Second International Symposium on
Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching
About the Symposium
The Second International Symposium on Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching was held from January 28 to February 1, 2002, at the Kobe Portopia Hotel in Chuo Ward in Kobe City, Japan, under the auspices of the Japan Fisheries Agency and the Japan Sea-Farming Association. The symposium was designed to exchange technological information necessary for the effective promotion of stock enhancement and sea ranching. It was also aimed at providing a forum for the discussion of problems necessary to resolve in developing fisheries stock enhancement and to suggest measures to solve the problems.
Ichiro Nomura, assistant director-general of the Fisheries Department of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), was scheduled to deliver a special lecture at the symposium. The meeting started with a plenary session of specialists from Japan, Norway, the U. S., Canada and FAO. Delegates from participating nations gave oral reports on examples of their research, including seed quality and effective stocking, health management of hatchery stocks, methods for evaluating stocking effectiveness, Population management in stock enhancement and sea ranching, Management of stocked populations, Ecological interactions with wild stocks, Genetic management of hatchery and wild stocks, Socio-economics of stock enhancement and case studies.
The symposium addressed the following themes:
- The present situation of stock enhancement
- Seed quality and techniques for effective stocking
- Health management of hatchery stocks
- Methods for evaluating stocking effectiveness
- Population management in stock enhancement and sea ranching
- Management of stocked populations
- Ecological interactions with wild stocks
- Genetic management of hatchery and wild stocks
- Socio-economics of stock enhancement
- Case studies
Much of the research results presented are published in the proceedings, available through Blackwell Science