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