Benefits of the sponsorship include:
• Significant visibility of your organisation and/or brand products and services at an international, national and local level within the aquaculture and fishery sector—the fastest growing primary industry globally and rapid adopter of new scientific approaches.
• Visibility on the conference website, which will be broadly disseminated and promoted through social media.
• Promotion on conference elements such as banners, program, flyers, speaker’s platform, interval projection screens, backdrops, etc., depending on the level of sponsorship chosen.
• Verbal acknowledgment by the symposium chairs at the opening and closing ceremonies or at the start of selected sessions.
• A forum to promote and deliver the benefits of abalone research in the sponsor organisations.
• An exhibition space with a limited number of stands located in a key position to maximize the exhibitors’ visibility.
• Handouts and other promotional items included in the delegate registration packs.
• Advantages apply during the full duration of the conference.

There is a need to review and update the existing body of research and management approaches to:
1. prevent the further expansion of Long Spine Sea Urchins onto new reefs
2. reduce the impacts of Long Spine Sea Urchins on existing reefs to facilitate recovery
3. promote commercial harvesting as a control effort

Facilitating this review process through a workshop is necessary to ensure that all key stakeholders in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, the Commonwealth have input into:
• identifying R&D gaps
• sharing and agreeing (where possible) on objectives
• contributing to the design of a coordinated, regional approach to mitigate and manage the impacts of Long Spine Sea Urchins