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Programme

Monday 19 July 2004

14:00-18:30   Registration                                Sir Alexander Fleming Building

18:30-19:30   Icebreaker Reception                 Senior Common Room, Sherfield Building

19:30            Dinner                                        Senior Common Room, Sherfield Building

Tuesday 20 July 2004

Note:  All lectures will take place in Lecture Theatre 1, Sir Alexander Fleming Building

 09:15           Welcome and announcements 

Session 1:  The biology of fish domestication
          (Chair:  Marc Mangel)

09:30            Jack Jones Memorial Lecture - Professor Eugene Balon
        About the oldest domesticates among fishes and the epigenetic dichotomy of fish culture

10:30            COFFEE/TEA

11:00            Randall Brummett and Raul Ponzi
                    Genetic Quality of Domesticated African Tilapia Populations

11:20            M. Lenhardt, M. Prokes, I. Jaric, V. Barus, J. Kolarevic, I. Krupka, G. Cvijanovic, P. Cakic  and Z. Gacic
                    Comparative analysis of morphometric characters of juvenile sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) from
                    natural populations and aquaculture

11:40            Guillaume Mairesse,  Marielle Thomas, Jean-Noël Gardeur and Jean Brun-Bellut
                    Reared perch vs. wild perch - First results about the organoleptical and technological quality

12:00            Bernard P Walrut
                    Domestication and absolute ownership of fish in the English common law

12:20            LUNCH

Session 2:  Behavioural and physiological consequences of domestication
                      (Chair:  John Armstrong)

14:00            Keynote:  Felicity Huntingford
                    Implications of domestication and rearing conditions for the behaviour of cultured fish

14:45            M.-L. Bégout Anras, J.P. Lagardère and D. Covès
                    Swimming activity of seabass: comparative patterns obtained in natural environments
                    and in recirculating tanks under high density            

15:05            Stephen P. Cotterell  and Clem S. Wardle
                    An investigation into the endurance swimming of diploid and triploid Atlantic salmon
                    (Salmo salar L.)

15:25            Eva Enders, Daniel Boisclair and André G. Roy
                    Differences in the energetic cost of swimming in turbulent flow between wild, farmed
                    and domesticated juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)

15:45            COFFEE/TEA

16:15            Lorraine A. Hawkins, Anne E. Magurran and John D. Armstrong
                    Rapid breathing in progress-wild and hatchery fish alert to danger!

16:35            Malavasi, S., Georgalas, V., Lugli, M., Torricelli, P. and Mainardi, D.
                    Differences in the pattern of antipredator behaviour between hatchery-reared and wild
                    Sea-bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles

16:55            Annamari Salone, and Nina Peuhkur
                    A year in the hatchery – effects on aggressive behaviour in young European grayling?

17:15            Heikki Hirvonen and Mika Laakkonen
                    Why do salmonid anti-predator responses weaken in hatchery breeding?

19:00            BARBEQUE AT LONDON ZOO - sponsored by The Zoological Society of London
                    (Coaches leave Imperial College at 18:15)

Wednesday 21 July 2004

Session 3:  Life history responses to culture
                      (Chair:  Kai Lorenzen)

09:00            Keynote:  John E. Thorpe (presented by Marc Mangel)
                    Life history responses of fishes to culture

09:45            Andy Ferguson, Philip McGinnity, Paulo Prodöhl, Rosallen Hynes, Niall Ó Maoiléidigh, Deirdre Cotter,
                    Natalie Baker and Brendan O’Hea
                    A comparison of survival, migration and growth of native, ranched and non-native Atlantic
                    salmon under natural conditions

10:05            John E Joyce, Alex C. Wertheimer, Andrew Gray and Frank Thrower
                    Comparison of Maturation Timing, Egg Size and Fecundity between Hatchery Lines of
                    Chinook Salmon and their Wild Donor Stocks

10:25            COFFEE/TEA

11:00            James E. Orpwood, Siân W. Griffiths and John D. Armstrong
                    Competitive asymmetries as influenced by density and rearing conditions amongst
                    overwintering sheltering juvenile salmon

11:20            John D. Armstrong, Keith M. Martin-Smith, Jörgen Johnsson and Björn Thrandur Björnsson
                    Growth hormone increases growth and dominance of wild juvenile Atlantic salmon without
                    affecting space use

11:40             Mirosław Cieśla and Ryszard Wojda (presented by Zbigniev Kaczkowski)
                    Effect of domestication on ide (Leuciscus idus L.) reproductive parameters

12:00            Carlos García de Leániz, S. Consuegra and A. Serdio
                    Maladaptation and phenotypic mismatch in cultured Atlantic salmon used for stocking

12:20            LUNCH

Session 4:  Genetics and evolution in widely cultured species
                      (Chair:  Robin Welcomme)

14:00            Keynote:  Fred M. Utter
                    Population genetics, conservation and evolution in widely cultured fishes

