The Virome Associated with Ballast Waters in the Great Lakes
Joan Rose will speak this week at the FAO Global Conference on Inland Fisheries
As global attention has become increasingly focused on the depletion of many marine fisheries, freshwater fisheries around the world are facing their own challenges. Inland fisheries are critical food resource, especially in much of the developing world, yet agricultural, water management, and investment policies are often at odds with maintaining their long-term sustainability. A lack of reliable data and a local, rather than global approach, to inland fisheries issues has hampered international monitoring and conservation programs.
The conference will include commercial, subsistence, aquaculture, and recreational fisheries, as well as the broad context of ecosystem services provided by inland aquatic systems. The inland fisheries conference is sponsored by Michigan State University and will be held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). (from inlandfisheries.org)
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