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President's Message 2018 (1) President’s Message Greetings and Happy New Year from unfamiliar with us as a group. While on your travels to other Maine! The 110th Annual Meeting of meetings around the globe, spread the word about NSA and the National Shellfisheries Association encourage people to become members. Word of mouth is probably in Seattle, WA is rapidly approaching. the most effective means for our organization to flourish. If you This year’s meeting is shaping up to be are one of the first three people to recruit five new members, you one of our biggest yet and the schedule will receive a FREE REGISTRATION to our 2020 Annual it jam packed with great sessions Meeting. Just make sure to let our Secretariat, Linda Kallansrude, ranging from ‘Omics to HAB, and know who you recruited. from Climate Change to Disease. There will also be a few micro-workshops for those interested in diving deeper with It is never too early to look ahead to next year either. I, along with some hands-on practical examples in the world of Genomics, Sandy Shumway, are currently recruiting session organizers for Disease, and even the art of Gyotaku. We are set to close to Aquaculture 2019, our Triennial Meeting. The Triennial meetings 400 papers presented as well as some amazing plenary speakers can be intimidating for some that like the size of our annual to kick off each day (Peter Beninger, Donal Manahan, Suzanne meetings, but they should not be missed due to the great Williams, and Gary Wikfors). If you have not yet registered for opportunity to network with individuals within the industries we the 2018 Annual Meeting, you still have time. Seattle is an aim to assist with our work. Not only are the Triennial meetings NSA favorite for meeting locations. There is plenty to do and intellectually stimulating, they are financially stimulating to the see when you are not being wowed by the presenters. Be sure NSA coffers. Your attendance at these meetings helps the to head to the Pike’s Place Fish Market, but watch out for flying Association as an entity remain on the stable financial footing that fish. We are happy to have our second annual Scallop Gallop we are currently on. on Wednesday March 21st, so bring your running shoes for a fun 5K around downtown Seattle. As I am writing this, I was With that, I look forward to seeing you all in Seattle for what is informed that our hotel block is full at the Renaissance, but sure to be one of our largest meetings on record. there are a number of other hotels within walking distance that should be able to take care of your room needs. As always, our Student Endowment Fund auction is a night not to be missed. If Steven Allen, President in your travels you see something that might fit the nature of the auction please bring it along and drop it off at the meeting registration table. Like most non-profit organizations, NSA thrives on volunteers from within its membership who contribute their time to guarantee jobs are accomplished when needed. Take the periodical that you are currently reading, it is carefully created In this issue: by Leroy Creswell and Noreen Blaschik, who rely on members to contribute reviews, articles, and other news items. The In Memoriam: Susan Elizabeth Ford Student Awards Committee and Membership Committee are also great places for interested members to contribute. If you are a student member you can help the Association by Seattle Meeting Update volunteering some time with the Recruits. Think about where you might be able to help out and contact me or the appropriate Pacific Coast Section Committee Chair. Our members are the lifeblood of our organization and without them (you) the Association will Crassostrea vs. Magallana struggle. Being an active member does not only mean serving on a committee, but also promoting NSA to those who may be National Shellfisheries Association Quarterly Newsletter 2018(1) Susan Elizabeth Ford 1942 – 2017 Susan Ford passed away on December 5, 2017, quietly leaving a legacy in the field of molluscan pathology and in the National Shellfisheries Association. Her pursuit of knowledge was patient and persistent. Her expertise was sought by academics, regulators and industry members around the world. Susan was an asset to NSA throughout her career, regularly volunteering to ensure the Association remained functional, stable, and successful. She organized sessions and special events at Annual Meetings such as the Centennial Roundtable at our 100th Anniversary. She served as on the Editorial Board of JSR for many years and was an Editor of the Quarterly Newsletter. Most recently and perhaps most significantly, Susan co-chaired the Publications Committee with John Kreauter. In this role, she shepherded JSR into the digital age, negotiating a favorable relationship with BioOne to publish JSR online. A Thurlow Nelson Award winner herself (1972), Susan often judged student