5 May 2009
One of the prestigious Buckland Lectures will this year be held to coincide with a meeting of the Federation’s Executive Committee.
The meeting will be held in the NFFO’s York offices on Thursday 18th June at 10.30 am.
As always, the Executive Committee meeting is open to any NFFO member who wishes to attend as an observer and to contribute to the discussions, subject to the Chairman’s discretion.
The meeting will include the 2009 Buckland Lecture, which this year will be given by Dr David Righton from CEFAS. The title of the lecture is “From Hatching to Catching: a modern understanding of a year in the life of cod”.
Some members of the Executive Committee, in the context of the ICES benchmark meetings in Copenhagen, have had the opportunity to preview the electronic tagging work on which much of the lecture is based and found it fascinating, especially in relation to migration patterns and changing positions of cod in the water column.
An agenda and support papers for the meeting will be circulated in due course.