The conference focuses identifying challenges for inland fisheries and associated with climate change organized around themes of river fisheries, lake fisheries and aquaculture. We are looking for description of  expected impact as well as potential solutions to the problem.

Sunday, September 3rd,2017

16:00 - 18:00	Participants registration
19:00 - 21:00	Ice Breaker BBQ

Monday September  4th, 2017

7:00 - 9:00	Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:15	Conference Opening - EIFAAC representatives
9:15 - 9:30	Welcome adress Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation
9:30 - 10:00	Keynote address
	Robert M. Hughes	Climate Change Effects on Inland Fisheries: International Perspectives

Session 1

10:00 - 10:20	Ian Cowx	Decoupling the impacts of societal development and climate change on fisheries in the lower Mekong Basin
10:20 - 10:40	Konrad Górski	The resilience of  commercial fisheries in large temperate and subtropical floodplain rivers to climate change: examples from the Volga (Russia) and Paraná (Argentina) rivers
10:40 - 11:00	Melcher Andreas H.	Towards challenges for sustainable fisheries management and beyond in Burkina Faso, West Africa
11:00 - 11:20	Teppo Vehanen	The effects of climate change on fisheries in Finland
11:20 - 11:40	Coffee break
11:40 - 12:00	Fiona Kelly	Potential climate change impacts on Arctic char Salvelinus alpinus L. In Ireland
12:00 - 12:20	Marek Trella	Impact of climate change on the inland fisheries economy
12:20 - 12:40	Outi Heikinheimo	Stock dynamics of coastal Baltic Sea pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) under climate change
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:30	Keynote address
	James E. McKenna	The Laurentian Great Lakes: a case study in ecological disturbance and climate change

Session 2

14:30 - 14:50	Piotr Parasiewicz	Impact  of changes in hydrological regime on fish habitat availability
14:50 - 15:10	Katarzyna Suska	Hydromorphological boundary conditions of climate change  of impact in inland fisheries in rivers
15:10 - 15:30	Joanna O’Keeffe	Index-based analysis of climate change impact on streamflow conditions relevant for fish
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20	Gianandrea La Porta	Physical habitat requirements of Salmo cettii in Central Apennines, Italy
16:20 - 16:40	Fiona Kelly	The thermal buffering capacity of three brown trout streams in a warming climate
16:40 - 17:00	José M. Santiago	Climate change effects on the sessile stages of brown trout
17:00 - 17:20	Fiona Kelly	Survival of the fittest - Climate change and species interactions in Ireland (Brown trout and pike)
17:20 - 17:40	Jan Kubecka	Brief outline of long-term ecological research into water reservoirs in the Czech Republic

Poster session

18:00 - 19:00	Poster Session
19:00 - 21:00	Dinner on your own

Tuesday September 5th, 2017

7:00 - 8:30	Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00	Keynote address
	J Angus Webb	Creating a knowledge base is only the start: how can we bring together diverse sources of information to predict the impacts of climate change on inland fisheries?

Session 3

9:00 - 9:20	Jacek Sadowski	Central European perspective on the climate change through CERES project
9:20 - 9:40	Gergő Gyalog	Impact of Climate Change on water balance of Hungarian contour  fishponds
9:40 - 10:00	Raul Primicerio	Climate change impact on resilience and production of harvested lake fish in Europe
10:00 - 10:20	Coffee break
10:20 - 10:40	Aslak Smalås	Effects of climate warming and size-selective fisheries on lake fish populations at high latitudes
10:40 - 11:00	Matteo Zucchetta	Uncertainty in the projection of the whitefish Coregonus lavaretus in Lake Garda (Northern Italy): implication for management
11:00 - 11:20	Allan T. Souza	Faster growth patterns in predatory fish triggered by environmental changes
11:20 - 11:40	Amaj Rahimi Midani	Analyzing the pikeperch collapse in Lipno Reservoir by understanding the process of artificial stocking of carp and with the help of surplus production models
11:40 - 12:00	Zbigniew Kaczkowski	Long-term changes of fish assemblages and anglers catch composition accompanied by warming climate
12:00 - 12:30	Representative of EU contact Point
	Agnieszka Murzec-Wojnar	Funding opportunities in H2020 framework
12:45 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:30	Keynote address
	Ian Cowx	Can inland fisheries adapt to climate change: a question of understanding vulnerability and building resilience (or much more)?
14:30 - 15:00	Keynote address
	Craig Paukert	Managing Fish and Fisheries in a Changing Climate: Lessons from North America
15:00 - 15:20	Mikołaj Adamczyk	Fish protection facilities for downstream barriers passage and water intakes
15:20 - 15:40	Andrey Petrovich Pedchenko	The impact of climate changes on freshwater fisheries in great lakes of the European part of Russia
15:40 - 16:00	Manu Sapkota	Potential impacts of projected climate change relevant to inland fisheries in Nepal
16:00 - 17:00	Discussion forum
	Building a team for a joint EU finded research project
	White paper preparation
17:00 - 17:30	Closing ceremony
19:00 - 2:00	Conference dinner

Wednesday, September  6th, 2017

7:00 - 9:00	Breakfast
9:30 - 13:00	Excursion A - Kanał Elbląski
7:00 - 23:00	Excursion B - Excursion Włocławek Dam and Toruń

 

Please notice that for each presentation we plan to book 15 minutes and 5 minutes to discussion.

 

Keynotes

Dr. James  McKenna

Dr. Bob Hughes

Dr. Angus Webb

Dr. Craig Paukert

Prof. Dr. Ian Cowx