24^th ANNUAL LARVAL FISH CONFERENCE:  GLOBAL CLIMATIC CHANGE, ESSENTIAL FISHERIES HABITAT AND EARLY LIFE HISTORY STAGES

November 2, 2000

Where:            Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores, Alabama

Over 100 international scientists will gather November 5-10 at the Gulf State Park to discuss one of the most topical issues in science today - global climate change. The mission of this conference focuses on the habitat of fish in early life history stages, and the potential for global climate change to modify existing habitats.  Issues addressed will include current research on global climate change; fish population size; environment-habitat-production linkages, and many more topics directly affecting fisheries.

For more information on this conference, please check out its Web site at http://www.disl.org/~conference/larvafish/

Sponsors of this conference, in alphabetical order, are:

• Coastal Fisheries Institute, Louisiana State University

• Dauphin Island Sea Lab

• Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University

•  Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama

• Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University

• Habitat Conservation Division, National Marine Fisheries Service

• National Marine Fisheries Service, Mississippi Laboratories

• The Graduate School, University of South Alabama

• The Louisiana Sea Grant College Program

• The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium