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Note
from the coordinator
Welcome to the 16th issue of the
Bulletin. In this issue, Steve Purcell et al. present
the three-year ICLARM project on Optimal Release
Strategies for Sea Cucumbers. This project has started
its activities at SPC Noumea and aims to determine
the best strategies for releasing sandfish (Holothuria
scabra) into the wild for the purpose of restocking
and stock enhancement of inshore Pacific fisheries.
Also in this issue, an article
by Mike Trianni, from the CNMI Division of Fish
and Wildlife, describes a sea cucumber fishery that
took place between October 1995 and May 1996 on
the island of Saipan. You will also find articles
about the sexual reproduction and farming of larvae
of a little-studied species in India and about Apostichopus
japonicus larvae.
Abstracts of the sea cucumbers
presentations made during the 6th European
Conference on Echinoderms in Banyuls (2001) and
other press articles are also included in this issue.
Issue no. 26 of the Echinoderms
Newsletter is now also available on the Web at www.nmnh.si.edu/iz/echinoderm.
An echinoderms forum was created
after the International Conference in Dunedin. You
can subscribe to it by contacting sabine.strohr@nrm.se
or by sending an email to listserv@nrm.se
and including on the first line of the message SUBSCRIBE
ECHINODERM-L, your surname and first name, but no
other text.
Please do not hesitate to send
me your comments or suggestions in order to make
this bulletin more interesting and useful.
Chantal Conand
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