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Monday October 1

Registration 7-8 pm; posters up
Steering Committee meeting 7:30 pm

Tuesday October 2

7:00-8:00 Registration; posters up

8:00-8:30 Welcome: Allan Campbell, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture for PEI
and Jim Jones, Regional Director General, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Gulf Region

8:30-9:00 Plenary speaker
History of the tunicate invasions in PEI, their impact on the cultured mussel industry and mitigation strategies employed since 1998  
MacNair N. ¹, Mills C. ¹, Gillis B.¹, Smith M.¹, Landry T. ², Locke A. ², Smith A.², Davidson J.³, Warris P. ^4
1Prince Edward Island Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Aquaculture Section, PO Box 2000,Charlottetown,PE, Canada C1A 7N8; ² Fisheries and Oceans Canada, P.O. Box 5030, Moncton, NB, E1C 9B6; ³ AVC Address; ⁴PEI Aquaculture Alliance

9:30-12:00 Boat tour with lunch, leader Neil MacNair

12:00-1:00 Break

1:00-5:00 Taxonomic Workshop, leaders Gretchen and Charles Lambert

5:00-6:00 Break

6:00-8:00 Poster Session and light refreshments

Wednesday October 3

7:30-8:25 Continental breakfast

8:25-8:30 Welcome and announcements: Mary Carman
“Biology, Systematics and Biogeography”; Session Head: Andrew Bagnall

8:30-9:00 Plenary speaker
The invasion process: Why it's so hard to predict the next sea squirt invasion
Carlton, James T.
Maritime Studies Program, Williams College - Mystic Seaport, Mystic CT 06355

9:00-9:20 Adventures of a sea squirt sleuth: the remarkable story of Didemnum sp., a global ascidian invader
Lambert, Gretchen¹ and Stefaniak, Lauren^2
1University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, Friday Harbor, WA 98250.Mailing address: 12001 11^th Ave. NW, Seattle, WA 98177; ²Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, 1080 Shennecossett Rd, Groton, CT 06340

9:20-9:40 Genetic conspecificity of worldwide populations of the colonial tunicate, Didemnum sp.
Stefaniak, Lauren¹, Lambert, Gretchen ², Gittenberger, Adriaan ³, Zhang, Huan ¹, Lin, Senjie ¹, Robert B. Whitlatch^1
1Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT; ²University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, Friday Harbor, WA; ³National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands

9:40-10:00 Seasonal water temperature cycles and the recruitment of larvae of the colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. in New England coastal and offshore waters
Valentine, Page C.¹, Carman, Mary R.², Dijkstra, Jennifer³, Blackwood, Dann S.¹, Westerman, Erica.³, Harris, Larry. G.^3
1U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA 02543; ²Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543; ³University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03826

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-10:50 Global dispersion and phylogeography of Styela plicata (Leseuer, 1823) (Tunicata, Ascidiacea)
Barros, R. C. and Rocha, R. M.
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Zoologia. CP 19020, 81.531-980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

10:50-11:10 Styela clava - a new threat to the Mediterranean shellfish industry?
Davis, Martin H., and Davis, Mary E.
Fawley Biofouling Services, 45, Megson Drive, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. PO13 8BA, UK

11:10-11:30 Sea squirts in Brudenell estuary: Documenting the invasion
Ramsay, Aaron¹, Davidson, Jeff¹, Landry, Thomas², Arsenault, Garth^1
1Department of Health Management, Atlantic Veterinary College, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3; ²Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moncton, NB E1C 9B6

11:30-11:50 Growth of the colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. under different environmental conditions (depth, salinity, coastal land use patterns)
Bullard, Stephan G.¹ and Whitlatch, Robert B.^2
1University of Hartford, Hillyer College, 200 Bloomfield Ave, West Hartford CT 06117 USA
²University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, 1080 Shennecossett Rd, Groton CT 06340 USA

11:50-12:10 Developing a study of the didemnid - mytilid epibiotic relationship
Auker, Linda A.
Department of Zoology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824

