MO06 Sustainability Symposium

[PeterIMA]

Here is the agenda for the Sustainability Symposium that will be held at the Marine Ornamentals 06 (MO06) Conference in Las Vegas. The conference runs from 14-16 February, 2006. The Symposium will be held on February 15th. Everyone is invited to attend. Early registration is $295 until January 20th.

Peter Rubec
Symposium Moderator

February 15, 2006
Marine Ornamentals 06 Conference Agenda For Symposium:
What Steps Are Necessary To Attain Sustainability In The Marine Aquarium Trade?

10:30 – 12:30 Collecting and Transportation Issues for Sustainability

10:30 TRAINING NET COLLECTORS MEANS ORGANIZING NET COLLECTORS Arsonetri*, Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto, and Ferdinand P. Cruz

10:45 TRAINING MARINE FISH COLLECTORS AS IF RESULTS MATTERED Steve Robinson*

11:00 SHIPPING-RELATED MORTALITY IN MARINE ORNAMENTAL FISH: RESULTS OF A MULTI-YEAR DIAGNOSTIC SURVEY Jerry Heidel*, Timothy Miller-Morgan, John Machian, Brad Remmer, Robert Hildreth, and James Bennett

11:15 MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY RESULTING FROM THE COLLECTION, HOLDING, SHIPPING, AND CULTURE OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES: A CONTINUING HOTBED OF BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC ORGANISM DEATH FACTORS Eric Borneman*

11:30 SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS OF THE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE: A CASE STUDY ON NET COLLECTION AND IMPROVED FISH HANDLING AND HOLDING PRACTICES Tomas M. Cabagay*, Ferdinand Cruz, and Peter Rubec

11:45 ACTIONS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE FROM A LOCAL RETAILER’S POINT OF VEIW Burton Patrick*

12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION

12:15 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH AUDIENCE

12:30 BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:00 to 4:30 Conservation Issues

2:00 A NEW PARADIGM IS NEEDED TO ADDRESS UNSUSTAINABLE COLLECTION OF ORNAMENTAL CORAL REEF SPECIES Andrew Bruckner*

2:15 A PACIFIC REGIONAL DATABASE FOR THE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE Being Yeeting*

2:30 CONSUMER PERSPECTIVES ON THE WEB OF CAUSALITY WITHIN THE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE Breck A McCollum* and Patrick J. Christie


2:45 ASSESSING CORAL REEF STATUS AND MANAGEMENT MEASURES THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO ATTAIN SUSTAINABILITY Peter J. Rubec* and Fedinand P. Cruz

3:00 BREAK

3:15 COASTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT WORKS Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto*, Ferdinand Cruz, and Arsonetri

3:30 “COMMUNITY, BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT, AND SCIENCE (CBUGS)”, PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE MARINE ORNAMENTALS INDUSTRY Ferdinand P. Cruz, Tomas Cabagay, Ralph Turingan, Alberto Malleri, Daan Wolferen, Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto

3:45 PANEL DISCUSSION

4:00 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH AUDIENCE

 

[Mike King]

Nice line up Peter wish I could be there this year, just too many meetings going on here that week and no funds for travel ATM so it looks like this will be the first MO I miss.

If you could, please obtain copies of the papers and a transcript of the discussions for those who can't make it there. (The topics to be covered in this Sustainability Symposium are just too important to have to sit and wait for any publication that may evolve from this MO)

Mike King

 

[naesco]

Hi Dr. Rubec

I will try to make it with my sign of course.

Wayne

 

[spawner]

Peter,

Great to see a schedule, I hope it doesn't over lap with culture talks.


Mike,

What are you like 5,000 miles away or somethign

andy

 

[PeterIMA]

There are no concurrent sessions at MO06, so there should not be overlap within the MO06 Conference. Hence, there will not be a conflict with a concurrent culture session at the MO06 Conference.

There will be other sessions associated with the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) Conference, that MO06 registrants can also attend.

Peter

 

[PeterIMA]

To Mike King, I am requesting papers from all of the Symposium participants and will be happy to forward copies to you when they are finished (which may be after the conference).

Peter

 

[spawner]

Sure will be nice seeing Ferdinand again. I hope the farm things is working out.

 

[PeterIMA]

Yes, The farm and "CBUGS" are doing well and going into full production. Come hear the talks by Ferdinand, by Dr. Ralph Turingan, and those by his graduate students.

