Nick Dulvy

NoWPaS 2025 connection
#FSBI2025

Grumpy man on a wine bottle

Reviewer 3 #FSBI2025

Absolutely brilliant #FSBI2025 banquet. I'm so grateful to Sarah and her team for organising such an amazing meeting, and to our past and current presidents & ian winfield for their incredible stewardship of this v special society...And all the young 'uns for bringing their fresh ideas/dance moves!

A #FSBI2025 icon!

Yesterday I presented #DIASPARA at the FSBI/IFM Symposium in Belfast #FSBI2025 🐟🌍 @thefsbi.bsky.social
We are strengthening the scientific basis for managing eel and salmon by analysing life-history traits, developing FAIR databases, and improving stock assessment models.
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Did you know @thefsbi.bsky.social fund up to 2 PhD studentships each year?

These include:
🐟 4 years of PhD funding.
🦈 A stipend higher than UKRI (on average).
🐠 Annual research budget of £3500.
🎣 +other benefits.

See fsbi.org.uk/phd-students... for full details or grab Melanie or me at #FSBI2025

Had a great time getting to #FSBI2025 with @otolithgirl.bsky.social and Lucy Smith using a range of #FSBIGreenTravel methods

Very proud of my MRes student who presented our results to the #FSBI2025 on coral reef fish communities from North West Madagascar

Lovely and fascinating field trip to Bushmills salmon hatchery and beach as part of #FSBI2025. Thank you to all our tour guides and Annika/Sarah for organising!

A man explains how salmon are caught and counted on a bridge. A group of about 8 scientists (most women) are listening.

A man holding a small net looks down into a pool, an adult salmon can be seen just breaching the surface of the water.

A group of people walk towards two white buildings, one labelled Smolt Trap and one labelled Adult Trap.

Tables in an old wood ceiling room, set up with whiskey for tasting with barrels in the background.

Great morning of talks, followed by whiskey and salmon at Bushmills, can't argue with that. #FSBI2025

An exciting excursion to the @afbini.gov.uk River Bush Salmon Station, followed by a trip to the mouth of the river bush, to round off the day! A treat to see some impressive returning salmon, as well as dolphins just off the coast, probably feeding on some now non-so-returning salmon... #FSBI2025

The FSBI Medal Winners session starts with a talk from Colin Adams. Colin, previous President of the FSBI, has been awarded this year's Beverton Medal. Given the FSBI's focus on supporting ECRs, Colin draws on his wealth of experience, with a talk titled "Surviving a career in research" #FSBI2025

This year's FSBI medal is awarded to @mjjuanjorda.bsky.social. Maria talks to us today about what tuna have taught her throughout her career. Some very useful lessons learned and advice for the ECRs in the audience! #FSBI2025

Eyeing DNA barcoding for species identification of fish larvae Identification of fish larvae based on morphology is typically limited to higher taxonomic ranks (e.g., family or order), as larvae possess few morphological diagnostic characters for precise discrim...

The next awardee that we hear from is Rochelle Chan, awarded this year's Huntingford Medal, for most impactful paper in the Journal of Fish Biology. Rochelle's paper utilises #sequencing and barcoding to identify species from #larvae in a high throughput way #FSBI2025 #JFB doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

Our final medal award winner is Oliver Crimmen, of the Nautral History Museum (London), who was awarded this year's Le Cren Medal. With over 50 years of experience, some species are now present in the collection but extinct in the wild, which gives much pause for thought #FSBI2025

Fantastic keynote on #FSBI2025 Day 4 by @nickdulvy.bsky.social - highlighting how equitable and collaborative big data approaches can help advance management and conservation of threatened fish species 🦈

Had a great time presenting my work on fish bioturbation in the #FSBI25 poster session today! Lots of great chats and new connections! 🦈🐠
@thefsbi.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social

It was brilliant to catch up with so many people from #NoWPaS2025 at #FSBI2025

Nice to stretch the legs and see a bit of the River Lagan at the same time.
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We had a lovely afternoon down by the Lagan including a trip to see the Big Fish.
#FSBI2025

Had an amazing evening #networking over an early Xmas dinner 🎄 and sharing 2024's success stories 🎊 with some of our amazing @centrebluegov.bsky.social UoP researchers! I'm really lucky to work with such a lovely team of enthusiastic people - looking forward to some exciting projects in 2025 🙏

Fab fieldtrip to the River Bush Salmon Station and Runkerry Strand on Day3 of #FSBI2025 - learning a load about local #Atlanticsalmon management strategies - finished the evening with a local curry chip!
#conferenceathome #fishconference #IFM - with
@dravowles.bsky.social

A great time presenting my work on salmonid metabolism across a latitudinal gradient, lots of interesting conversations with everyone after the talk #FSBI2025

Great way to start day 3 of #FSBI2025! 🏃‍♀️🐠

A very enjoyable time presenting the first chapter of my PhD on the interactions between beaver and migratory fish at #FSBI2025

Great start to #FSBI2025 with a thought provoking Jack Jones lecture by Robert Rosell about reintroducing salmon into the River Lagan. Parallels to salmon fishing in the Yemen! Also v. proud of @peterbetts.bsky.social for his excellent talk on salmon metabolism across latitudinal gradients 👏

Interesting first day of talks at the #FSBI2025 conference. Great talk by Ben (Bluck) from our research group on European eel response to light within a "passage" context.

Great to see #FSBI2025 conference organisers & attendees making such an effort for sustainable travel 💚

@elliedolan.bsky.social gives talk on experimental evidence for how various barriers and weirs influence salmon parr behaviour and likelihood of crossing #FSBI2025

All this from @jamesmacarthur.bsky.social #FSBI2025