The Symposium will be organized by topics within themes that will be addressed through oral presentations and poster sessions.

Keynote speakers will give talks on the major themes of “Acoustics and technology in ecosystem-based fisheries management”

Keynote talks will be 30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions; all other talks will be 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions.

Oral presentations will be limited to a maximum of 100 papers; authors will be limited to a maximum of two papers.

Authors will be limited to one oral presentation and one poster as senior author; presentations must be given by the lead author unless there are extenuating circumstances.

Efforts will be made to minimize the number of parallel sessions.

A poster may be requested in lieu of an oral presentation. Poster sessions will be introduced with a brief description of each poster within the appropriate theme and topic session by the chair.

The Symposium will be conducted in English.

Dissemination

Following the Symposium in June 2008, the conference results will be disseminated to the scientific community by selecting the relevant papers and publishing the proceedings in the ICES Journal of Marine Science.  A synthesis of the results of each topic will be made available to the international community on this website.