Graduate Student Symposium on Fish Population Dynamics and Management Graduate Student Symposium on Fish Population Dynamics and Management Summary of the Symposium Ecosystem and Fisheries

Washington. Since then the graduate student symposium has been providing a unique venue for fisheries students to meet and discuss their work, and to foster communication links between graduate students in different west coast universities and departments. This report is an attempt to disseminate the information on current research and ideas been developed by students in the different universities, and as so, contains abstracts and summaries presented by each speaker at the third annual conference. Readers interested in further details on the research work presented in this report should contact the respective authors at the addresses provided in the list of participants. We thank everyone who made the event possible, specially all the students for the pleasant atmosphere during the meeting. Thanks also to the Faculty of Graduate Students, UBC, and specially for Tony Pitcher, Director of the Fisheries Centre, for providing funds and support for the conference. The symposium was organized in four general subjects: ecosystems and fisheries; fish population dynamics and behaviour; climate and fisheries; and fisheries management. There was much discussion and an open exchange of views as the participants took advantage of an opportunity to discuss their research without the perception of pressure from advisors, faculty, or established researches. The conference was a success, illustrative of the high quality of fisheries research that is being conducted in the Pacific Northwest. Next years symposium will be held at the School of Fisheries, University of Washington. Response of kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) to large-scale nutrient additions: diet, density and distribution. 15:30 Johanne Dalsgard, UBC. The fate of radionuclides in a marine ecosystem. Fish population dynamics and behavior 9:30 Jeff Grout, SFU. An evaluation of the management implications of depensatory predation mortality in Pacific Salmon using Bayesian decision analysis 9:50 Narima Jiddawi, UBC. Estimation of growth, mortality, recruitment and exploitation rate of Rastrelliger kanagurta (Scombridae) in the coastal waters of Zanzibar Island, East Africa. 10:10 Steven Mackinson, UBC. Bioeconomics and catchability: Fish and fishers behavior during stock collapse. 11:00 Anthony Courtney, UBC. Population dynamics, uncertainty and utility per recruit in Scyllarid lobsters (Thenus spp.) on Australia's east coast. 11:40 Sylvie Guénette, UBC. The role of marine reserves for migrating and schooling fish. The implication of long term variability in the California Current's coastal pelagic fisheries. Fisheries Management 10:00 Dave Preikshot, UBC. Using multivariate statistics to assess tropical artisanal fisheries 10:20 Hreidar Valtyson, UBC. Fisheries in Iceland from 1950 to …