Peter

 

[clarionreef]

If it is true that coral reefs are in trouble and that the international marine ornamental trade is complicit, then it must also be true that acting appropriately and quickly to reform this situation is imperative.

For many years, NGOs have had a love-hate relationship with this industry. They blame it for destructive and non-sustainable practices and then seek funds to research it and stab at field trainings that produce year after year results so small that no one in a business culture could take seriously.
If there is indeed a crisis on the reefs or at least a serious problem...why isn't it then taken serious enough then to do it right?
Why is an approach that works at a pace slower then global warming acceptable?

How is it an alarming situation when writing grant proposals....and yet then a slow motion, 10 year plan when funding is given?
How is it that research, reef-checking and surveys are held up as priorty activity when insinuating ourselves into the issue...then we relax as they bounce off the expected cultural roadblocks, political agendas and bureaucratic nonsense that takes years and years to overcome?
What happened to the urgency?
Our insistance on a paper-driven, inflexible, elitist American agenda for converting a hundred villages in Indonesia and the Philippines to sustainable methods has actually kept it from happening...and kept destructive fishing alive longer.
Larding the proposed certification remedies with complicated requisites, ridiculous paperwork and career building pork to service our selves has won few allies and many enemies.
Oh we still pay homage to the beginners phases ie. the politically correct and en vogue mission statements but beyond that the supporters are becoming fewer and fewer for flawed, foriegn approaches from the frozen food fish industry..
Tropical fishes from a hundred or so villages in S.E. Asia are not nearly so simple a product to certify as frozen seafood or tuna from western world factory ships.
Packard people thought it would be...they were wrong.
And another 10 years to get on the right track has been lost.
It would appear that the eco-emergencies seem to vanish after funds are disbursed.
Steve

 

[Jaime Baquero]

What would happen if in the USA the federal government or the state governments relied on NGOs to tackle a fisheries problem within its or their jurisdictions?

During the years (over 20 years) I have seen many isolated efforts trying to find solutions to the use of cyanide when collecting ornamental fish for the marine aquarium industry. Those isolated efforts, from NGOs, have not provided the results that the "inactive industry" has been expecting.

The Philippines has been the country where more resources have been put in place to tackle the problem. I do agree, too much money for little results. However, there are important aspects to consider; 1) The Filipino's "pace" to "work" 2) corruption 3) lack of willingness and commitment from the filipino central government to get "really involve" in the process of change 4) fisherfolk's poverty (things could change only if collectors get a fair piece of the cake, instead of the morsels given by the industry)

I admire Peter's efforts to organize the Sustainability Symposium during MO 06. However, I see that, once again, almost all the "speakers" are individuals representing NGOs. No one from the Philippines or Indonesian government is attending to talk about the commitment and willingness of their governments,...after all is a problem that is affecting the natural resources of those countries.

Is there a representative of the Filipino scientific community attending to MO 06? Would be good to know what is their position regarding the matter.

 

[Fish_dave]

I tried to register for the Marine Ornamentals conference and they wanted 500.00 something to register. If I clicked that I was a member of one of the listed organizations (which I am not) it lowered the price to 395.00.

Does anyone on this board have a link to register at the reduced 295.00 rate that Peter quotes above ? If so can you please post the link here.

Thanks,

Dave

 

[PeterIMA]

You need to register by either email or by fax to the conference organizers, since the MO06 web registration is no longer functioning (you can register for the WAS Conference which covers you for both, but as Fish_dave indicated it may cost more). I will post the information.

 

[PeterIMA]

You can contact John Cooksey the Confernce Manager who is taking registrations by sending him an email at: [email protected].

The telephone number 1-760-432-4270.

I am attaching the MO06 Conference Registration Form (in PDF format).
Print a copy, and fill in the form. Then fax the registration form to the following fax number: 1-760-432-4275. You will need to provide a credit card number to pay early registration (until January 20th).

Otherwise, mail in the form and a cheque for $295 to the following. address:
PS-I assume that students can register for US $105 and that spouse registration rate is $180 until January 20th.


Marine Ornamentals 2006
Conference Manager
2423 Fallbrook Place
Escondido, CA 92027
USA

 

[PeterIMA]

Here is the MO06 Registation form. Early registration rates were extended to January 20, 2006.

Peter Rubec

 

[clarionreef]

No one from the Philippines or Indonesian government is attending to talk about the commitment and willingness of their governments,...

