Building Capacity for Fish Biology in Subsaharan Africa

sponsorship: We gratefully acknowledge Victor Mamonekene and Armel Ibala Zamba for leading the PAFFA7 conference, and all the members of the local and international organizing committees for facilitating the event and providing time and space in which to hold the roundtable. We also thank the team at the University of Marien Ngouabi for hosting the conference, and The Nature Conservancy for funding BLS and JCM's participation. We thank Kisekelwa Tchalondawa, Pascal Masilya Mulungula, Celestin Danadu Mizani, Albert Chakona, Hank Bart, Taylor Mambo Baba, Melanie Stiassny, Maarten Vanhove, Maarten Van Steenberge and Laban Musinguzi for sharing their thoughts during the workshop, which we have synthesized here with some of our own perspectives. We also highlight and gratefully acknowledge the long term support of the PAFFA conferences by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation and the sustained efforts by the Royal Museum for Central Africa to train students from across Africa. Without support from these two entities, many of the assembled scientists and students could not have attended to voice their opinions. Lastly, we thank all the many researchers who attended the workshop, listened, and indicated their interest in helping to bring about the future envisioned herein. (JRS Biodiversity Foundation)