12:10-1:10 Lunch

“Ecology and Genetics”; Session Head: Peter Warris

1:10-1:40 Plenary speaker
Invasive ascidians: conservation challenges and ecological opportunities
John J. Stachowicz
Department of Evolution and Ecology and Bodega Marine Lab, University of California, Davis 95616 USA

1:40-2:00 Settlement and post-settlement interactions determine the distribution of invasive and native ascidians
Rius, Marc¹, Marshall, Dustin J.², Turon, Xavier^1
1Departament de Biologia Animal, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; ²Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, 4072, Queensland, Australia

2:00-2:20 A tale of two seas: ecological aspects of the ascidian community along the coast of Israel
Shenkar, Noa and Loya, Yossi
Department of Zoology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

2:20-2:40 Untangling temperature tolerance discrepancies between growth, abundance, and recruitment in Botryllus schlosseri and Botrylloides violaceus
Westerman, Erica L.¹, Whitlatch, R.B.², Dijkstra, J.³, Harris, L.G.³, Bolker, J.A.^3
1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, ²Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340, ³Zoology Department, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824

2:40-3:00 Predicting the possible geographic distribution of the colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. on the Georges Bank fishing grounds (Gulf of Maine) based on water temperatures required for the development and release of larvae and on substrate availability
Valentine, Page C.¹, Collie, Jeremy S.², Reid, Robert N.^3
1U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA 02543; ²University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882; ³National Marine Fisheries Service, Sandy Hook, NJ 07732

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-3:50 Potential impacts of predation on survival and growth of non-indigenous tunicate species in British Columbia, Canada
Epelbaum, A.¹*, Pearce, C.M.¹, Therriault, T.W.^1
1 Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N7;
*NSERC Visiting Fellow

3:50-4:10 Invasive species alter the maintenance of biological diversity
Dijkstra, Jennifer and Harris, Larry
Department of Zoology, University of New Hampshire, Spaulding Hall, 46 College Road Durham, New Hampshire 03824

4:10-4:30 The invasive colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. on Georges Bank ― Ecological effects and genetic identification
Lengyel, Nicole L.^a, Collie, Jeremy S.^a, Valentine, Page C.^b
aGraduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA; ^bU.S. Geological Survey, 384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA

4:30-6:00 Break

6:00-8:00 Banquet Supper and Poster Session

Thursday October 4

7:30-8:30 Continental breakfast

“Impacts”; Session Head: Jeff Davidson

8:30-9:00 Plenary speaker
Predicting the next one: or, trying to be the scientist who cried tunicate (but at the right place and time)
Locke, Andrea
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, P.O. Box 5030, Moncton, NB, E1C 9B6

9:00-9:20 Extent of ecological interactions between the vase tunicate (Ciona intestinalis) and the farmed blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) in Nova Scotia, Canada
Daigle, Rémi M. and Herbinger, C.M.
Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

9:20-9:40 Didemnum sp. as an agent of change: Can this be detected regionally?
Judith Pederson
MIT Sea Grant College Program, 292 Main Street, E38-300, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

9:40-10:00 Impacts of the invasive tunicate Didemnum sp. on scallop recruitment
Morris, James¹, Carman, Mary R.², Hoagland, K. Elaine³, Green-Beach, Emma⁴, Karney, Richard^4
1 National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, 101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, NC 28516; ² Geology and Geophysics Dept., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543; ³ IM Systems Group, 3401 Bexhill Pl, Kensington, MD 20895 and National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, 1305 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD 20910; ⁴ Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group, Inc., Oak Bluffs, MA 02557

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-10:50 Worldwide genetic structure of Microcosmus squamiger: contrasting genetic diversity patterns between introduced and native populations
Rius, Marc¹, Pascual, Marta², Turon, Xavier^1
1Departament de Biologia Animal, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; ²Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

10:50-11:10 International DNA bank for ascidians
Stewart-Clark, Sarah¹ and Davidson, Jeff^2
1 Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Ave, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, C1A 4P3;
² Department of Health Management, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Ave, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, C1A 4P3