presentations and routinely mentored students and younger scientists. The Association recognized her contributions with both the David H Wallace Award (2004) and as an Honored Life Member (2012). A full 'In Memoriam' will appear in a future issue of JSR, and there will be a memorial presentation at the 110th Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. Her obituary can be found at https://wydaily.com/2017/12/08/ obits-164101/ Dave Bushek MEMBERSHIP UPDATE Last year Maria Rosa received the prize of a free registration for the upcoming Seattle conference by recruiting new members. The award for membership recruitment this year has gone unclaimed! There is no easier way to earn free registration - just convince five of your friends and colleagues to join the NSA. It’s an easy sell - access to the Journal of Shellfish Research (print and on-line), the Quarterly Newsletter, reduced registration at annual conferences, and a strong and friendly group of like-minded individuals to share their interests in all things shellfish. There will be an influx of new members who join us in Seattle, but many of them will be transient - students who go on to other things, local shellfish folks who attend for only a few specific sessions, and others that, for various reasons, will not become regular, long-term members. This is common with all meetings. The NSA needs a strong membership base not only to sustain current efforts, but to be able to expand offerings to the membership, especially students, in the future. If every member recruits just one new member, the NSA will double in size. It’s not that difficult, you all know someone (probably several people) with an interest in shellfish who are not currently members, or who perhaps let their membership lapse. Encourage your students and post-docs to become members. Carry a few membership brochures with you to relevant conferences. Take a few minutes to identify potential new members and then recruit them! And when you do, be sure to tell Linda Kallansrude to credit you with that new member — the first three people to recruit five new members will receive a free registration to our 2020 annual conference. Sandy Shumway National Shellfisheries Association Quarterly Newsletter 2018(1) 2 Crassostrea gigas or Magallana gigas: A Community-based Scientific Response Recently, the oyster research, there is no operational definition of a genus, except that it should aquaculture, and trade be a monophyletic taxon) and one can question a number of communities were shaken up by specific issues in the work of Salvi et al. (as is done by Bayne et the publication of two papers by al. 2017), but the main point I wish to make here is that Daniele Salvi et al. (2014, 2017) taxonomists should always try as much as possible to maintain in which the genus Crassostrea nomenclatural stability and thus should wonder about the was split into three different relevance and added value of introducing a new taxonomy and its genera, such that the genus concomitant nomenclatural changes. As such taxonomists should, Crassostrea was shrunk to by default, act conservatively. In the present case of Crassostrea, include only the Atlantic species, while the Pacific species there simply is no added value to splitting this genus into three were assigned to the genera Talonostrea and Magallana. The separate genera, since the former Crassostrea clade remains consequence of this taxonomic action was that the well-known phylogenetically unaltered. On the contrary, by dividing Crassostrea gigas was rebaptized to Magallana gigas. This Crassostrea into three genera one complicates nomenclature for nomenclatural change was almost immediately endorsed and the users since now three generic names have to be remembered implemented by the “World Register of Marine and associated with the correct species. So, who gains from this? Species” (WoRMS), which could give the erroneous How does it help the users of Crassostrea taxonomy? Moreover, impression that from now of the name Crassostrea gigas one will always be able to divide a “genus” into subclades (up to should be abandoned in favour of Magallana gigas. Such a individual species), but is that a logical ground to give such rash nomenclatural change for this well-known species subclades a genus-level rank? Of course not, for there is no worldwide is, however, not necessary and, in my opinion, even general definition of what a genus really is (in fact it is just one ill-advised for it would destabilize a long-term use of a of the, many, human hierarchical classificatory categories to commonly accepted, unequivocal name. Luckily, this point is delimit clades). As such, the former genus Crassostrea is just as also recognized by WoRMS itself, since it does recognize the well acceptable as a genus, as are the three “genera” into which it name Crassostrea gigas as an “accepted, alternate was split.
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