Oregon Chapter Annual Meeting Highlights
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
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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