30th Wakefield Fisheries Symposium

Tools and Strategies for Assessment and Management of Data-Limited Fish Stocks

Organizers of the 30th Wakefield Fisheries Symposium announce a call for abstracts. The theme for the 2015 symposium is "Tools and Strategies for Assessment and Management of Data-Limited Fish Stocks." It will be held 12-15 May 2015 in Anchorage, Alaska.

The symposium will bring together fishery and social scientists, managers, fishermen, and others from around the world. Organizers invite abstract submissions in the following topic areas:

• Potential new types of data for assessment and management
• Alternative stock assessment methods
• Methods to incorporate uncertainty in assessment and management
• Integration of social and economic considerations into management
• Strategies for the management of mixed commercial, recreational, and/or subsistence fisheries
• Methods for determining catch limits and alternative management measures

To contribute an oral or poster presentation, submit an abstract using the submission form on the symposium website. Abstracts must include:

• Type of presentation preferred (oral or poster).
• Topic area from the above list, or suggest a topic.
• Title, 10 words or fewer.
• Author names, affiliation, city, country, and email.
• Name of presenter and contact person.
• Text of abstract in 250 words or less; please do not include any headings, tables, figures.

Submission deadline: Friday, 30 January 2015.