Dear Friends and Colleagues:
The International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET) has issued its second call for abstracts for presentation at our next biennial conference, IIFET 2006 Portsmouth: Rebuilding Fisheries in an Uncertain Environment. The conference will be organized by CEMARE at the University of Portsmouth, UK, July 11-14 2006. Anyone with an interest in the conference topics is welcome to attend either as a presenter or audience member; IIFET's goal is to act as a neutral international forum for the exchange of ideas on fisheries management, seafood trade, aquaculture economics, and fisheries development-related issues from government, academic, industry, international agency, or NGO perspectives. Below are listed the main conference topics and just a small sample of the sessions to be organized within these themes:
Fish for the future: recovering fisheries from crisis or collapse
Post-Tsunami Damage Assessment and Rehabilitation
Rebuilding the Seafood Industry after a Natural Disaster: A Case Study of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
The Economic Effects of Climate Change on Fisheries
Ocean management: fisheries and the ecosystem
Management of High Seas Fisheries
Policy Day: Linking policy directions, industry needs and research priorities
Aquaculture
Economic Interactions of Farmed Salmon and North American Wild Salmon
Use of Fishmeal in Salmon Aquaculture: Sustainability, PCBs and International Trade
Development
Fisheries Development: Vulnerability Reduction for Improved Fisheries Governance
Marketing
International Trade
The Use of Trade and Market-Related Instruments to Reinforce Fisheries Management Measures and Minimise IUU Fishing on the High Seas
Trade Liberalization and Market Access Issues in Fisheries
How Effective are Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties at Achieving their Goal? The Case of Seafood Trade
Modelling
Policy and Management
Roundtable Discussion: Does Capacity Analysis Help Us Meet Fishery Policy and Management Objectives?
Fishing Communities and Fishery Management: Economics and Property Rights
The four-day conference will be complemented by social events including a welcome reception, plus a conference banquet aboard the HMS Warrior (pride of Queen Victoria's fleet!). Please visit http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/IIFET/SecondCall.pdf to read the full text of the Second Call, and visit the conference website at http://www.iifet2006.org/ to submit your abstracts by February 10, 2006.
You may contact Ann.L.Shriver@oregonstate.edu or enquiries@iifet2006.org for further information.
We look forward to welcoming you to Portsmouth, UK next July.
Ann Shriver
Executive Director, International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET)
Director, Business Office, North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE)
Oregon State University
Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Corvallis, OR 97331-3601 USA
Email: Ann.L.Shriver@oregonstate.edu
IIFET Website: http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/IIFET
NAAFE Website: http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/IIFET/NAAFE/Home.html
Phone: 541 737 1416 Fax: 541 737 2563
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