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Editorial

Welcome to the 16th issue of the Bulletin. In this issue, Steve Purcell et al. present the three-year ICLARM project on Optimal Release Strategies for Sea Cucumbers. This project has started its activities at SPC Noumea and aims to determine the best strategies for releasing sandfish (Holothuria scabra) into the wild for the purpose of restocking and stock enhancement of inshore Pacific fisheries.

Also in this issue, an article by Mike Trianni, from the CNMI Division of Fish and Wildlife, describes a sea cucumber fishery that took place between October 1995 and May 1996 on the island of Saipan. You will also find articles about the sexual reproduction and farming of larvae of a little-studied species in India and about Apostichopus japonicus larvae.

Abstracts of the sea cucumbers presentations made during the 6^th European Conference on Echinoderms in Banyuls (2001) and other press articles are also included in this issue.

Issue no. 26 of the Echinoderms Newsletter is now also available on the Web at www.nmnh.si.edu/iz/echinoderm.

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