19 - 23 August 2024 | Mpekweni Beach Resort, Eastern Cape | Fish, Fishers and the Future
Grahamstown, South Africa
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Having studied various aspects of multiple #SouthernAfrica marine #linefish species over the past (almost) 40 years, he has contributed significantly to what we currently know about these species. Colin will cover some monitoring work from the De Hoop #MPA over the past 40 years!
Learning more about the ecology of a #linefish species is only as good as knowledge of its biology (i.e. diet, reproduction, age, growth).
#6samls has 6 #SouthernAfrica life history talks lined up, focusing on species such as west coast steenbras, dusky kob & silver kob 🐟
32 days until #6samls
We have two dedicated fish movement sessions covering talks on species such as iconic giant kingfish, to smaller mullet and blacktail, to commercially important smoothhound sharks!
#marinescience #SouthernAfrica #Linefish
📷@PontaSharks
33 days until #6samls🐟
Things are slowly coming together, and what a jam-packed programme we have! With at least 60 talks spread across 12 sessions, we'll be getting some insight into the #linefish research currently being conducted in #SouthernAfrica
📷@chantel3474
34 days to #6samls
Researchers are now able to study the presence of animals in a region based purely on DNA found in their environments, to generating entire genomes of individual species! To this end, we have 7 #linefish genetics talks to look forward to.
#marinescience
37 days to #6samls
The climate is changing, which is why it’s important to understand how #linefish abundance, movements + behaviour may change. With 10 talks in our #climatechange theme, we can’t help but feel that our researchers and students are on it!
📷@SAFER_Lab
We have some fisher engagement talks on our #6samls programme, including celebrating 40 incredible years of the @saambr ORI Cooperative Fish Tagging Project, a #citizenscience project that is among the top ranked volunteer programmes around the🌍, with >386 000 tag releases!
It’s a no-brainer that the focus of the #SouthAfrican #marinescience #linefish symposium is linefish research (#duh). But we also have several overarching themes, including:
Angler engagement
Catch & release
#climatechange
#Fisheries
#Genetics
Life history
Monitoring & MPAs
Etc.
41 days until the #6samls 🎣
Researchers + students from 14 different organisations will be giving >50 presentations, with talks ranging from movement studies, to fisheries, to fisher engagement, and so much more!
#marinescience #SouthAfrica
📷 @2OceansAquarium + @SharkSpotters
44 days to until the 6th Southern African Marine #Linefish Symposium starts!
Here, researchers, students, managers + science communicators from southern Africa share results + work together to identify research gaps to help with management 🎣
#6samls #marinescience
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Read more on how researchers who attended the 5th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium (@5Samls) are working to address the effects that the ever-increasing global human population is having on the planet’s resources, ecosystems and climate:
saiab.ac.za/features/linefis…
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Inspirational to see the fantastic science leading the management of our line fisheries & where we need to focus going forward. Thank you to all organising & involved!
#marinebiology #linefish #SAMLS2019 #fishsci #teamfish
THANK YOU to the organising committee and hosts, @Rhodes_Uni, @NRF_SAIAB
and @NRF_News, sponsors, delegates and keynote speakers for supporting this conference & by extension, growth in the understanding & management of #linefishes around southern Africa.👏👏
#SAMLS2019 #linefish
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Absolute privelege to take part in such a great symposium with so many great people. I can confidently say that Southern Africa's linefish are in great hands with the quantity and quality of research taking place behind the scenes! #southafrica #linefish #marinescience
THANK YOU to the organising committee and hosts, @Rhodes_Uni, @NRF_SAIAB
and @NRF_News, sponsors, delegates and keynote speakers for supporting this conference & by extension, growth in the understanding & management of #linefishes around southern Africa.👏👏
#SAMLS2019 #linefish
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Such a privilege to present this keynote with Bruce at #samls2019. So many happy memories from the Eastern Cape here. Thank you to everyone, @SAFER_Lab team @wpotts18 and @childs_amber1 for a great symposium. One of the best!!
SA's government has recently approved 20 new MPAs. To start us off, Bruce and Judy Mann present on 'South Africa's coastal MPAs, haven for Linefish but are our fishermen supportive?'
@saambr #SAMLS2019 #linefish #teamfish
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Thank you to all who made the @5Samls an invaluable experience. Well done to our researchers and students on giving excellent presentations. We look forward in supporting growth in the understanding and management of linefishes around southern Africa. #SAMLS2019 #linefish
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Thank-you for an inspiring symposium filled with incredible science, people and opportunities to positively influence our valuable line fish into the future @SANParks @NRF_SAIAB @SAEON_GSN – at South Africa
THANK YOU to the organising committee and hosts, @Rhodes_Uni, @NRF_SAIAB
and @NRF_News, sponsors, delegates and keynote speakers for supporting this conference & by extension, growth in the understanding & management of #linefishes around southern Africa.👏👏
#SAMLS2019 #linefish
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Thanks to all who made @5Samls an invaluable experience! Such a privilege to meet the top dogs in the Linefish community! Now it's time to head back to Namibia for one last month of experiments. @SAFER_Lab @MarineBio_Muzza @alexwinkrsa #KobHybridProject #SAMLS2019 – at Port Alfred, South Africa