14:45            K.E. Jørstad, G. Nævdal, Ø. Karlsen, S. Torkildsen, O.L. Paulsen and H. Otterå
                    Long-term studies on genetic interactions between wild and ranched cod (Gadus morhua)
                    by use of a genetic marked strain

15:05            Jennifer L. Lawlor and Jeffrey A. Hutchings
                    Consequences to fitness-related traits of hybridisation between farmed and wild Atlantic
                    salmon, Salmo salar

15:25            William Smoker, Ivan Wang, Anthony Gharrett and Jeffrey Hard
                    No effect on survival at sea in second generation after outbreeding of coho salmon

15:45            COFFEE/TEA

16:15            Frank Thrower, Jeff Hard and John Joyce
                    Heritability of precocious maturation, smolting and growth in anadromous and derived
                    freshwater populations of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

16:35            Juha-Pekka K. Vähä and Craig R. Primmer
                    Efficiency of allele frequency based bayesian programs for detecting hybridization between
                    farmed and wild salmon

16:55            Overview of Posters

17:15            POSTER SESSION  -  Sponsored by Blackwell Publishing

Thursday 22 July 2004

Session 5:  Conservation aquaculture and fisheries enhancement
                      (Chair:  Fred M. Utter)

09:00            Mikhail S. Chebanov,  Elena.V. Galich and Yuri .N. Chmir
                    Stock enhancement and conservation culture of sturgeons: problems and prospects

09:20            John Selden Burke, James Morris and Judson Kenworthy
                    Polyculture production of juvenile fishes for survival in nature

09:40            Jonathan W. Carr and Fred G. Whoriskey
                    Feasibility of releasing captive reared broodstock into an imperiled wild salmon river
                    as a recovery strategy

10:00            Elizabeth A. Fairchild and W. Huntting Howell
                    Winter flounder stock enhancement: deficits in cultured fish              

10:20            COFFEE/TEA

10:50            Helge Paulsen and Josianne Støttrup
                    Growth rate and nutritional status of wild and reared juvenile turbot (Scophthalmus
                    maximus) in the Southern Kattegat           

11: 10           Ayesha Taylor, J. Robert Britton and Stephen A Axford
                    Comparison of the growth and condition of cultured barbel Barbus barbus (L.) introduced
                    into stillwater catch and release fisheries with wild barbel in riverine habitats

11:30            Kai Lorenzen
                    Population dynamics of fisheries stock enhancement

12:00            Annual General Meeting of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles           

13:00            LUNCH

Session 6:  Conservation risks from cultured fish in the wild
                      (Chair:  Malcolm Beveridge)

14:00            Keynote:  Ian Fleming
                    Reproductive ecology of cultured fish in the wild

14:45            Sean A. Hayes, Morgan H. Bond, Chad V. Hanson and R. Bruce MacFarlane
                    Interactions between endangered wild and hatchery salmonids; can the pitfalls of
                    artificial propagation be avoided in small coastal streams?

15:05            Anti Vasemägi
                    Compensatory releases reduce genetic differentiation among Atlantic salmon
                    populations in the Baltic Sea: evidence from the River Ume-Vindelävlen

15:25            Andi Stephens and Andrew B. Cooper
                    Ecological model of interactions between escaped and wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

15:45            COFFEE/TEA

16:15            Ravi K. Chatterji, Dominic N. Stubbing, Anthony W. Bark and W. Peter Williams
                    Experimental investigation of the success of stocked, domesticated brown trout and their
                    effects on wild brown trout in upland and lowland rivers

16:35            Jan Baer
                    Stocking hatchery-reared brown trout in different densities into a wild population - a
                    comparison of growth and movement

16:55            Edmund J. Peeler and Alexander G. Murray
                    Disease interaction between farmed and wild fish populations

17:15            Ondrej Slavík, Ludek Bartoš and Pavel Horký
                    What are the reasons of the Prussian carp expansion in the Upper Elbe River,
                    Czech Republic

 19:00           CONFERENCE DINNER

Friday 23 July 2004

Session 7:  Contributions to fundamental biology and synthesis
                      (Chair:  Ian Fleming)

09:00            Keith H. Nislow, John D. Armstrong, Ben H. Letcher, and Sigurd Einum
                    The ecology of Atlantic salmon during the transition from maternal dependence to independent
                    feeding: experiments with stocked fish

09:20            Marc Suquet, Marie-Joëlle Rochet and Jean Louis Gaignon
                    Why do some fish do it younger than others? Learning from experiments

09:40            M.T. Spedicato, P. Carbonara, and G. Lembo
                    Life history traits of the common pandora (Pagellus erythrinus) interpreted using information
                    from aquaculture experiments

10:00            Ove T. Skilbrei and Vidar Wennevik
                    A comparative study of the performance of family groups of Atlantic salmon reared in tanks
                    and released in a river

