ANNEX 3: Agenda

Sunday 28 January 2001

Participants arrive in Bamako

Opening ceremony and welcoming of participants
Transfer to Sélingué
Round table: introductions and participants expectations

Telemetry tags
Fish anaesthesia and tagging

Practical sessions on fish anaesthesia and tagging
Round-up of daily progress

Effects of tags and tagging on fish biology
Basic principles on localizing telemetry transmitters

Practical sessions: transmitter search (“fox hunting”)
Round-up of daily progress

Radio wave propagation in the aquatic environment
Calculation of reception range for radio transmitters

Practical sessions: fish tagging and transmitter localization (continued from Wednesday)
Round-up of daily progress

Acoustic wave propagation in the aquatic environment
Calculation of reception range for acoustic transmitters

Practical sessions: area cartography and transmitter-equipped fish localization

Radio tracking strategy: choice of waves and frequencies
Use of automatic stations

Cartography and localization: mathematical foundations and application

Free

Habitat use by fish: fundamental calculations
Accuracy of localization: calculation and implications for habitat mapping.

Practical sessions: revision
Round-up of daily progress

Alternative methods to study fish behaviour in natural environment (hydro-acoustics, tagging and recapture, types of tags, selection criteria)
Presentation of a project proposal using the radio-tracking tool by K. DA COSTA

Tracking cycle of tagged fish in the natural environment

Definition of study projects involving biotelemetry: criteria, structure and implementation
Presentation of a project proposal using the radio-tracking tool by T. KONE

Capture of tagged fish, tagging evaluation, data recovery from electronic recorders (data storage tags and data loggers)

Presentation of a project proposal using the radio-tracking tool by A . CHIKOU

Round-up of daily progress

Biotelemetric data recovery from data storage tags and a biotelemetric automatic recording station

Presentation of a project proposal using the radio-tracking tool of S. ALHOUSSEINI, M.E. DIOP and H. TRAORE

Round-up of daily progress

Presentation of a project proposal using the radio-tracking tool of A. TOGUYENI
Presentation of a project proposal using the radio-tracking tool of S. BOUDA

Workshop general debriefing
Workshop official closing ceremony

Return journey to Bamako
View web sites of telemetry equipment manufacturers
Participants leave Bamako