11:10-11:30 Inter-specific ascidian overgrowth in New England coastal habitats
Dijkstra, Jennifer¹ and Carman, Mary R.^2
1 Department of Zoology, University of New Hampshire, Spaulding Hall, 46 College Road, Durham, New Hampshire 03824; ² Geology and Geophysics Dept., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543

11:30-1:00 Lunch

“Risk Assessment and Management”; Session Head: Art Smith

1:00-1:20 Incorporating the New Zealand Tunicate Treatment Technology into a tunicate management strategy for Indian Point Marine Farms (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Carver, Claire E. and Mallet, A.L.
Mallet Research Services, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2X 3H3

1:20-1:40 Management of sea squirts in New Zealand
Bissmire, Sonya E. and Stratford, Peter J.
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

1:40-2:00 Hull fouling and overland transport of boats on trailers as vectors of spread of clubbed tunicate (Styela clava)
Darbyson, E.¹*, Hanson, J. Mark², Locke, A², Willison, J. H. M.^1
1Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1 and ² Gulf Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, P.O. Box 5030, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, E1C 9B6; * Present address: Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 1B1

2:00-2:20 The temporal and spatial development of an infestation of Styela clava on mussel farms in Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island
Arsenault, Garth and Davidson, Jeff
Department of Health Management, Atlantic Veterinary College, Charlottetown, PE, C1A 4P3

2:20-2:40 Rapid nationwide surveys for Styela clava in New Zealand: delimitation methods and detection probabilities
Gust, Nick and Graeme, Inglis
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

2:40-3:10 Coffee Break

3:10-3:30 Market potential for Styela clava, a non-indigenous pest invading New England coastal waters
Karney, Richard C.¹ and Rhee, Walter Y.^2
1Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group. Inc. Oak Bluffs, MA 02557; ² Honolulu, HI

3:30-3:50 Mussel processing plants a potential vector for invasive ascidians?
Bourque, Daniel¹, Barkhouse, Carla¹, Landry, Thomas¹, Mills, Chris², LeBlanc, Angeline R.¹, Davidson, Jefferey³, Miron, Gilles^4
1Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moncton, N.B. E1C 9B6; ²Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Charlottetown, P.E.I. C1A 7N3; ³Atlantic Veterinary College, Charlottetown, P.E.I. C1A 4P3; ⁴Département de biologie, Université de Moncton, Moncton, N.B. E1A 3E9

3:50-4:10 Mitigation strategies for Styela clava found on mussel seed collectors
Gill, Kim L.¹, Davidson, J.¹, Landry, T.², Stryhn, H.¹, and MacNair, N.^3
1Atlantic Veterinary College, Department of Health Management, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, P.E.I., C1A 4P3; ²Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Oceans and Science Branch, Aquatic Health Division, Gulf Fisheries Centre, P.O. Box 5030, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, E1C 9B6;³Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, P.O. Box 2000, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, C1A 7N8.

4:10-5:00 Open Forum; Moderator: Art Smith

Questions to be discussed:

1. What invasive tunicate species are present in your area and what impact have they had on aquaculture operations?
2. What management practices have been put in place in an attempt to control the further spread of tunicates and how successful have the practices been?
3. What (if any) mitigation techniques have been developed to control the fouling and how successful they have been?

Close of conference 

Poster Session: Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
(in alphabetical order)

Lobsters and crabs as potential vectors for tunicate dispersal in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada
Bernier, Renée Y., Locke, A., Hanson, J. Mark
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Gulf Fisheries Centre, 343 Université avenue, P.O. Box 5030, Moncton, New-Brunswick, E1C 9B6, Canada

Discovery of inhibitors of tunicate larval settlement
Bunyajetpong, S.¹ and Kerr, R.^2
1Biomedical Sciences, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE C1A4P3; ²Department of Chemistry, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE C1A4P3

