News Bites – May 2016
“Glacier National Park reshuffles native trout” Can Lake Ontario and Michigan “outswim” Lake Huron’s fate? Why do sharks have jelly in their head? Diving deep
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“Glacier National Park reshuffles native trout” Can Lake Ontario and Michigan “outswim” Lake Huron’s fate? Why do sharks have jelly in their head? Diving deep
The call for papers for the 1st International Congress is now open. The theme of the congress is Conversations to Promote a Global Trout Conservation Network.
AFS Executive Director Doug Austen recently received two prestigious awards to honor his distinguished career in fisheries conservation and management: the Gerald H. Cross Alumni Leadership
Following a very successful symposium on standard sampling for freshwater fish during the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting in Portland in 2015, AFS members Ian
By Benjamin J. Clemens President, AFS— Oregon Chapter A total of 362 scientists, administrators, fish aficionados, and students attended the 52nd annual meeting of the Oregon
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the “essential fish habitat” mandate in the Magnuson Stevens Act, the primary marine fisheries management legislation. AFS Policy staff
By Helen Neville, Dan Dauwalter & Mary Peacock Freshwater fishes living in streams and rivers can be affected strongly by isolation, which causes a disproportionate
By Troy D. Tuckey and Mary C. Fabrizio The spatial and temporal extent of summer hypoxia (dissolved oxygen [DO] concentration ≤ 2 mg/L) in Chesapeake
Along the West Coast, lingcod fish are top predators — voracious eaters that aren’t picky about where their next meal comes from. But lingcod in the Pacific Ocean used to be overfished, to the point where managers created protected areas for these fish and other depleted groundfish species, such as yelloweye and canary rockfish. Photo credit: Ed Bierman
Several AFS notables among keynote speakers The 7th World Fisheries Congress opened in Busan, Korea, on Monday, May 23rd, bringing together more than 1,300 international