Does Large-Scale Collaborative Research Between Fishery Managers and Scientists Improve Wild Population Conservation and Fisheries Management Practices? Outcome from 15 Years' Experience in Lake and River Fisheries on Brown Trout and Arctic Char

Salmonids species represent an important heritage as well as an economic and recreational value. Over the last decades, the importance of conserving wild populations has reached a worldwide scale among scientists and fishery managers, and research into the field has been increasing. Nevertheless, scientific results are rarely converted into active conservation and management actions by practitioners. Here, we present the results of collaborative applied research between scientists and fishery managers implemented since 2000 in Northern French Alps, in order to improve management actions.

We focus our presentation on the results of large-scale assessments of stocking and genetic diversity in brown trout and Arctic char fisheries in river and lake. Our goal is to provide to audience some outcomes on how scientists and managers together can adapt their practices in order to conserve and restore wild populations and self-sustainable fisheries.