Upcoming Meetings

From October 11, 1991 (update #11)

ST. LOUIS - A Symposium on Freshwater Mussel Conservation and Management will be held Oct. 11-14, 1992, at the Embassy Suites Hotel here. Sessions will be devoted to regulations, commercial harvest, conservation, sampling methodology, data management and environmental awareness. For further information, contact Kurt Welke, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 111 W. Dunn St., Prairie du Chien, WI 53281, phone (608) 326-0233.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - "Introductions and Transfers of Marine Species: Achieving a Balance between Economic Development and Resource Protection" is the theme for a conference and workshop to be held Oct. 30-Nov. 2 here at the Marriott Resort Hotel on the Palmetto Dunes Plantation. Conference sessions will include historical perspectives; international, national, regional and state management strategies; socioeconomic and ecologic impacts, and current federal efforts regarding introduced marine species. Organized by the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, the conference is sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA; Cooperative State Research Service, Office of Aquaculture, USDA; the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, and the Sea Grant College Programs of Oregon, Texas, Georgia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Virginia. For more information, contact Rick DeVoe, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, 287 Meeting St., Charleston, SC 29401, phone (803) 727-2078.

ID: 19911011-10.

The Zebra Mussel Update was a 4- to 8-page quarterly national newsletter published by the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute from May 1990 through May 1997. The ZMU documented the spread of the zebra mussel -- an exotic nuisance mussel -- through North America's freshwater environments, especially the Great Lakes, and on efforts to control it.