Concluding Remarks on the Halifax Diadromy Symposium

摘要

The Halifax symposium of 2007 was viewed as an opportunity to review progress in our understanding of the place of diadromy in fish and fisheries approximately 20 years after the 1986 meeting in Boston, also sponsored by the American Fisheries Society, and to address challenges for the future. Clearly, diadromous fishes, despite their relatively small number, are of profound importance across a wide range of values from economic to conservation, and this symposium, and others before it, such as at Hilo, Hawai'i and Bordeaux, France in 2005, reflect that importance. The Halifax symposium was international, and although scientists attending from the United States and Canada were most abundant, there were people from, or discussing the fish species of,Albania, Argentina, Asia (by an Australian), Bangladesh, Chile, France, Iraq, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Russia, and Sweden. Some of the larger contingents from outside North America were from New Zealand and Japan, perhaps a reflection of the importance of diadromy to fish ecology and fisheries in these countries. Somewhat ironically, it was those from New Zealand and Japan who came the furthest to attend the Halifax meeting.