NEW AFS COASTAL AND MARINE JOURNAL ACCEPTING PAPERS

The new AFS journal of Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science is now accepting papers.  For more information, please visit the Publications page of the AFS Parent Society website.

The Marine Fisheries Section is pleased to sponsor the IV Workshop on Gonadal Histology of Fishes and the 4th International Otolith Symposium.  Please see below for more information.

IV WORKSHOP ON GONADAL HISTOLOGY OF FISHES

This workshop is being held in Cadiz, Spain, from 16-19 June 2009.  For more information, please see pamphlet below and visit the website at http://www.fresh-cost.org/Workshop-Histology

The 4^th International Otolith Symposium (IOS), is the next in a series of highly informative and practical meetings on the science of calcified structures (typically otoliths).  This international meeting brings together researchers and resource managers to review the current status of the research and its applicability to fisheries management.  This will be the fourth symposium in the series.  The last symposium in 2004 in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, had over 265 oral and poster presentations and was attended by more than 300 delegates from at least 31 countries, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, China, Japan, Russia, France, Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.  This meeting is organized into five themes: Age and Growth Estimation and Validation, Physiology, Chemical Composition, Schlerochronology, and Life History and Fisheries Management, and will include plenary, oral, and poster sessions, and perhaps workshops over the 5-day period.  Proceedings from the symposium will be published in a special volume of the Environmental Biology of Fishes.

For more information, please visit the website at https://tundra.ihpc.washington.edu/ios

Other NEWS…..

● Website: The website continues to be updated as material becomes available.  If you have any news that you would like distributed to the MFS members, or information to post to the new website, please contact me directly at dmurie@ufl.edu.  There may be some difficulty viewing some photos on the website with different web browsers (e.g. Mozilla Firefox) but it should view properly using Internet Explorer.  Problems with other browsers will be fixed as soon as possible (99% of the website views correctly).