Behavioral Perspectives in Fish Conservation and Management

Moderators: Joseph J. Parkos III and David H. Wahl
Emails: parkos@uiuc.edu and d-wahl@uiuc.edu

Date: Thursday, September 15, 2005
Time: 8:00 am to 3:20 pm
Location: Egan 4

This proposed symposium aims to provide a forum wherein researchers and managers can present data, ideas, and models that either demonstrate how the behavioral ecology of fishes can alter the outcomes of fish conservation and management plans or illustrate how information on individual behavior can be integrated into the higher levels of biological organization relevant for conservation and management. Fisheries science is by its very nature a multi-disciplinary field, but nonetheless, the primarily academic arena of behavioral and evolutionary ecology is seldom rigorously incorporated into the applied domains of fish conservation and management. This proposed symposium would help to foster deeper and more practical connections across the historically disparate fields of behavioral ecology and fisheries management. The invited speakers span a wide spectrum of issues associated with fish conservation and management as well as fish behavior. Behavioral topics would include parental care, breeding systems, dispersal and migration, predator avoidance, habitat selection, territoriality, and foraging. These behavioral approaches could be applied to issues such as sanctuary design, responses to exploitation and habitat loss, stocking success, population recovery from bottlenecks, and response to exotic species introductions.

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