8:30-8:50         Registration and Coffee

8:50-9:00         Opening Comments.  Chris Tomichek

9:00-9:20         Habitat use of state-endangered burbot (Lota lota) in northwestern Connecticut.*  Christopher J. Dixon and Jason C. Vokoun, Department of Natural Resources Management and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, christopher.dixon@huskymail.edu

9:20-9:40         Cohort dynamics of summer-spawned bluefish as determined by length-frequency and otolith microstructure analyses.  David L. Taylor¹ and Kenneth W. Able², ¹Roger Williams University, Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Bristol, RI , ²Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Marine Field Station, Tuckerton, NJ, dtaylor@rwu.edu

9:40-10:00       Ichthyoplankton of Narragansett Bay: distribution of eggs and larvae. Grace Klein-MacPhee and Dennis Erkan, RIDEM Marine Fisheries, Jamestown, RI, gracekmac@conversent.net

10:00-10:20     Break

10:20-10:40     How many invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles/complex) are there along the U.S. coast?  Jonathan A. Hare and Paula E. Whitfield, National Marine Fisheries Service, Narragansett, RI, jhare@mola.na.nmfs.gov

10:40-11:00     Use of habitat mapping for managing estuaries.  Giancarlo Cicchetti, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI, cicchetti.giancarlo@epa.gov

11:0 0-11:40    Effort control in the lobster fishery – modeling the biological and economic results of different combinations of boats and traps in the Southern New England lobster fishery.*  Richard B. Allen, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, rballen@uri.edu

11:40-12:00     Spatial and temporal distribution of Atlantic mackerel along the Northeast Coast.  Mary Radlinski, UMASS Dartmouth, SMAST, New Bedford, MA, g_mradlinski@umassd.edu

12:00-12:20     Business Meeting

12:20-1:15       Lunch

1:15-2:00         Advanced technology for fishery science: experiences with archival tagging.  Steve Cadrin, NOAA/UMass Cooperative Marine Education & Research Program, School for Marine Science & Technology, New Bedford, MA,  Steven.Cadrin@NOAA.gov

2:00-2:20       Baltic Sea sprat (Sprattus sprattus) larvae: coupling food availability, larval condition and survival.  Catriona Clemmesen, Rüdiger Voss, Hannes Baumann and Hans-Harald Hinrichsen, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University (IFM-GEOMAR), Dept. Fishery Biology, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany, cclemmesen@gso.uri.edu

2:20-2:40         The development of an Ocean Groundfish Observatory.  Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds,  University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology, Department of Fisheries Oceanography, jmiksis@umassd.edu

2:40-3:10        Selecting fishing communities for detailed social impact assessment.* Sarah Smith and Richard Pollnac, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI  and Julia Olson, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, ssmith29@mail.uri.edu

3:10-3:30         An at sea experiment to test the performance of a haddock separator trawl in Closed Area I on Georges Bank.  David Martins, UMASS Dartmouth, SMAST, New Bedford, MA, dmartins@umassd.edu

* Denotes student papers.