Monitoring the distribution of indigenous and non-indigenous ascidians and macroinvertebrates in harbours around Newfoundland
Callahan, A.G.¹, Deibel, D.¹, McKenzie, C.H.², Sargent P.^1
1Ocean Sciences Centre, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland Labrador, Canada A1C 5S7; ²Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John's, Newfoundland Labrador, Canada A1C 5X1

Can the non-indigenous common periwinkle snail Littorina littorea be used as a biologic control for the invasive tunicate Didemnum sp.?
Carman, Mary R.¹, Allen, Hannah M.², Tyrrell, Megan C.³, Byers, James E.^4
1Geology and Geophysics Dept., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543; ² Falmouth Academy, Falmouth, MA 02541; ³ Mashpee, MA 02649; ⁴ Department of Zoology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824

Tunicate faunas at two North Atlantic-New England islands: Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Block Island, Rhode Island
Carman, Mary R.¹, Hoagland, K. Elaine², Green-Beach, Emma³, Grunden, David W.^4
1 Geology and Geophysics Dept., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; ² IM Systems Group, 3401 Bexhill Pl, Kensington, MD 20895 and National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, 1305 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD 20910; ³ Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group, Inc., Oak Bluffs, MA 02557; ⁴ Town of Oak Bluffs Shellfish Department, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557

Styela clava Herdman, 1881 or 1882?
Davis, Martin H. and Davis, Mary E.
Fawley Biofouling Services, 45, Megson Drive, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. PO13 8BA, UK

Invasive tunicates in Prince Edward Island estuarine systems: the use of colonization plates as a community-based monitoring tool
Desreux, Joe¹, Quijon, Pedro¹, Davidson, Jeff^2
1Department of Biology and ²Department of Health Management-AVC, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, C1A 4P3, Canada

Effects of temperature and salinity on survival and growth of non-indigenous botryllid tunicates
Epelbaum, A.¹*, Pearce, C.M.¹, Therriault, T.W.^1
1 Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N7;
* NSERC Visiting Fellow

Mitigation strategies for Styela clava fouling on mussel seed collectors
Gill, Kim L.¹, Davidson, J.¹, Landry, T.², Stryhn, H.¹, MacNair, N.^3
1Atlantic Veterinary College, Department of Health Management, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, C1A 4P3; ²Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Oceans and Science Branch, Aquatic Health Division, Gulf Fisheries Centre, P.O. Box 5030, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, E1C 9B6; ³Department of Fisheries, and Aquaculture, P.O. Box 2000, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, C1A 7N8

Localised patterns of connectivity for the invasive sea-squirt, Styela clava
Goldstien, Sharyn J., Schiel, David R., Gemmell, Neil J.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Biotic and abiotic regulation of Botrylloides violaceus populations along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington, U.S.A.
Grey, Erin K.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Didemnum sp. in North America:Can anything eat it? Will it do them any good?
Guida, Vincent G., Candelmo, A., Wieczorek, D., Cleary, T.H., Williams, S., Leimburg, E.
NOAA, NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, J.J. Howard Laboratory, Highlands, NJ

One ring to divide them all: mitochondrial genomics unveils two cryptic species in Ciona intestinalis
Iannelli, Fabio¹, Pesole, Graziano², Sordino, Paolo³, Gissi, Carmela^1
1Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, UniversitÀ di Milano, Italy; ²Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare “E. Quagliariello”, UniversitÀ di Bari, Italy; ³Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Stazione Zoologica “A. Dohrn”, Naples, Italy

Non-indigenous ascidians in the Mediterranean Sea
Izquierdo, Andrés¹, Díaz-Valdés, M.² and Ramos-Esplá, A.A.^1
1Centro de Investigación Marina de Santa Pola, Ayuntamiento de Santa Pola-Universidad de Alicante, 03130 Santa Pola (Alicante, Spain); ²Departamento de Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada, Universidad de Alicante, 03080 Alicante (Spain)

Hierarchical genetic structure of invasive tunicates
Lejeusne, Christophe, Cristescu, Melania, MacIsaac, Hugh
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER), 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, ON, Canada N9B 3P4

