6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium

19 - 23 August 2024 | Mpekweni Beach Resort, Eastern Cape | Fish, Fishers and the Future

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

25 days to #6samls 🐟

Understanding the importance of estuaries to #marine #linefish species is important, especially since many of these are dependent on estuaries at some stage during their lives. To account for this, we have a session dedicated to monitoring estuaries.

[SAIAB @NRF_SAIAB]

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[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

Having studied various aspects of multiple #SouthernAfrica marine #linefish species over the past (almost) 40 years, he has contributed significantly to what we currently know about these species. Colin will cover some monitoring work from the De Hoop #MPA over the past 40 years!

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

27 days🐟
FOUR WEEKS until #6samls!

We have three brilliant keynote speakers for the #linefish Symposium. The first is Prof Colin Attwood from @UCT_news, a #marine linefish researcher and legend! He's also attended every single linefish symposium since its inception in 1989.

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

27 days🐟
FOUR WEEKS until #6samls!

We have three brilliant keynote speakers for the #linefish Symposium. The first is Prof Colin Attwood from @UCT_news, a #marine linefish researcher and legend! He's also attended every single linefish symposium since its inception in 1989.

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

Learning more about the ecology of a #linefish species is only as good as knowledge of its biology (i.e. diet, reproduction, age, growth).

#6samls has 6 #SouthernAfrica life history talks lined up, focusing on species such as west coast steenbras, dusky kob & silver kob 🐟

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

32 days until #6samls

We have two dedicated fish movement sessions covering talks on species such as iconic giant kingfish, to smaller mullet and blacktail, to commercially important smoothhound sharks!

#marinescience #SouthernAfrica #Linefish

📷@PontaSharks

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

33 days until #6samls🐟
Things are slowly coming together, and what a jam-packed programme we have! With at least 60 talks spread across 12 sessions, we'll be getting some insight into the #linefish research currently being conducted in #SouthernAfrica
📷@chantel3474

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

34 days to #6samls

Researchers are now able to study the presence of animals in a region based purely on DNA found in their environments, to generating entire genomes of individual species! To this end, we have 7 #linefish genetics talks to look forward to.
#marinescience

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

37 days to #6samls

The climate is changing, which is why it’s important to understand how #linefish abundance, movements + behaviour may change. With 10 talks in our #climatechange theme, we can’t help but feel that our researchers and students are on it!
📷@SAFER_Lab

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

We have some fisher engagement talks on our #6samls programme, including celebrating 40 incredible years of the @saambr ORI Cooperative Fish Tagging Project, a #citizenscience project that is among the top ranked volunteer programmes around the🌍, with >386 000 tag releases!

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

It’s a no-brainer that the focus of the #SouthAfrican #marinescience #linefish symposium is linefish research (#duh). But we also have several overarching themes, including:
Angler engagement
Catch & release
#climatechange
#Fisheries
#Genetics
Life history
Monitoring & MPAs
Etc.

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

41 days until the #6samls 🎣

Researchers + students from 14 different organisations will be giving >50 presentations, with talks ranging from movement studies, to fisheries, to fisher engagement, and so much more!
#marinescience #SouthAfrica

📷 @2OceansAquarium + @SharkSpotters

[6th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium @6Samls]

44 days to until the 6th Southern African Marine #Linefish Symposium starts!

Here, researchers, students, managers + science communicators from southern Africa share results + work together to identify research gaps to help with management 🎣
#6samls #marinescience

[SAIAB @NRF_SAIAB]

Read more on how researchers who attended the 5th Southern African Marine Linefish Symposium (@5Samls) are working to address the effects that the ever-increasing global human population is having on the planet’s resources, ecosystems and climate:
https://t.co/x0yTioEgpp

[Rio Button @biologistbutton]

Inspirational to see the fantastic science leading the management of our line fisheries & where we need to focus going forward. Thank you to all organising & involved!

#marinebiology #linefish #SAMLS2019 #fishsci #teamfish

[Michael Skeeles @FishSciSkeeles]

Absolute privelege to take part in such a great symposium with so many great people. I can confidently say that Southern Africa's linefish are in great hands with the quantity and quality of research taking place behind the scenes! #southafrica #linefish #marinescience

[Judy Mann-Lang @eduoceans]

Such a privilege to present this keynote with Bruce at #samls2019. So many happy memories from the Eastern Cape here. Thank you to everyone, @SAFER_Lab team @wpotts18 and @childs_amber1 for a great symposium. One of the best!!

[SAIAB @NRF_SAIAB]

Thank you to all who made the @5Samls an invaluable experience. Well done to our researchers and students on giving excellent presentations. We look forward in supporting growth in the understanding and management of linefishes around southern Africa. #SAMLS2019 #linefish

[Dr. Alison Kock @UrbanEdgeSharks]

Thank-you for an inspiring symposium filled with incredible science, people and opportunities to positively influence our valuable line fish into the future @SANParks @NRF_SAIAB @SAEON_GSN

[Brett Pringle @brettpringle12]

Thanks to all who made @5Samls an invaluable experience! Such a privilege to meet the top dogs in the Linefish community! Now it's time to head back to Namibia for one last month of experiments. @SAFER_Lab @MarineBio_Muzza @alexwinkrsa #KobHybridProject #SAMLS2019