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Acknowledgements

This conference was made possible through the support of the following sponsors:

  • The Lenfest Foundation ( www.lenfestfoundation.org) and the Pew Charitable Trusts (www.pewtrusts.org) contributed to the development of Ecopath with Ecosim. Magic Software Enterprises ( www.magicsoftware.com) provided scientific cooperation in EwEís development.
  • The European Unionís International Cooperation Programme through the ECOST Project coordinated by Pierre Failler made possible the participation of some developing country scientists.
  • The Sea Around Us (www.seaaroundus.org) Project of the Fisheries Centre made possible the participation of some keynote speakers.
  • The University of British Columbia contributed to the sustainable and organic food catering brought to participants of this conference.

Abstracts submitted to this conference were reviewed by an international committee comprising of: Francisco ArreguÌn-S·nchÈz, Elizabeth Fulton, Johanna J. Heymans, Steve Mackinson, Jeffrey Polovina, Lynne Shannon and Howard Townsend.

Materials used in this conference, e.g., banners, name tags, bags, etc., were made possible with the professional help of Joann Glorioso, the WorldFish Center Philippine Office Events and Conference Coordinator, the SeaLifeBase Team and Mary Ann Bimbao of FIN who facilitated the exchanges between the WorldFish Center and the Sea Around Us Project.

The conference flyer was designed by Danny Godfrey and the Ecopath visualization page for the banners by Mike Pan.

Finally, the organizers wish to thank students and staff of the Fisheries Centre who volunteered to help out with the various and many tasks involved in making this conference run smoothly as possible: Pamela Allen, Jonathan Anticamara, Laura Tremblay-Boyer, Eny Buchary, Andrew Dyck, Pramod Ganapathiraju, Joe Hui, Roseti Imo, Ruth Joy, Rajeev Kumar, Lingbo Li, AndrÈs Cisneros-Montemayor, Grace Pablico, Frankie Robertson, Dawit Tesfamichael, Louise Teh, Lydia The, Pablo Trujillo, Wilf Swartz.