Secondary dispersal in the invasive ascidian Styela clava at the North Sea shore
Liebich, Viola and Reise, K.
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Wadden Sea Station Sylt, Hafenstrasse 43, 25992 List, Germany

Environmental consequences of tunicate management practices in estuaries of Prince Edward Island
Locke, Andrea¹ and MacNair, N.G.^2
1Fisheries and Oceans Canada, P.O. Box 5030, Moncton, NB, E1C 9B6; ²PEI Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Charlottetown, PEI

Developing a rapid response plan for Didemnum: a model plan for Prince Edward Island.
Locke, Andrea¹ and Smith, A.H.^2
1Fisheries and Oceans Canada, P.O. Box 5030, Moncton, NB, E1C 9B6; ²Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Charlottetown, PEI

Getting along with the tunicates? Co-occurring mobile invertebrates on blue mussel lines colonized by invasive tunicates in eastern Prince Edward Island.
Lutz, Vanessa¹, Quijon, Pedro¹, Davidson, Jeff^2
1Department of Biology and ²Department of Health Management-AVC, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE, C1A 4P3, Canada

Potential impacts of an ascidian invader (Didemnum sp.) on seafloor communities in southern New England, USA
Mercer, J. and Whitlatch, R.B.
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340

The new European on-line journal “Aquatic Invasions”: services for marine biodiversity related information systems
Panov, Vadim¹ and Gollasch, Stephan^2
1 St. Petersburg State University, Russia; ² GoConsult, Hamburg, Germany

Tunicate nanocrystals as a novel nanomaterial for the preparation of ultra-strong composites, optical coatings, and cell culture platforms
Podsiadlo, P.¹; Sui, L.²; Shim, B.¹; Elkasabi, E.¹; Burgardt, P.¹; Lee, J.⁶; Miryala, A.¹; Kusumaatmaja, W.¹; Carman, M. R.⁵; Shtein, M.²; Kieffer, J.²; Lahann, J.^1,2,3; Kotov, N. A.^1,2,4
1Department of Chemical Engineering, ²Department of Materials Science and Engineering, ³Program in Macromolecular Science and Engineering, ⁴Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2136.
⁵Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
⁶Department of Nanomedical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea

Introduced ascidians along the coast of South Africa: water temperature as a predictor of their geographical distribution
Rius, Marc¹, Griffiths, Charles², Turon, Xavier^1
1Departament de Biologia Animal, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; ²Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosh, Cape Town 7700, South Africa

Invasive tunicates in oyster cultivation: potential to colonize the natural substrate
Rocha, R.M. and Baptista, M. S.
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Zoologia. CP 19020, 81.531-980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Seasonal water temperature cycles and the recruitment of larvae of the colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. in New England coastal and offshore waters
Valentine, Page C.¹, Carman, Mary R.², Dijkstra, Jennifer³, Blackwood, Dann S.¹, Westerman, Erica.³, Harris, Larry. G.^3
1U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA 02543; ²Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543; ³University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03826

Predicting the possible geographic distribution of the colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. on the Georges Bank fishing grounds (Gulf of Maine) based on water temperatures required for the development and release of larvae and on substrate availability
Valentine, Page C.¹, Collie, Jeremy S.², Reid, Robert N.^3
1U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA 02543; ²University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882; ³National Marine Fisheries Service, Sandy Hook, NJ 07732

Development of genetic markers in the invasive tunicate Ciona intestinalis
Vercaemer, B.¹, Sephton, D.¹, Nicolas, J-M.¹, Howes, S.^1,2, Herbinger, C.^2
1 Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NSB2Y 4A2; ² Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4J1

Pilot general and targeted surveillance program for tunicates in Nova Scotia; April 2006 - August 2007
Vercaemer, B.¹ Sephton, D.¹, Nicolas, J-M. ¹, Howes, S. ^1,2, Locke, A. ³, Landry, T.³, Bagnall, A. ⁴, Mullen, J.^5
1 Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4A2; ² Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; ³ Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Gulf Fisheries Centre, Moncton, NB; ⁴ Aquaculture Division, Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Halifax, NS; ⁵ Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS