The Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science (WIOJMS) provides an avenue for the wide dissemination of high quality research generated in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region. This journal issue covers an interesting array of articles such as: A Ten-year Period of Daily Sea Surface Temperature at a Coastal Station in Reunion Island, Indian Ocean (July 1993 – April 2004): Patterns of Variability and Biological Responses, Accumulation of Copper and Zinc and their Effects on Growth and Maximum Quantum Yield of the Brown Macroalga Padina Gymnospora, Regional Feeding Patterns of the Longnose Lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833) of the Western Indian Ocean, The Dar es Salaam Seascape: A Case Study of an Environmental Management ‘Hotspot’and many more articles