The 6th World Recreational Fishing Conference (WRFC) will take place from August 1 - 4, 2011, in Berlin Germany at Humboldt-University of Berlin.

This conference is the major scientific forum to discuss progress and issues in the development and management of recreational fisheries. It is of relevance to all researchers and managers as well as representatives from industry and NGO's across the world. It is particularly relevant because many papers on recreational fisheries find their way into a wide range of disciplinary conferences, e.g., fisheries conferences, rural sociology, economics and the like. The WRFC conference series provide the unique opportunity to network with all peers interested in a common theme, and also to bring researchers and managers together and learn from experiences in other areas of the world. To this end, the 6th WRFC explicitly invites a broad spectrum of multidisciplinary abstract submissions so that collaboration and networking as well as exchange of cutting edge knowledge and insights from a wide range of fields is encouraged.

The theme of the 6th WRFC is "*Toward Resilient Recreational Fisheries*". A preliminary program with a list of conference themes and special theme sessions has been compiled and put online on the conference website (*www.worldrecfish.org*). As mentioned, this program is intented to attract a wide range of delegates from academia, fisheries management, industry as well as governamental and non-governamental organizations and avid anglers to jointly discuss papers presented on recreational fisheries orally and in poster formats.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the peer-reviewed literature after full peer-review.

There are four thematic sessions planned. Delegates will be asked to consider submitting their abstracts to these focal areas:

1. Globalization of recreational fisheries
2. Space, place and recreational fisheries
3. Change, adaptation and evolution in recreational fisheries
4. Stock, stocking and the future of recreational fisheries**

In addition, contributed papers can be developed fitting any of the following topical areas:

* Social value change and ethics of recreational fishing
* Payments for conservation of fish biodiversity
* Property rights and co-management
* Allocation of fisheries resources among competing demands
* New methodological tools to survey and assess recreational fisheries
* Creative methods for managing recreational fishing
* Understanding and solving conservation and other conflicts in
recreational fisheries
* Angling tourism development: social, economic and biological
challenges
* Biological impacts of recreational fisheries and their social and
economic consequences
* Harvest regulations and effort controls in recreational fisheries:
social, economic and ecological perspectives
* Biological and social aspects of catch-and-release
* Social, economic and biological aspects of a diversifying angler
public
* Aquatic stewardship behaviour and education
* Science-based recreational fisheries and traditional ecological
knowledge**


This announcement is just to make you aware about this important meeting in the summer of 2011. *Please note the calender days and try to secure your travel funds in advance.* It also makes sense to start thinking about how to develop your abstracts to fit the conference themes. *A first official call for papers will be issued in autumn this year.*
NOTE: Before this official call issued, no abstracts can be submitted nor considered. To keep updated about this upcoming call, please visit our website and subscribe to the newsletter to receive updates.

All the best and see you in 2011 in Berlin!

Robert Arlinghaus (on behalf of the scientific organizing committee)

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Prof. Dr. Robert Arlinghaus (Junior-S)
Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes (Abt. Biol. & Ökol. der Fische) Müggelseedamm 310
12587 Berlin
Phone +49-(0)30-64181-653
Fax. +49-(0)30-64181-750
email: arlinghaus@igb-berlin.de
skype: robertarlinghaus

Humboldt-University of Berlin
Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture
Institute of Animal Sciences
Research Group Inland Fisheries Management Philippstrasse 13, Haus 7
10115 Berlin

NOTE ON YOUR CALENDER
6th World Recreational Fishing Conference in Berlin see www.worldrecfish.org

Further information
see www.besatz-fisch.de for new transdisciplinary project see www.adaptfish.igb-berlin.de for interdisciplinary project see www.igb-berlin.de/~arlinghaus for information on personal research