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42nd Annual Larval Fish Conference
June 24, 2018 - June 28, 2018
The 42nd annual Larval Fish Conference (LFC) will be held from 24-28 June 2018 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The meeting is being organized by John Dower (dower@uvic.ca), Francis Juanes (juanes@uvic.ca) and Pierre Pepin (pierre.pepin@dfo-mpo.gc.ca). Victoria is located on Vancouver Island and can be reached via connections through Vancouver and Seattle airports as well as via car ferries and high-speed catamarans.
The Delta Victoria Ocean Point Resort, located on Victoria’s inner harbour and just a five minute walk to downtown Victoria, will serve as the venue for the conference. A block of 75 rooms has been set aside for conference participants. Book the group rate room for the Larval Fish Conference at https://tinyurl.com/ybto2qvc . Students looking to share hotel accommodations can submit a request through the organizers who, with the help of Alison Deary and Marta Moyano, will coordinate requests.
There will be four full days of presentations (Monday through Thursday), with a poster session on Monday evening and a social event at the University Club on Wednesday evening. The LFC 2018 website is located at http://lfc-2018.com/. Registration and abstract submission via the website will open during the week of 22-26 January 2018 and will close on the 2 March 2018. Registration will be $600 CDN (~$480 USD; ~€400) for non-students and $300 CDN for students.
Janet Duffy-Anderson (NOAA, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA USA) will present the conference keynote address.
There will be five theme sessions: [1] There is life (and death) after metamorphosis: Recent advances in the ecology of juvenile fish; [2] Fisheries oceanography in a changing ocean; [3] Predator-prey interactions and consequences to growth-survival; [4] Emerging threats to ELH stages and potential consequences to physiological processes; and [5] Application of ichthyoplankton data to fisheries management. There will also be a contributed paper session.
A special mentoring session aimed at Early Career Scientists will be hosted by Alison Deary(alison.deary@noaa.gov) and Marta Moyano (marta.moyano@uni-hamburg.de) on the afternoon of Sunday June 24, 2018. Stuart Ludsin (Co-director of the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, The Ohio State University) will be providing a 3 hour tutorial on proposal writing.
A one-day Larval Fish Identification Workshop will be held on the campus of the University of Victoria by Peter Konstantinidis (peter.konstantinidis@