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Our aim is to serve a diverse membership, with representatives from regulatory bodies, NGO's, scientists, fishery managers, educators and the private sector. Together, this membership will directly support, promote, influence and facilitate relevant initiatives as an independent body. Activities ongoing, or to be developed or promoted by SCRFA, range from documentation of aggregation status and history, synopses and development of methods suitable for documenting, assessing and monitoring aggregations and aggregating species, conservation and management policy, biological information, and education and awareness-raising. Meetings of SCRFA have been held during several international symposia (Ninth International Coral Reef Symposium in Bali, Indonesia; Sixth Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Durban, South Africa; Gulf and Caribbean Fishery Institute in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands among others). SCRFA meetings were also held at the Tenth International Coral Reef Symposium, Japan, June 2004 and Fourth World Fisheries Congress, Vancouver, May 2004 and are planned for the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Taiwan in 2005. Our work has been funded by the Packard Foundation with support from the Department of Ecology & Biodiversity. If you are interested in participating in SCRFA, or learning more about the Society, please contact either Director: Dr. Yvonne Sadovy - scrfa@hkucc.hku.hk , or |
Through its work, the Society for the Conservation of Reef Fish Aggregations strives to promote and facilitate the international conservation and management of reef fish spawning aggregations.
