PAST SYMPOSIA

The ‘First International Symposium on GIS in Fishery Science’ was held in Seattle, Washington, USA in 1999. It was co-organized by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the ‘Fishery GIS Research Group (Saitama, Japan)’ (*) and was quite successful, with 230 presentations (131 orals, 89 posters and 10 GIS software demonstrations).

 (*) Its name has been changed to ‘Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group’ in 2002 to cover subjects also in the aquatic sciences.

The Second Symposium was held at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, U.K. in 2002, and was co-organized by the Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group and Dr Geoff Meaden (keynote speaker of the First Symposium), from the Fisheries GIS Unit, Department of Geography, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK. It was also successful, with 96 presentations (67 orals, 23 posters and 6 GIS system related demonstrations).

The Third Symposium took place in Asia at the Shanghai Fisheries University in China in 2005 and it was co-organized by the Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group and Professor/Dean LiuXiong Xu, Department of Marine Fisheries Sciences and Technologies, Shanghai Fisheries University. It was fruitful with many Asian participants and with 70 presentations (47 orals, 15 posters and 8 GIS system related demonstrations).

Check out the Proceedings of Past Symposia