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Preface
fi shing opportunities to preserving them for their fundamental role in population
replenishment and persistence.
We hope that this book is useful to all those with interest in fi sh spawning aggregations, from managers and conservation practitioners, to biologists, teachers, artists,
writers, students and to others who wish to understand more about these incredible
natural events, and how to appreciate and preserve them far into the future.
Society for the Conservation of Reef Fish Aggregations
In 2000, following a mini-symposium on aggregating species, the Society for the
Conservation of Reef Fish Aggregations (SCRFA) was formed by a small group of
biologists concerned about what they were witnessing in their respective parts of the
world in relation to aggregating fi sh species. Since 2000 the SCRFA has developed,
and continues to work towards the effective management and conservation of reef
fi sh aggregations (www.SCRFA.org). Our participation in the SCRFA, the funding
received, particularly from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation that has
enabled us to develop our work and bring to it wide international attention as well
as local action, has been a major motivating and focusing factor in bringing this
book project to completion and in producing a range of data reported in many of the
chapters and species accounts.
Preface
fi shing opportunities to preserving them for their fundamental role in population
replenishment and persistence.
We hope that this book is useful to all those with interest in fi sh spawning aggregations, from managers and conservation practitioners, to biologists, teachers, artists,
writers, students and to others who wish to understand more about these incredible
natural events, and how to appreciate and preserve them far into the future.
Society for the Conservation of Reef Fish Aggregations
In 2000, following a mini-symposium on aggregating species, the Society for the
Conservation of Reef Fish Aggregations (SCRFA) was formed by a small group of
biologists concerned about what they were witnessing in their respective parts of the
world in relation to aggregating fi sh species. Since 2000 the SCRFA has developed,
and continues to work towards the effective management and conservation of reef
fi sh aggregations (www.SCRFA.org). Our participation in the SCRFA, the funding
received, particularly from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation that has
enabled us to develop our work and bring to it wide international attention as well
as local action, has been a major motivating and focusing factor in bringing this
book project to completion and in producing a range of data reported in many of the
chapters and species accounts.