Issue 5, October 2007

Ivory Coast Research Scientist Wins VR100 at 2007 AFS Annual General Meeting

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Tidiani Kone is the winner of VEMCO's VR100 acoustic receiver and VH165 hydrophone which AMIRIX donated for the raffle held at the end of this year's American Fisheries Society (AFS) Annual General Meeting in September.

Matthew Holland, VEMCO Sales Representative,
presents Dr. Kone with his new VR100.

Dr. Kone is currently attending the University of Washington in Seattle on a Fulbright Scholarship to learn more about fish telemetry techniques and the VR100 will provide a great starting point for him and his home institution in Ivory Coast, West Africa.

Fish diversity in West Africa is very high but very little studied, and while the fishery provides food and jobs in the region, there is much concern that human activities are threatening the sustainable use of fish resources for future generations.

To meet this challenge, Dr. Kone and his colleagues at the Laboratoire d'Hydrobiologie are developing a fish telemetry program that will collect accurate information on how fish species react and adapt to environmental changes. The program will gather data for biodiversity conservation of important wild species that represent a significant proportion of freshwater fisheries on the Ivory Coast.

See Dr. Kone's Poster Presentation from this year's AFS meeting for more information on his project.