reef before /after 7th CARAH (please delete as appropriate)
* Genova Aquarium before /after 7th CARAH (please delete as appropriate)
* Montecarlo Institute of Oceanography and Aquarium before/after 7th CARAH
(please delete as appropriate)
International Co-ordinators
Colleagues in over 20 countries already have agreed to serve as International Co-ordinators for the Conference. They are publicising the programme, helping to identify presentations, and developing information about regional activities. Please, visit the 7th CARAH webpage (http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/SUDO/DEPT/7CARAH/7carah.html), contact a member of the organising committee or steering committee for the names of co-ordinators in your area.
Conference Technical Secretariat
7th CARAH c/o SIBM
Institute of Zoology - University of Genova
via Balbi, 5 - 16126 Genova - Italy
E-mail: sibmzool@unige.it
Fax and telephone: +39 10 2477537
Organising Committee
* Conference Chair, Prof. Giulio Relini, SIBM and University of Genoa, Italy (Tel. and Fax: +39 10 2477537; E-mail: sibmzool@unige.it)
* Conference Vice-Chair, Dr. Antony Jensen, EARRN Co-ordinator, University of Southampton, U.K. (Tel. +44 1703 593428, Fax: +44 1703 596642, E-mail: a.jensen@soc.soton.ac.uk)
* Prof. Giovanni Bombace, President of ISMARE (National Institute for Marine Sciences Coordination, Italian Research Council), Italy (Tel. +39 71 207881, Fax: +39 71 55313, E-mail: ismare@irpem.an.cnr.it)
* Prof. Stefano Cataudella, Chairman of Aquacolture Committee of FAO-GFCM, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy (Tel. +39 6 72595954, Fax: +39 6 2026189, E-mail: cataudel@uniroma2.it)
* Dr. Ken Collins, University of Southampton, U.K. (Tel. +44 1703 596010, Fax: +44 1703 596642, E-mail: k.collins@soc.soton.ac.uk)
* Prof. François Doumenge, Director of Oceanographic Institute in Monaco, ICSEM General Secretary (Tel. +377 93153600, Fax: +377 93505297)
* Mrs. Cristina Siccardi, and Dr. Graziano Consiglieri, Sanremo Congressi Turismo, Sanremo, Italy (Tel.+39 184 530719, Fax: +39 184 574574, E-mail:sanremo.congressi@sistel.it).
Steering Committee
* Prof. William Seaman, Florida Sea Grant Program, University of Florida, USA (Tel. +1 352 392 5870 ext 228, Fax: + 1 352 392 5113, E-mail: seaman@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu)
* Dr. Josianne Stottrup, ICES Representative, Danish Institute for Fisheries and Marine Research, Denmark (Tel. +45 98 94 45 00, Fax: +45 33963200, E-mail: jgs@dfu.min.dk)
* Prof. Ehud Spanier, Centre for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa, Israel (Tel. +972 4 8240782, Fax: +972 4 824 0493, E-mail: spanier@research.haifa.ac.il)
* Rob Leewis, RIVM, Holland (Tel. +31 302 742695, Fax: + 31 302744433, E-mail: rob.leewis@rivm.nl)
* Dr. Stephen A. Bortone, Biology Department, University of West Florida, USA (Tel.: 904 474 2647, Fax: 904 474 3130, E-mail: sbortone@uwf.edu)
* Dr. Chokei Itosu, Department of Marine Science & Technology, Tokyo University, Japan (Tel. +81 3 5463 0472, Fax: +81 3 5463 0517, E-mail: itosu@tokyo-u-fish.ac.jp)
* Dr. Charles A. Wilson, Coastal Fisheries Institute, Louisiana State University, USA (Tel. 904 392 5870, E-mail: wilsonLSU@aol.com).
* Mr. Robert Grove, Southern California Edison, USA (Tel. 626 302 9735, Fax 626 302 9730, E-mail: grovers@sce.com).
* Dr Antony Jensen, Department of Oceanography, University of Southampton, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK. e-mail a.jensen@soc.soton.ac.uk
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