On fairly short notice the China Society of Fisheries (CSF) invited me to Beijing to attend their annual conference and help them to celebrate their 40th anniversary. At their plenary session, on behalf of the American Fisheries Society, I congratulated CSF on their anniversary and encouraged them to join the World Council of Fisheries Societies, which they plan to do. I also mentioned the cooperative relationship that our two societies have had in sponsoring the 3rd and 4th World Fisheries Congresses, and I promoted a continuation of such a cooperative relationship on other fisheries issues of mutual interest Because all of the presentations at the conference were in Chinese, I cannot report on the content of the meeting 1 only attended the plenary session because with the technical session being entirely in Chinese, I was not going to learn anything with my Chinese vocabulary of about 10 words, which the Chinese didn't seem to understand anyway However, from some of their English printed materiai, I thought readers of Fisheries might be interested in the structure and mission of CSF in comparison to that of AFS.
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