SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT   Surely that without having given ourselves great notice, the time has advanced and we are now one year away from CIAC’09 Symposium. It is about time to return to contact you through the second informative announcement of this event. The organizing committee has been advancing in the management of this meeting and already it has outlined the most important items. Thus, we are pleased to announce you that the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) become a formal sponsor of our meeting and have granted us with a special issue in ICES Journal of Marine Science. We want to thank Andy Payne and Adi Kellermann for their valuable help and diligence concerning that issue. The diversity of topics that are going to be presented at CIAC'09 provides opportunities to many specialists, and simultaneously offers them the possibility of hear about other areas of the biology and ecology of the cephalopods that we may not be familiar with. That means a good opportunity of scientific enrichment. Therefore, we expect many participants in this event. We think that, for all but especially for our colleagues from Central and South America, it is this unsurpassable opportunity. On the other hand, as always occurred in these symposia, this event offers an excellent occasion to meet old friends and colleagues and also an opportunity to meet young scientists who are currently studying cephalopods. The Secretariat of the congress has informed us that it has received some subscriptions. We expect an increasing subscription from now to the deadlines already established. Regarding this issue, we have to inform that the Organising Committee decided to extend one month and a half the deadline for submission of abstracts. Therefore, the closing date for the submission of abstracts of oral presentations and posters will be 15th March 2009. This is quite about what we want to inform you in this second announcement. There will be other one with more detailed information in May, 2009. We are looking forward to seeing you in Vigo!