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HAPPENING THURSDAY IN CANCUN
Plenary Session
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10:30 AM - 12:10 PM, Gran Cancun H
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Marina Marrari
Federación Costarricense de Pesca (FECOP), Costa Rica
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Marine recreational fishing:
Challenges and opportunities for development in coastal communities
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Enrique Alonso
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
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Adapting Market-based Tools to Mobilise Supply Chains to Address the Priority Improvement Needs of Small Scale Fisheries
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Symposia and Contributed Paper Sessions
Note: All sessions that were scheduled for Costa Maya 1-5 have moved to Cozumel 1-5.
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- Connecting Sustainable Fishing/Aquaculture with Sustainable Consumption, Cozumel 5
- Contributed Topics: Human Impacts, Cozumel 1
- Recreational Fisheries in Latin America and the Caribbean: Opportunities and Challenges Part II, Gran Cancun 4
- Aquatic Habitat Ecology & Conservation: Continental and Marine Ecosystems Connectivity Day 2, Cozumel 3
- Billfish management and conservation, implications for fishing tourism and coastal communities, Cozumel 4
- Contributed Topics: Genetics, Cozumel 2
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- Virtual Q & A: Comparing Range-Wide Observations from Snook/Robalo (Centropomus spp.): Fostering Collaboration through Information Sharing, Online only
- Comparing Range-Wide Observations from Snook/Robalo (Centropomus spp.): Fostering Collaboration through Information Sharing - Day 2, Cozumel 1
- Conformation of the Recreational Fisheries Regional Network in Latin America and the Caribbean, Gran Cancun 4
- Introduced salmonids in South America: distribution, impacts, and management, Cozumel 5
- Microplastics: Impacts, challenges, and knowledge in marine organisms, Cozumel 2
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Update on Noise Issues
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As you experienced on Tuesday, the convention center is hosting a second celebration of teachers in the lower floor of the center on Thursday morning. We anticipate that it will be similar to Tuesday's event with about 1,000 guests, a band, and speeches. All of our sessions will be on floors 2 and 3 and we have requested, multiple times, that they lower the noise level. The convention center allowed these events without consulting with AFS and, other than moving our sessions to higher floors, they have been unresponsive to our requests to limit the impacts upon the LACFC. We are very disappointed with this major scheduling error by the convention center and have expressed this numerous times. We apologize for the inconvenience and communication problems that this has caused. Please check your conference app for updated room assignments.
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Refresh and Connect
- Morning Break, Gran Cancun G, 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
- Afternoon Break, Gran Cancun G, 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
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Registration is located on the first level of the Cancun Convention Center (map).
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Registration & Information Booth Hours:
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- Thursday: 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
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Attendees should download the "American Fisheries Events" mobile app now available from the App Store or Google Play. Once you have logged in and created a profile, you can begin to build out your schedule. Personalized schedules created on either the mobile App or desktop Conference Platform are shared between the two platforms.
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Plenary sessions will be livestreamed from Cancun—links to these events will be posted on the desktop platform and app a few minutes before the events begin.
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Please remember to access the LACFC Learning Center. The LACFC virtual presentation recordings will be available for 180 days. Asynchronous question-and-answer functionality is included. Please click the button to log into the Learning Center - you will need to log in with the same log in information you used when registering.
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Photos taken by LACFC photographer Tanner Scholten of the sessions and networking events are now available for viewing!
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Get Social
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The official hashtag for the Latin America & Caribbean Fisheries Congress is #LACFC2023. Browse the Twitter feed in the mobile App for live tweets from the conference. Follow @AmFisheriesSoc and @latamericafish for live tweets from the conference.
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AFS 153rd Annual Meeting
20 -24 August 2023
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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The American Fisheries Society, President April Croxton, and the Michigan Chapter are excited to host the 153rd AFS Annual Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Home to the iconic Blue Bridge and Grand River, AFS is thrilled to return to the city of Grand Rapids following a successful Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting held earlier this year. As we continue to address the various stressors impacting fisheries and their ecosystems, we hope that this year’s theme, “Adaptive approaches to understand and manage changes in fisheries,” will stimulate a wide range of sessions as we bring together professionals from across North America and countries throughout the world.
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9th World Fisheries Congress
3-9 March 2024
Seattle, Washington
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Organized through the World Council of Fisheries Societies, every four years delegates from around the world meet to exchange ideas and perspectives about new research, emerging issues, scientific breakthroughs, and governance related to fisheries science, industry, conservation, and management.
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Join us in 2024 as we explore the congress theme of Fish and Fisheries at the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. We are preparing a program composed of an opening plenary, general sessions, education workshops, and planned symposia related to sustainability, fish and aquatic ecosystems, fisheries and society, and innovations in fisheries.
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Thank You to Our Sponsors
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- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fish and Aquatic Conservation
- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologìa, Universidad Nacional Autònoma de México
- AFS Oregon Chapter
- The Nature Conservancy Fish Path
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Student and Faculty Travel Supporters
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SCOR
AFS West Virginia Chapter
AFS Education Section
Susan Schmidtlein
USFWS
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AFS Arizona/New Mexico Chapter
AFS Colorado/Wyoming Chapter
AFS Equal Opportunities Section
AFS Estuaries Section
AFS Fisheries Administration Section
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AFS Idaho Chapter
AFS Illinois Chapter
AFS North Carolina Chapter
AFS North Central Division
AFS Tidewater Chapter
AFS West Virginia Chapter
AFS Western Division
Doug Austen
Ecologists Without Borders
Eric Fetherman
Gas y Petroquímica de Occidente
Hagamos Más Por Santa Rosalía
Sustainable Fisheries Partnerships
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Thank you also the many individual donors who helped us meet our goal of $3,000 to support student travel!
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