USM's Center for Fisheries Research and Development’s (CFRD) annual Fisheries Forum will be held Monday, Nov. 4, from 6-&:30 p.m. The forum will be presented as a Gunter Library Science Café.

The Science Café can be attended in person at the Caylor Building auditorium on the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) Halstead Campus, 703 East Beach Drive, Ocean Springs) or virtually through Facebook live. https://www.facebook.com/usmmarineeducationcenter 

The theme of the Fisheries Forum “The Secret Lives of Tripletail and Cobia.”  Talks will be given by scientists from USM’s CFRD and Thad Cochran Aquaculture Center, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources and the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission. Topics include movement trends, growth and maturity and aquaculture efforts of these important sport fish species. 

The forum is organized and hosted by the CFRD as part of the CFRD Cooperative Sport Fish Tag and Release Program grant funded by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, Sport Fish Restoration Program.

Science Cafe is sponsored by the MS-AL Sea Grant, with USM’s Marine Education Center providing tech support.

For more information about this Science Café click the link here:  GCRL Science Café | Gulf Coast Research Laboratory | The University of Southern Mississippi (usm.edu)