8:30-8:50         Registration and Coffee

8:50-9:00         Opening Comments.  Grace Klein-MacPhee 

9:00-9:20        Scale pattern analysis discriminates Atlantic salmon by river-reach rearing origin. Ruth Haas-Castro¹, Tim Sheehan¹, S. Cadrin¹, and J. Trial², ¹NOAA Fisheries, Woods Hole, MA, ²Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission, Bangor, ME

9:20-9:40         Variation in growth among and within populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmon salar, L.)
Doug Sigourney¹, ², Ben Letcher², Rick Cunjak³ and Gregg Horton^{1, 2}, ¹University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, ²S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, Turners Falls, MA, ³University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

9:40-10:00       Three-dimensional movement of silver-phase American eels (Anguilla rostrata) within the forebay of a small hydroelectric facility.* Leah Brown, Alex Haro, and Theodore Castro-Santos, S. O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, Turners Falls, MA

10:00-10:40     Break

10:40-11:00     Has this fish been overlooked? Documenting the decline of Atlantic tomcod in coastal Connecticut waters.* Heather Fried and Eric Schultz, University of Connecticut, Storrs

11:00-11:20     Soniferous fishes in Hudson River.* Katie Anderson, Rodney Rountree, and Francis Jaunes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

11:20-11:40     Fecundity and spawning of the Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.* Alison S. Leschen, Boston University Marine Program, Woods Hole, MA

11:40-12:00     Business Meeting

 12:30-1:30       Lunch

1:30-2:10         What's up with coastal fisheries research down under: an antipodean view from Western Australia. Boze Hancock, NOAA Fisheries, Narragansett, RI

2:10-2:30         Habitat assessment models for bay scallops Argopecten irradians. Elizabeth K. Hinchey, Marnita M. Chintala, Timothy R. Gleason, S. Brandt-Williams. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI  

2:30-2:50         Histopathological lesions in tissues of wild-caught sharks - can we use them as bioindicators of environmental stress? Joanna Borucinska, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2:50-3:10         Identification of DNA microsatellite markers for tautog conservation.* Arpita Choudhury and Terence Bradley, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

* Denotes student papers.