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DSCC members will be attending or monitoring the following meetings.
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2007
5-9 March: FAO COFI (Rome)
9-21 March: UNICPOLOS PrepCom (NY)
23-27 April: UN Fish Stocks Agreement, Meeting of the Parties (NY)
25-30 June: UNICPOLOS (NY)
30 April-4 May: South Pacific RFMO Negotiations (Chile)
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Dr Elliott A. Norse
"We can always resume trawling but we can not put back 1,000 year-old ecosystems."
 Dr. Elliott A. Norse is President of Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) in Redmond, Washington USA, President of the Society for Conservation Biology's Marine Section and a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation.
After earning his B.S. with honors in biology, geology and music from Brooklyn College, he studied the ecology of blue crabs in the Caribbean for his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California and his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Iowa. To catch more blue crabs for his dissertation research, he went out on trawlers off Mexico and Colombia in the early 1970s, thus witnessing firsthand the extraordinary amount of bycatch from trawling operations.
In 1978 he began working on ocean policy at the US Environmental Protection Agency, then the President's Council on Environmental Quality (where he defined biological diversity as the goal of conservation), the Ecological Society of America, The Wilderness Society and The Ocean Conservancy, before founding MCBI in 1996.
His 130+ publications include Conserving Biological Diversity in Our National Forests (1986), Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest (1990), Global Marine Biological Diversity: A Strategy for Building Conservation into Decision Making (1993), the seminal paper on "Disturbance of the seabed by mobile fishing gear: A comparison with forest clearcutting" in Conservation Biology (1998), and Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity (2005, in press).
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