The major session themes of the 2005 Conference are:

1. Issues in Great Lakes Water Quality and Fisheries (CCFFR/SCL)
2. Genetic approaches to conservation and management (CCFFR)
3. Fisheries policy and the protection of native fishes (CCFFR)
4. Aquatic species at risk research (CCFFR)
5. Adaptive management of aquatic resources (CCFFR)
6. Food webs and fisheries (CCFFR)
7. Climate change, fisheries and aquatic resources (CCFFR)
8. Contaminants and bioenergetics in aquatic ecosystems (CCFFR)
9. Aquatic Invasive Species (Joint SCL/CCFFR)
   

Unless specifically identified, for all CCFFR themes, both freshwater and marine presentations are encouraged.

There will also be the annual invited Annual Stevenson Lecture. This Year's recipient is Dr. Peter S. Ross, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Sidney, British Columbia

Papers addressing the major themes are encouraged, although submission on other themes related to fisheries and aquatic habitat biology are also welcome, and where relevant will be placed into concurrent Contributed Papers sessions.

The DEADLINE for abstracts is November 8, 2004.

Graduate students may apply to the Clemens-Rigler Travel Fund. Applications are to be submitted to Rob Mackereth (rob.mackereth@mnr.gov.on.ca) by November 8, 2004.

ELECTRONIC abstracts:
Abstracts in electronic form must be submitted by email to the Programme Chair, Joe Rasmussen (CCFFR@uleth.ca) by November 8, 2004 (at the latest).

Please follow these guidelines carefully to facilitate the work of the Programme Committee and to ensure a final programme of high quality.

• Email an MSWord (*.doc) version of your abstract (do NOT send ASCII text, WordPerfect, PDF's or other word processing formats).
• Abstracts should not exceed 250 words and must be single spaced. Use 12 pt Times Roman font. Do not use ANY bold fonts and titles should be in Title Case. Ensure you include an email address for the author who intends to make the presentation
• Place an asterisk (*) after the name of the person presenting the paper and provide an email address.
• Indicate whether the presentation will be oral (O) or poster (P) after the title, if you are willing to present in either format use (OorP).
• Please indicate, on a separate line after the end of your abstract to which theme (1-8) your presentation is most closely related and if you are a graduate student (GS). If your presentation does not fit any of the session themes, please type "contributed paper". This line will not appear in the program.
• Use the following as a FORMATING GUIDE:

  
  PHENOTYPIC EXPRESSION OF LIFE HISTORY TRAITS IN TATTOINE RESIDENTS (OorP)
  Vader*, D. and L. Skywalker. Department of Bioengineering, Jedi University, Mos Eisely, Newfoundland (email:theforce@form1.ca)
  Intergenerational differences in phenotypic expression was higher in Tattoine residents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  Theme 3, (GS)

Hard copy of Abstract: CCFFR uses an entirely electronic process for developing the programme. Hard copy abstracts will NOT be accepted. In exceptional circumstances please contact the Programme Chair.

Power Point Presentations:

• Power Point is the preferred presentation format.
• The presentations need to be submitted in PowerPoint 2002' (or earlier version).
• Presentations will be uploaded to a computer prior to the start of individual sessions. Therefore, participants must provide the audio-visual assistant with a copy of their presentation on a CD at least 3 hours prior to the start of their session to ensure presentations are uploaded correctly.
• Projectors will be provided by chair members.
• If participants must use another presentation medium (e.g., overhead and 35mm slides), a limited number of projectors will be provided at the conference. Please notify the Programme Chair prior to December 16, 2003.

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