Six keynote presentations were made during the Symposium and these were:
i) T. DONE - Where to next for coral reefs?
ii) E. ALLISON - Vulnerability of small-scale fisheries to the impacts of climate change: developing adaptive responses at multiple scales
iii) F. MARSAC - Trends of fisheries in the West Indian Ocean, climate forcing and ecosystem considerations
iv) J. CINNER - Overcoming overfishing: perspectives from the WIO and around the globe
v) S. ANDREFOUET - The Millennium Coral Reef Mapping of the Central and Western Indian Ocean
vi) G.D. QUARTLY - Variability and Productivity in the Indian Ocean: A view from above