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AFS Symposium on fishing gear selectivity and survey gear performance -
Call for submissions

American Fisheries Society is sponsoring a symposium on "fishing gear
selectivity and survey gear performance" at its annual meeting in
Anchorage, Alaska, September 11 - 15, 2005.  You are invited to submit
oral  and poster presentation abstracts for review and inclusion in the
symposium program. We are interested in topics related to size and
species selectivity of commercial fishing gears used in the marine
environment and performance of survey fishing gears used in fish stock
and ecological assessments.  Please send your submission to Dr. Pingguo
He ([log in to unmask]) before Feb. 23, 2005.  You will be informed of
the decision by Feb. 25, 2005.  The submission should contain:

Author's name (s) indicating presenting author with an * if more than
one author

Affiliation and address

Email address

Title of the presentation

Form of presentation:  oral ___, poster ____,  will consider poster if
oral presentation is not available ___

Abstract (draft is fine. Final draft will need to be submitted online
via AFS website as indicated above).

Once accepted, you will be required to submit an abstract via AFS
website: http://portaltools.fisheries.org/2005Abs/abinsertform.cfm
before March 4, 2004.

More information on the AFS annual meeting and other symposiums can be
found at AFS's website: www.Fisheries.org.

Please contact Pingguo He ([log in to unmask]) or Joe DeAlteris
([log in to unmask]) if you have any question.

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Pingguo He (PhD)
Research Associate Professor- Fisheries
University of New Hampshire
137 Morse Hall, 39 College Road
Durham,  NH 03824    USA
Tel. (603) 862-3154
Email:  [log in to unmask]

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