Report of the Working Group on Marine Shellfish Culture (WGMASC)

The ICES Working Group on Marine Shellfish Culture [WGMASC] held its third meeting in La Rochelle (France) from the 13–15 May 2005 at the Centre de Recherche sur les Ecosystemes marins et Aquacoles (CREMA), IFREMER and CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research).

Special thanks are due to the administrative staff and head of CREMA, who made every effort to arrange an adequate venue at the lab, even during a weekend. The IFREMER Nantes Centre pro-vided a van for transportation from downtown to the lab.

The meeting was opened at 9:30 hrs on Friday 13 May. The Chair welcomed the participants, in-cluding two members attending a WGMASC meeting for the first time: Per Dolmer (Danish insti-tute for Fisheries research, Denmark) and Jose Fuentes (Consellería de Pesca e Asuntos Maríti-mos, Galicia, Spain).