After working to establish professional standards for mainly freshwaters, fishery managers are looking to play their part in the development and conservation of Britain’s sea fisheries.

To encourage involvement, the Institute of Fisheries Management’s (IFM) annual conference will focus four of its seven sessions on sea and estuarine fish.

Keith Hendry, chairman of the conference organising committee, said the IFM was exchanging ideas and helping train personnel with the English regional inshore fisheries and conservation authorities (IFCAs) and similar bodies in the rest of the UK and working with academia, river trusts, consultancies and volunteers.

“We plan to expand this working together starting with the October conference,” he said.

Officers from three IFCAs – North Western, Devon and Severn and Southern – will speak in the first conference sessions, including one on the controversial issue of integrating angling into the management of sea fisheries.

Other sessions will be on marine development and fisheries management, sea trout and the significance and management of sea run and transitional fish.

Sessions of freshwater fisheries will cover management, fish passage and barrier removal.

The conference is open to all and will take place in Liverpool, UK from 7 to 9 October 2014.

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