Southern Flounder Symposium
OCCURING EARLY 2024
Details forthcoming, please check back.
Purpose
A day-long event to provide an opportunity for stakeholders, researchers and North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF) staff to discuss various topics related to Southern Flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma). Though Southern Flounder represent a coast-wide stock along the south Atlantic U.S. coast, this symposium will focus on North Carolina centric research and management.
The goals of the North Carolina Southern Flounder Symposium:
- Allow stakeholders to engage with each other, as well as researchers and NCDMF staff, on topics related to Southern Flounder.
- Provide stakeholders opportunity to both learn about and contribute to ongoing flounder research.
Potential Topics
Topics will be finalized closer to the symposium, as speakers are secured, but potential topics covered could include:
Life History
Movement and Migration through tagging work
How habitat and water quality influence Southern Flounder
Citizen Science and Involvement: What can the public do to help?
Poster
Session
Additionally, there will be a Stakeholder and Management Panel Discussion, to discuss the future of the flounder fishery, the importance of flounder to stakeholders, and understanding management decisions.