They may have an issue with the commitment and willingness part. Still, you find Filipinos fisheries folks at many conferences all over the world. [They still think their jobs are in marketing and expansion of ports, terminals, infrastructure to get the last fish they can.]
Foreign, inexperienced NGOs may well have made fisheries departments lazy. They delegated the search for solutions to foreigners [ us] who had no idea how to proceed except for notions from our countries.
When Philippine leadership let MAC do it....they really hurt their own countries interests badly.
How much coral reef could've been spared in the last 7 years that wasn't?


Steve

 

[PeterIMA]

Here are two other presentations that will be given on February 15th at the MO06 Conference in Las Vegas that pertain to sustainablity in the marine aquarium trade.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
8:30 – 4:30 Room 101

PLENARY SESSION

Moderator: Leonard Young

8:30 Gayatri Reksodihardjo-Lilley
A SUSTAINABLE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE: WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY?

9:15 John Brandt
ISSUES OF SUSTAINABILITY, REFORM AND REGULATION OF THE MARINE AQUARIUM INDUSTRY AND HOBBY

 

[PeterIMA]

There have been some last minute changes to the MO06 Agenda. Dr. Ralph Turingan has been moved to the Sustainablility Symposium. See the agenda for the MO06 Conference below.

Peter Rubec



MARINE ORNAMENTALS 2006
SESSIONS

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
9:00 – 5:30 Room 101

PLENARY
9:00 Opening Remarks
Program Committee and Conference Committee

9:30 Svein A. Fosså
THE SUITABLE SPECIES CONCEPT: WHAT MAKES A WILD SPECIES A SUITABLE AQUARIUM ANIMAL

10:30 BREAK

INVERTEBRATE CULTURE

Moderator: John S. Corbin
11:30 Ofer Almalem
CULTIVATION OF CORALS IN A SYNTHETIC OCEAN WATER SYSTEM -

11:45 Junda Lin, Dong Zhang, and Andrew L. Rhyne
REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY AND LARVICULTURE OF Lysmata SHRIMP

12:00 Bradford D. Bourque, Harold F. Pomeroy, and Matthew R. Palmtag
MARINE ORNAMENTAL AQUACULTURE RESEARCH AT ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: AN ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY FUNDED BY THE RHODE ISLAND AQUACULTURE INITIATIVE TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL BOTTLENECKS TO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

12:15 Richard Xie
HAWAII MARINE ORNAMENTAL INDUSTRY AND ITS TRENDS

12:30 Andrew L. Rhyne and Junda Lin
FACTORS EFFECTING SURVIVAL IN THE EARLY ZOEAL STAGES OF THE SCARLET CLEANER SHRIMP Lysmata amboinensis (Caridea: Hippolytidae)

12:45 Ricardo Calado, Andrew L. Rhyne2
COMMERCIAL SCALE CULTURE OF Lysmata LARVAE: NEW APPROACHES FOR OLD PROBLEMS

1:00 LUNCH

HEALTH ISSUES

Moderator: John Brandt
2:00 B. Denise Petty
MYCOBACTERIOSIS IN MARINE FISHES

2:15 Kathleen Hartman
BIOSECURITY CONSIDERATIONS FOR MARINE ORNAMENTALS

2:30 Roy P.E. Yanong
AQUATIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN RECIRCULATING SYSTEMS

2:45 Ruth Francis-Floyd
LATERAL LINE DISEASE MANAGEMENT IN CAPTIVE MARINE SPECIES

3:00 Chatham Callan
THE EFFECT OF COPPER EXPOSURE ON REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE AND EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORCHID DOTTYBACK Pseudochromis fridmani.

3:15 Ralph G. Turingan, R. LeRoy Creswell and Kevin Gaines
DEVELOPING IMPROVED HATCHERY TECHNOLOGY FOR MARINE ORNAMENTAL FISH USING STAGE-SPECIFIC FEEDING MANAGEMENT REGIMES

3:30 BREAK

PLENARY SESSION

Moderator: Clyde Tamaru
4:00 Sara Peck
HOW CAN THE INDUSTRY SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANS? ALL MARINE ORNAMENTAL INDUSTRY PARTNERS MUST BECOME ACTIVELY INVOLVED.

