Using Microsatellite DNA Variation Tim L. King, W. Bane Schill, and Barbara A. Lubinski 7. Irish Investigations of the Molecular Genetics of Atlantic Salmon T. F. Cross 8. Population and Aquatic Habitat Resource Inventory for Catchment-based Management of Atlantic Salmon Philip McGinnity 9. Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture in the United States Mary Colligan and Ed T. Baum 1 . As part of President Clinton's 1995 peacemaking efforts in Northern Ireland, the late Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown signed an agreement committing NOAA and Ireland's Marine Institute to develop collaborative projects involving research, technology, sustainable development, protection, and management of marine and coastal resources.
Considerable interest exists in both countries to collaborate on Atlantic salmon research.
This symposium will provide a forum in which investigators from the USA, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland will discuss their work on Atlantic salmon ecology, management, aquaculture, and genetics. Following the presentations, a roundtable discussion will be held to identify potential areas of collaboration. These discussions will lead to development of a collaborative research plan for Atlantic salmon. Over the past two decades we have seen unprecedented declines in salmon in the North Atlantic, which have been attributed to changing survival and maturation patterns. Irish and US stocks, though at different levels of abundance and condition, do share many similarities in that they are from the southern end of the range and have similar life history traits.