International Grayling Conference

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Conference Update - 8 July 2006

ANY LAST MINUTE ENQUIRIES
It may still be possible to make arrangements to attend the conference on a day basis. To check, please contact Roger Cullum-Kenyon +44 (0)1803 835 204, +44 (0)7836 288772 without delay.

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PROGRAMME

Wednesday 12 July
• 0900 - 0910 Welcome to conference: Robin Mulholland (Chairman, The Grayling Research Trust)

Session 1 (Chairmen John Brennand, Steve Rhodes)

• 0910 – 1000 Steven Weiss & Igor Knizhin (Austria and Russia) Worldwide Diversity of Grayling (Thymallus spp.): current state of knowledge and research challenges (Keynote paper)

• 1000 – 1030 Bernhard Gum, Riho Gross and Ralph Kühn (Germany and Estonia) Conservation and management units of European grayling (Thymallus thymallus): synthesis of phylogeographic and population genetic data.

• 1030 – 1100 Morning Coffee

• 1100 – 1130 Stanislaw Cios (Poland). Historical accounts of grayling in Poland, 14th-19th centuries.

• 1130 – 1200 Ronald Campbell (UK) The Grayling of the Tweed: History, Distribution, Biology and Angling Exploitation.

• 1200 – 1330 Lunch

Session 2 (Chairman, Robin Mulholland)

• 1330 – 1420 Nick Hughes (USA - Alaska) Migration, distribution, life-history, and population dynamics of Arctic grayling in Alaska: a selective review of observed patterns and underlying ecological processes (Keynote paper)

• 1420 – 1450 Anton Ibbotson (UK). A ten year study of an abstracted chalk river grayling population.

• 1450 – 1520 Martyn C. Lucas and Damian H. Bubb (UK). Variation in patterns of spatial behaviour and habitat use in neighbouring river reaches by European grayling.

• 15.20 – 15.50 Afternoon Tea

• 1550 – 1620 Alfred L Decicco, Randy J Brown, Andrew D Gryska (Alaska) Direct validation of annual growth increments on sectioned otoliths from adult Alaskan Arctic grayling and a comparison of otolith and scale age.

• 1620 – 1650 Poster Session

• 19.30–22.30 Conference Dinner

Thursday 13 July

Session 3 (Chairmen, provisionally Ross Gardiner and Rich Cove)

• 0900 - 0950 Henri Persat, Jean-Paul Mallet and Sandrine Charles-Bajard (France) Ecology, population dynamics, and sensitivity of the European grayling in natural and disturbed environments (Keynote paper).

• 0950 – 1020 Bill Riley / Mike Pawson (UK) Habitat preference of grayling, Thymallus thymallus, in chalk streams, and the influence of riparian shading.

• 1020 – 1050 Morning Coffee

• 1050 – 1120 Andrew D Gryska, Brian D Taras and Klaus G Wuttig (Alaska) Identifying and estimating bias due to combined immigration and emigration in closed system stock assessments of Arctic grayling in Alaskan rivers.

• 1120 – 1150 Mikael Carlstein (Sweden). Effects of rearing technique and fish size on post-stocking feeding, growth and survival of European grayling, Thymallus thymallus (L.)

• 1150 – 1220 Les Jervis (UK). Grayling as a salmonid bioindicator species of environmental stress.

• 1200 – 1330 Lunch

Session 4 (Chairman, Dafydd Evans)

• 1330 – 1400 Alan Starkie (UK). The Water Framework Directive – Good News for Grayling across Europe?

• 1400 – 1430 Gentili G., Puzzi C.M., Romanò A., Trasforini S., Ippoliti A. and Di Biase N. (Italy). Status, ecology and activities of management of the grayling populations in North Italy.

• 1430 – 1515 Conclusions, and general discussion on the needs for future research.

• 15.30 – 16.00 Afternoon Tea

The presenting authors are indicated in bold. Abstracts of the various presentations will be available at the conference.

Poster papers

Bernhard Gum, Riho Gross and Ralph Kühn (Germany and Estonia) – poster paper to complement their oral presentation

Mikael Carlstein, Thomas Axenrot, Björn Berquist & Erik Degerman (Sweden) Developments in electrofishing and hydro-acoustic techniques from boat for studies of fish in large Swedish rivers.

Mikael Carlstein and Anders Bruks (Sweden). Abundance estimates of European grayling (Thymallus thymallus L.) in two regulated boreal rivers in Sweden.

Rich Cove (UK). A logbook scheme for recording grayling catch and effort information.

Stanislaw Cios (Poland). Exhibition of early grayling (and some other early angling) postcards.

Bridget Peacock (UK). The Riverfly Partnership. Not able to attend herself.

Bridget Peacock (UK). River Invertebrate Monitoring by Anglers. Not able to attend herself.

There will also be some photographs taken by Mikael Carlstein and Anders Bruks and their colleagues on display and we may have space for other contributions.

We may still have space to display other posters or other items of interest, but please discuss with us first.

For further information email your enquiry by 12.00hrs Monday 10 July to:-

cullumkenyon@btopenworld.com