4:45 William Walsh
EFFECTIVENESS OF A MARINE PROTECTED AREA NETWORK TO MANAGE THE WEST HAWAI’I AQUARIUM FISHERY


WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
8:30 – 4:30 Room 101

PLENARY SESSION

Moderator: Leonard Young

8:30 Gayatri Reksodihardjo-Lilley
A SUSTAINABLE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE: WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY?

9:15 John Brandt
ISSUES OF SUSTAINABILITY, REFORM AND REGULATION OF THE MARINE AQUARIUM INDUSTRY AND HOBBY

10:00 BREAK

SUSTAINABILITY SYMPOSIUM
Moderator: Peter Rubec

COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION ISSUES FOR SUSTAINABILITY
10:30 Arsonetri, Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto, and Ferdinand P. Cruz
TRAINING NET COLLECTORS MEANS ORGANIZING NET COLLECTORS


10:45 Steve Robinson
TRAINING MARINEFISH COLLECTORS AS IF RESULTS MATTERED

11:00 Jerry Heidel, Timothy Miller-Morgan, John Machian, Brad Remmer, Robert Hildreth, and James Bennett
SHIPPING-RELATED MORTALITY IN MARINE ORNAMENTAL FISH: RESULTS OF A MULTI-YEAR DIAGNOSTIC SURVEY

11:15 Eric Borneman
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY RESULTING FROM THE COLLECTION, HOLDING, SHIPPING AND CULTURE OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES: A CONTINUING HOTBED OF BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC ORGANISM DEATH FACTORS

11:30 Tomas M. Cabagay, Ferdinand Cruz and Peter Rubec
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS OF THE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE: A CASE STUDY ON NET COLLECTION AND IMPROVE FISH HANDLING AND HOLDING PRACTICES

11:45 Burton Patrick
ACTIONS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE FROM A LOCAL RETAILERS POINT OF VIEW


12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION

12:15 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS WITH AUDIENCE

12:30 LUNCH

CONSERVATION ISSUES

2:00 Andrew Bruckner
A NEW PARADIGM IS NEEDED TO ADDRESS UNSUSTAINABLE COLLECTION OF ORNAMENTAL CORAL REEF SPECIES

2:15 Being Yeeting
PACIFIC REGIONAL DATABASE FOR THE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE

2:30 Breck A. McCollum and Patrick J. Christie
CONSUMER PERSPECTIVES ON THE WEB OF CAUSALITY WITHIN THE MARINE AQUARIUM FISH TRADE

2:45 Peter J. Rubec, and Ferdinand Cruz
ASSESSING CORAL REEF STATUS AND MANAGEMENT MEASURES THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO ATTAIN SUSTAINABILITY

3:00 BREAK

3:15 Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto, Ferdinand Cruz, and Arsonetri
COASTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT WORKS

3:30 Ralph Turingan, Ferdinand Cruz, Tomas Cabagay, Alberto Mallari, Daan Wolferen
“COMMUNITY, BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT AND SCIENCE (CBUGS)”: THE ROLE OF AQUACULTURE IN SUSTAINING THE MARINE ORNAMENTALS INDUSTRY IN THE PHILIPPINES

3:45 Ferdinand Cruz, Tomas Cabagay, Dr. Ralph Turingan, Alberto Mallari, Daan Wolferen, Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto “COMMUNITY, BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT AND SCIENCE (CBUGS)”, PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE MARINE ORNAMENTALS INDUSTRY

4:00 PANEL DISCUSSION/QUESTIONS & ANSWERS WITH AUDIENCE

4:30 Marine Ornamentals Happy Hour – Top Of the Riviera


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
8:30 – 5:30 Room 101

PLENARY SESSION

Moderator: Craig Watson
8:30 Ray Davis
AQUARIA AS THE END USER OF AQUACULTURE

9:15 Walt Smith
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A CORAL REEF, WHO SHOULD WE BELIEVE, WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

10:00 BREAK

CULTURE

Moderator: Jeff E. Hill

11:00 Ricardo Calado, Maria Teresa Dinis
CLEANING CREWS FROM EUROPEAN WATERS: SUCCESSFUL RECRUITMENT OF NEW SPECIES FOR THE MARINE AQUARIUM TRADE

11:15 Joana Figueiredo, Luís Narciso, Ralph Turingan and Junda Lin
HOW EFFICIENT ARE EMERALD CRABS Mithraculus sculpus AS BUBBLE ALGAE Valonia spp. CONTROLLERS?

