Consensus Conference Panelists

Eighteen experts in marine ecology, fishery management, stock assessment and fishing will serve as presenters and reviewers at NFCC's Consensus Conference on Integrating Marine Reserve Science and Fishery Management.

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Dates Set for Consensus Conference

NFCC's consensus conference on integrating marie reserve science and fisheries management will run from June 7 to 9, 2004, in Long Beach, California.

Internationally known marine ecologist Don Boesch will chair the meeting. Boesch is President of the Center for Environmental Science at the University of Maryland. He will be joined by a review panel of experienced professionals from fishery management and science, as well as expert presenters made up of the scientists doing the cutting edge research on marine reserve ecology, design, modeling and stock assessment.

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Supporters List for Consensus Conference Grows

The Surdna Foundation, the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation, NOAA Fisheries, the MPA Science Center and the port of Morro Bay have joined the list of supporters for NFCC's Consensus Conference on Integrating Marine Reserve Science and Fisheries Management.

NOAA Fisheries and the MPA Science Center are organizing a technical workshop series that will draw from the outcome at the consensus conference. Dr. Churchill Grimes, who heads up the NOAA Fisheries effort, participated in NFCC's planning committee.

Dr. Brock Bernstein, president of NFCC and conference organizer, said he was pleased with the support of the conference as well as progress on technical work completed by a planning committee that was staffed by NFCC and experts from the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea and the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans at Oregon State University.

"We've established a really excellent working relationship with the COMPASS and PISCO folks, who have been exceptionally professional and helpful," Bernstein said. PISCO assembled the collection of background papers to aid the committee in developing questions for the conference.

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