7627

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7627
• Author: Desert Fishes Council ‎(Edwin Pister, e.
• Title: Proceedings of the Desert Fishes Council, Volume XIX - the nineteenth annual symposium.
• USFW Year: 1987.
• USFW - Doc Type: November 1987.
• Copyright Material: NO

FORWORD
For the third time since 1980, the Council met in Mexico, this time at
E1 Centro Ecol6gico de Sonora in Hermosillo. It was generally agreed
that the Nineteenth Annual Symposium was the most successful in its
history. Of 84 registrants., 28 were Mexican scientists or students,
and of 27 universities and research institutions, 10 were from Mexico.
Fifty technical papers were presented, and 17 were from Mexican students
and researchers traveling from as far as Cancun in the Yucatan Peninsula,
Mexico City, Baja California, and Nuevo Le6n. Both student paper awards
were won by Mexican nationals. The Carl L. Hubbs Award, for the best
student paper, was won by Francisco Abarca, a graduate student at Arizona
State University, The Frances Hubbs Miller Award, for the best paper
presented by a Mexican student, was awarded to Carlos Ch6ivez Toledo of
La Escuela Superior de Ecologia, Hermosillo. Abstracts of both papers
are included in these Proceedings. The formation of a Mexican Ichthyological
Society in 1987, with its first meeting held in La Paz, B.C.S., in November,
1988, will do much to expedite ongoing efforts to preserve native fishes
within Mexico.
Scientists from both nations work together toward a common goal of preserving
aquatic ecosystems and their associated life forms throughout the North American
Continent, with minimum emphasis placed on the political boundaries which our
flora and fauna did very well without until Man's very recent appearance. It
is upon this philosophical foundation that the Council continues to build as
it approaches the end of its second decade.
Phil Pister
Bishop, California
10 November, 1988