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Note from the coordinator

In this issue of the Bulletin, we present several original articles:

Jeff Kinch provides detailed information on the historic, social and economic aspects of a sea cucumber fishery in Papua New Guinea along with its management options.

Few papers have been published on operations in the Philippines, the subject of an article by Akamine Jun.

Peter Fankboner describes an unusual biological phenomenon, salinity-related seasonal atrophy of the viscera in a temperate species, Parastichopus californicus.

No inventory of the sea cucumbers of Reunion Island, Indian Ocean, had ever been made before the article by Chantal Conand and Perrine Mangion. The article also provides information on abundance and population structures for the dominant fringing reef species.

The problems encountered by Mexican fisheries are presented in an article by Alonso Aguilar Ibarra and Georgina Ramirez Soberon.

Andrew Morgan describes problems related to farming certain sea cucumber species and explains how his work is developing (see also previous issues of the Bulletin).

At the end of the Bulletin, you will also find the regular features, such as Correspondence and Abstracts, Publications, Workshops & Meetings, along with the addresses of the new members of our Special Interest Group.

Previous issues of this Bulletin are also available online in both French and English. I also draw your attention to the very informative Virtual Echinoderms Newsletter. Issue no. 26 is 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.stohr@nrm.se or by sending an e-mail 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.

The 11th International Echinoderm Conference will be held at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, from 6–10 October 2003. More information can be found at: www.iec2003.uni-muenchen.de

Chantal Conand

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