Vancouver Island University and Nanaimo to host International Sturgeon Symposium in 2013

VIU and the City of Nanaimo will host the 7th International Sturgeon Symposium in 2013. The five-day conference will draw in over 500 educators, researchers, environmentalists, and sturgeon enthusiasts from around the world.

VIUs new $5.2-million International Centre for Sturgeon Studies (ICSS) will be completed by late 2010, and will make a perfect backdrop for the upcoming international events.

VIU is the only academic institution in western Canada to have captive white sturgeon broodstock - fish old enough to spawn. In 1991, researchers successfully conducted the first-ever captive spawning of Fraser River white sturgeon. In 2000, 2001 and 2004, VIU provided fertilized eggs and fry for the start-up of B.C.s only commercial white sturgeon culture operation in Sechelt, BC.

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