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Shark News 6: March 1996

Meetings
American Elasmobranch Society 12th Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 13-19 June 1996. Deadline for papers and pre-registration was 1 April. Contact Dr Sandford Moss, Dept. of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA. Fax: (+1)508 999-8196. E-mail smoss@umassd.edu.

Second World Fisheries Congress
Developing and Sustaining World Fisheries
Resources: the state of science and management

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 28 July-2 August 1996. Contact: Congress Secretariat, PO Box 1280, Milton, Brisbane, Qld 4064, Australia. Fax:+61 73369 1512. Email:im@cc.qu.oz.au. Congress home page is http://www.ml.csiro.au/~bradford/WFC_page.html.

Sharks and Man: Worldwide Management and Conservation
This one day symposium will be held on 2 August, the last day of the World Fisheries Congress. See page 3 for more information.

IUCN World Conservation Congress
Montreal Conference Centre, Canada. 14-23 October 1996. Contact IUCN, 28 rue Mauverney, 1196 Gland, Switzerland.

5th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference
ORSTOM Centre, Noumea (New Caledonia). October 1997. A symposium will be devoted to Chondrichthyan fishes. Contact the URL at http://www.mnhn.fr/sfi/Congres/IPFC5.html, or B.Seret, AntenneORSTOM, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire d'lchtyologie, 43 Rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France. Fax: (33) 1 40 79 37 71. Email: seret@mnhn.fr.