10:20            COFFEE/TEA

11:00            Synthesis

                    Kai Lorenzen, Malcolm Beveridge and Marc Mangel
                    Wild and farmed fish: domestication, comparative biology, and interactions

11:45            Closing remarks

12:00            LUNCH

Poster presentations

Ricardo Almuly, Yael Poleg-Danin, Yechezkel Kashi, Sergei Gorshkov, Galina Gorshkova, Anna Dyman,
Benzion Cavari, Boris Rapoport, Morris Soller and Bruria Funkenstein
Variable number of tandem repeats in the growth hormone gene of Sparus aurata: association
with growth and effect on gene transcription            

Rosa Maria Araguas Sola, N. Sanz and J.L. García-Marín 
Break of brown trout evolutionary history due to hybridization between nature and culture fish

Kathleen Beyer
Escapees of potentially invasive fishes from an ornamental aquaculture facility: the case of
topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva

Miroslav Ciesla, Jerzy Śliwiński, Piotr Konieczny and Robert Lityński
Changes of nase (Chondrostoma nasus L.) occurance in the Wislok River, Southern Poland,
after stocking with pond reared juveniles

Miroslav Ciesla Ryszard Wojda, Jerzy Śliwiński and Zbigniew Kaczkowski
Influence of rearing method on ide (Leuciscus idus L.) juvenile survival under pike and
pikeperch predation

Alexis Conides, Branko Glamuzina and Costas Papaconstantinou
Laboratory simulation of the effectsof environmental salinity on wild-caught juveniles of
European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)

Matthieu Duchemin, C. Audet and Y. Lambert
Photoperiod and temperature effects on gametogenesis in winter flounder,
Pseudopleuronectes americanus

W.L. Gale, M.S. Hill and G.B Zydlewski
Physiological and behavioural differences of hatchery and wild-reared steelhead
(Oncorhynchus mykiss) smolts of the same genetic origin

Elena Galich and Mikhail S. Chebanov
Comparative evaluation of sturgeon larvae and juvenils reared under control of seasonal
propogation of the wild and domestic breeders

Sophie Hubert, A.M. O'Keeffe, Deirdre Cotter, N.P. Wilkins and M.T. Cairns
Gene expression patterns in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): gene expression during osmoregulation in intestine tissue 

Enrico Ingle and Lorenzo Venzi
Feasibility of a project for active restocking of the sea adjacent the salt pans of Tarquinia, Italy

Asiful Islam, O.V. Gorshkov, V.M. Chernov and V.A. Kuznetsov
DNA polymorphism of percidae population structure in the Kuibyshev water reservoir
of Russia

Zbigniev Kaczkowski and Mirosław Cieśla
State and role of active conservation of barbel (Barbus barbus) in Poland

Zbigniev Kaczkowski and Mirosław Cieśla
The importance of aquaculture to nase (Chondrostoma nasus) conservation in Poland

Ewa Kulczykowska, Ewa Sokołowska, Magdalena Gozdowska and Hanna Kalamarz Hanna
Disruption of melatonin rhythm in wild and farmed fish: a role of prolonged thyroxine
administration and calcium depletion

Valeria Micale Lucrezia Genovese and Giulia Maricchiolo
Gonadal maturation in the blackspot sea bream Pagellus bogaraveo: a comparison
between a farmed and a wild broodstock

Valeria Micale, Manuela Garaffo, Lucrezia Genovese, Maria Teresa Spedicato and Ugo Muglia
The ontogeny of the alimentary tract of larval pandora, Pagellus erythrinus L.

Marie-Helene Omnes, S. Recek, H. Barone, H. Le Delliou,  A. Schmitz, A. Mutelet, M. Suquet
and J.H. Robin
Influence of dry diets on reproductive performance and egg lipid composition during
the first spawning season of captive pollack

J.M. Pujolar, G.E. Maes and F.A.M. Volckaert
Distribution of genetic variation in farmed and natural stocks of the European eel

Anthea M Rowlerson, Paula Silva, E Rocha, M Olmedo and L M P Valente
Muscle development in cultured blackspot seabream Pagellus bogaraveo: preliminary
histochemical and immunohistochemical data on the fibre types

Paula Silva, C. A. P. Andrade, V. M. F. A. Timóteo, E. Rocha and L. M. P. Valente
Influence of dietary protein level on growth performance and body composition of juvenile
seabream, Pagellus bogaraveo (Brunnich, 1768)

Ettore Varicchio, T. Rubino, S. Paino, T. Di Lascio, O. Paciello and M. Langella
The callpastatin/calpain system in trout Salmo trutta muscle

Ivan A. Wang, William W. Smoker, Sara E. Gilk, Dion S. Oxman and Anthony  J. Gharrett
Hatching time as an indicator of environmental incompatibility and outbreeding depression
in intraspecific salmon hybrids

NB:  All posters should be 0.85m x 0.85m to fit onto the display boards.  They will be attached by
Velcro which we will provide.