FSBI 2025 Annual Symposium
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July 2025, Belfast
The 2025 Symposium, convened by Queen's University Belfast, presents the latest science on fish and fisheries management in a first ever joint symposium with the IFM.
The conference aims to bring together scientists from a range of disciplines to explore ways of integrating our research and strengthening relationships with stakeholders and policymakers to improve the effectiveness of fisheries management and fish conservation.
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Travel information
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Instructions for presenters
Posters
A poster consists of easily read text and graphics describing your work.
Preferred format Portrait A0 size paper (841 mm wide x 1189 mm high). If you prefer landscape or a smaller portrait sized poster, note that that height cannot be greater than 190 cm and width cannot be greater than 95 cm
Posters should ideally be put up on Monday afternoon, but you can also put them up on Tuesday morning.
Oral presentations
Orals are scheduled for 10 minutes, with 8 minutes maximum for presentation.
Questions will be right after your talk or as part of a Q&A panel with other speakers in your session afterwards
Preferred format: Power Point or PDF widescreen (16:9).
You will be asked to upload your presentation a few days before the meeting. More information on this will be provided soon.
Monday Workshops
Spawning Run
Registration / Accommodation
Financial support to attend the symposium:
FSBI Travel Grants:
The FSBI offers the opportunity for its members to apply on a competitive basis for financial assistance in support of travel to the FSBI annual symposium.
Symposium Awards:
Special Issue of the Journal of Fish Biology
Journal of Fish Biology is calling for submissions of original studies that describe research that uses omics data, either on its own or alongside other methods, to make advance fish ecology, management, and forecasting. Reviews which are well summarized and of far-sighted prospects are also encouraged.
FSBI Medal Winners TBC
Each year, the FSBI awards medals for lifelong individual contributions to fish biology and/or fisheries science, with a focus on ground-breaking research; for lifelong individual or team contributions to conservation, training or public understanding of the disciplines; and for individual exceptional advances in early career within these disciplines.
Beverton Medal
The Beverton Medal is awarded to an individual in recognition of ground-breaking research and lifelong contribution to the study of fish and fisheries science.
Le CREN MEDAL
The Le Cren medal is awarded to one or more individuals who have made a lifelong contribution, with a focus on conservation, training or public understanding.
HUNTINGford MEDAL
The Huntingford medal is awarded to a member of the society with the most impactful paper published in in the Journal of Fish Biology.
FSBI MEDAL
The FSBI medal is awarded to an early career scientist who is deemed to have made exceptional advances in the study of fish biology and/or fisheries science.
Symposium Committees
Local Organising Committee
Sarah Helyar (Queen's University Belfast)
Nigel Milner (IFM/ Bangor University)
Will Perry (Cardiff University Water Research Institute, UK)
Chris Brodie (Royal HaskoningDHV, UK)
Scientific Advisory Committee
Sarah Helyar (Queen's University Belfast)
Nigel Milner (IFM/ Bangor University)