The LFC proceedings will be published in a special volume of Scientia Marina. Participants making presentations at the conference are strongly encouraged to submit manuscripts for peer review in Scientia Marina. Publication of the volume is scheduled for the end of 2009. To achieve this, manuscripts must be submitted by October 15th, 2008 and should follow the Scientia Marina format. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS are given on the journal homepage: http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/

Authors intending to submit manuscripts to the LFC special volume are asked to inform Catriona Clemmesen.

Copies of the special volume will be distributed to all conference participants.