11:30 Adelaide Rhodes
ROLE OF COPEPODS IN MARINE REEF KEEPING

11:45 Brendan W. Clack, Chris J. Langdon
DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS TO IMPROVE ACCEPTABILITY OF ARTIFICIAL DIETS BY Asteropteryx semipunctata (BLUE SPOTTED GOBY) LARVAE

12:00 William F. Van Heukelem, Jonathan Doyle, Erin Ryder and Andrew Lazur
EFFECTS OF FATTY ACID DIET ENRICHMENTS ON SURVIVAL, GROWTH AND METAMORPHOSIS OF CLOWNFISH Amphiprion frenatus AND A. ocellaris

12:15 Jack Jewel
WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND QUARANTINE IN A RECIRCULATING CLOSED SYSTEM AQUARIUM

12:30 LUNCH

CULTURE (Continued)

Moderator: Roy Yanong

2:00 William F. Van Heukelem, Erin Ryder and Andrew Lazur
EFFECTS OF DIET INGREDIENTS ON COLOR AND GROWTH OF CLOWNFISH Amphiprion ocellaris AND A. frenatus

2:15 Monica Brazel & Hugh Purgley
FEEDING TECHNIQUES IN MULTI-SPECIES EXHIBITS

2:30 Andrew L. Rhyne, Erik Stenn, Junda Lin
WHY CHEAT MILLIONS OF YEARS OF FISH EVOLUTION?
HIGH DENSITY, CONSISTENT, SCALABLE, MASS PRODUCTION OF A MARINE CALANOID COPEPODS.

2:45 Todd Gardner
EVALUATION OF A CULTURED CALANOID COPEPOD AS A FIRST FOOD IN THE AQUACULTURE OF THE LINED SEAHORSE Hippocampus erectus

3:00 Sarah Jones and Junda Lin
USING HIGH SPEED VIDEO TO DETERMINE GAPE SIZE OF JUVENILES OF Hippocampus erectus, THE LINED SEAHORSE

3:15 BREAK

CULTURE (Continued)

Moderator: Craig Watson

4:00 Ephraim Temple and Chris Langdon
DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LIPID SPRAY BEADS FOR DELIVERY OF OXYTETRACYCLINE·HCL TO FIRST FEEDING GOBY Asterropteryx semipunctatus LARVAE

4:15 Amanda White, Kevin Jackson, Serge Medvedev, Christa Hanson, Carma Gilcrist, Bradford Bourque, and Harold Pomeroy
THE EFFECT OF JUVENILE DIET ON COLORATION FOR FALSE PERCULA CLOWNFISH Amphiprion ocelaris

4:30 Harold F. Pomeroy
A MORE EFFICIENT METHOD OF FATTY ACID ANALYSIS TO STUDY BROOD STOCK NUTRITION AND EGG QUALITY IN MARINE ORNAMENTAL FISHES Stephen K. O’Shea*, Nancy E. Breen, Bradford D. Bourque and

4:45 Adelaide Rhodes and Jerry Irving
FEEDING STRATEGIES FOR MANDARIN GOBIES AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE OF THE GENUS Synchiropus

5:00 Nicole R. Rhody, Krishen J. Rana, Robin J Shields
ONTOGENY OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DURING EARLY LARVAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE FLAME ANGELISH Centropyge loriculus: A MORPHOLOGICAL AND HISTOLOGICAL STUDY

 

[PeterIMA]

Someone asked whether Ferdinand Cruz would be attending the MO06 Conference. The answer is YES. See his talk listed under the Sustainability Symposium. Come see what the true reformers have been doing to help make the maarine aquarium trade sustainalble.

If your interest is with aquaculture/mariculture there are lots of presentations both with MO06 and with the World Aquaculuture Society Conference (WAS). Registration for MO06 also allows you to attend the WAS Conference presentations.

Come to Las Vegas February 14 to the 16th.

Peter Rubec

 

[clarionreef]

Come to Las Vegas February 14 to the 16th.

And don't worry 'bout a thing.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!
Steve

 

[clarionreef]

Everyones heading for Las Vegas tomorrow....

The deck was stacked against the sustainability sessions put together by Dr Rubec by giving MAC speakers 45 minutes each to speak first and far more capable participants just 15 minutes each.
The MAC speakers are not even on the panels. Nor is Reefcheck as they bowed out after learning who was on the panel.

After the dramatic, recent firings at MAC for 'non performance'....it may be the calm before the storm....for those who care.
Steve