CETMAR participates in the organisation of the VI SIBECORP, a scientific forum on Latin American fisheries that brings together a hundred researchers in Portugal.
- The Latin-American Symposium on Reproductive Ecology, Recruitment and Fisheries will last until Friday 15th November at the IPMA headquarters in Oeiras
- The congress is promoted by the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere together with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, with the collaboration of the Technology Centre of the Sea as technical secretariat of Red Invipesca
One hundred researchers belonging to more than 35 institutions from a dozen countries are participating from Monday until 15th November in the sixth edition of the ‘Latin American Symposium on Reproductive Ecology, Recruitment and Fisheries-SIBECORP’, held in Portugal. the Technology Centre of the Sea-CETMAR, dependent on the Regional Department for Marine Issues, was in charge of its organization through the technical secretariat of Red Invipesca.
The congress is organized by the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), together with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), and will be held in a hybrid format (face-to-face and virtually) at the IPMA headquarters in Oeiras, Portugal.
Consolidated as an outstanding forum for scientific discussion for the promotion and application of the ecosystem approach in the assessment of Latin American fisheries, the aim of this sixth edition is to continue enriching knowledge around these topics.
The symposium will allow the exchange of the latest research advances and the generation of new professional alliances among participants from 12 countries: Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, France and the Philippines. Researchers will present nearly a hundred papers in oral and poster sessions.
The presentations are divided into four thematic sessions on reproductive strategies of aquatic organisms, reproductive potential and resilience, recruitment and reproductive success, and reproductive ecology and fisheries management. The program also included two pre-congress courses on 7th and 8th November, and a post-congress course on 18th November.
SIBECORP is an initiative of the Latin American Network of Fisheries Research-Red Invipesca, with CETMAR in charge of the technical secretariat and its activities funded by the Regional Department for Marine Issues.
SIBECORP held its first edition in Vigo in 2009 and since then four other editions have been held in Argentina (2012), Brazil (2015), Chile (2018) and Colombia (2021). Up to now, with the participation of representatives from a dozen countries nearly half a thousand papers have been presented.
As in previous editions, the SIBECORP event responds to the concern of Latin American researchers to promote collaboration between their countries, given the importance of marine and inland fisheries as a vital economic resource for Latin America, Spain and Portugal. On this basis, the symposium aims at identifying and defining lines of research of common interest and to encourage joint projects promoting cooperation in fisheries research.
Registration for this new edition is still open through the symposium’s website, which also gathers all the information about the VI SIBECORP.
Red Invipesca
In addition to participating in the organization of the symposium, and with the support of the Regional Department for Marine Issues through CETMAR, Red Invipesca is developing other actions to enrich collaboration between marine research institutions in the Latin American area.
Accordingly, Invipesca drew up a map of researchers and research institutions in the marine field in Latin America and developed several exchange actions to develop common strategic lines. The network also serves as an outreach channel for different funding lines for the implementation of projects.
With a view to drawing up the priority lines of action for the next three years, the members of Red Invipesca will participate in the Annual Assembly of the Network during the SIBECORP event.
