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Newsletter Archive (May 2023 – current)

January 8, 2026: Endangered Species Act and WOTUS Comments, Crayfish Stock Assessment, Video Freshwater Fisheries Assessment Tool
December 15, 2025: 2026 Membership Renewal, 2026 Call for Sessions Now Open, Largest Ever Year-End Book Sale
November 18, 2025:Hybridization Thresholds for Native Species, Statistical Reporting that Resonates, Upcoming Events
October 30, 2025: Long Term Trout Angler Harvest Trends, Landsat Archive of Lake Surface Temperatures, Horseshoe Crab Recovery
October 17, 2025: Impacts of Federal Shutdown, Growth Patterns of Invasive Silver Carp, Find Your Fishing Buddy
September 26, 2025: 2026 Call for Sessions, Novel Fishway Design for Small-bodied Fish, New Online Course
September 12,2025: Award Winning Journal Articles, Annual Meeting Photos, Invasive Species Distribution Models
August 29, 2025: Tomorrows Catch Film Premiere, Sea Lamprey Control During Pandemic, Next Community Check-in
August 4, 2025: Annual Meeting in San Antonio: Know Before You Go
July 28, 2025: San Antonio Plenary Speakers, Clean Water Act Update, Short and Long-term Future of AFS
July 11, 2025: San Antonio Hotels, Passing of an AFS Past President, Return of Mekong Giant Catfish
June 24, 2025: Network on Fishbook, Annual Meeting Schedule, Hudson River Eel Project
June 17, 2025: AFS Policy Updates: Federal Land Sales in Senate Budget Bill
June 6, 2025: Early Registration Deadline Extended, Student Travel Awards, Draft Strategic Plan
May 22, 2025: Early Registration Deadline Approaching, Policy Updates, Baitfish Trade Webinar
May 15, 2025: AFS Policy Updates: ESA Habitat Comment Period, USGS Ecosystems Rally, The McClintock Letters
May 9, 2025: Spring Book Sale, Officer Election Results, Wates of the US Proposed Redefinition
April 24, 2025: A Resilient Fisheries Community, Is AI Your Fishy Friend, Great Lakes Webinar
April 11, 2025: San Antonio Annual Meeting Abstract Deadline Extension, ESA Testimony, Genetics Webinar
March 28, 2025: Fisheries Community Check-in, Live Sonar in Recreational Fisheries, Genetics Webinar
March 14, 2025: 2025 Call for Abstracts, Federal Workforce Resource Center, New Book on Fishes of Puerto Rico
February 28, 2025: 2025 Call for Abstracts, Joint Society Statement on Federal Workforce Cuts, Officer Candidate Podcasts
February 21, 2025: Special Edition on Federal Workforce Firings
February 11, 2025: 2025 Call for Award Nominations, Policy Priorities for New Administration, Black Bass 2025 Preview
January 27, 2025: 2025 Call for Sessions Deadline Extension, Stakeholder Engagement, Fisheries Job Interview Tips
January 10, 2025: 2025 Call for Sessions Deadline, Year-End Book Sale Ends Soon, rFAMS Webinar
December 9, 2025: 2025 Call for Sessions Now Open, Year-End Book Sale, Science Communications Webinar
November 22, 2024: 2025 Call for Sessions, FishAge, Black Friday Book Sale
November 13, 2024: 2025 Call for Sessions, Membership Renewal, Side-Scan Sonar
October 23, 2024: 2024 Award Winners, Honolulu Photos, Call for Committee Volunteers
October 7, 2024: Second Edition of Standard Methods for Sampling, FishAge Image Database, Cutting Edge Marine Fish Monitoring
September 6, 2024: Annual Meeting in Honolulu: Know Before You Go
August 26, 2024: Next AFS Executive Director Selected, Selenium Moderating Effects on Mercury in Fish, Call for Officer Nominations
August 6, 2024: Honolulu Service Projects, Razorback Sucker Migration Translocation, Communication Approaches to Improve Fisheries Management
July 18, 2024: Annual Meeting Early Registration Deadline, Reviews of Pacific Salmon Hatcheries, Lake Trout Recovery, and Cutthroat Trout Hybridization
July 1, 2024: Journal Impact Factors, ACE Act, Blackfin Tuna Life History
June 14, 2024: Inland Ghost Fishing, Brook Trout Response to Brown Trout Removal, Best Student Paper Competition
June 3, 2024: World Fish Migration Day, Science Communication Workshop, Revisiting Black Bass World Records
May 17: 2024: Policy Updates, Genetic Predictors of Population Resilience, Tyler Prize Awarded to Fisheries Scientists
May 2, 2024: Honolulu Abstracts Due Friday, Officer Election Results, Using eDNA to Detect Salmon
April 17, 2024: Abstract and Award Deadlines, Honolulu Meeting Registration, Bull Trout Translocation
April 1, 2024: Honolulu Abstract Submission Open, Great Lakes Future Fishers Initiative, Awards Deadline Extended
March 15, 2024: Officer Election, Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Recovery, Statistics Webinar
February 22, 2024: World Fisheries Congress 2024 – Know Before You Go
February 9, 2024: Honolulu Session Deadline, Steelhead Catch-and-release Mortality, King Mackerel Growth Modeling
January 26, 2024: New Soft-shell Clam Book, Native Lamprey Special Journal Section, Why Aren’t Salmon Populations Improving
January 12, 2024: Membership Renewal, Arctic Grayling Response to Temperature Increases, Book Sale Ends Soon
December 18, 2023: Annual Book Sale, Honolulu 2024 Session Submission Open, Fish Reproduction Terminology
December 6, 2023: Hutton Applications Open, WOTUS Call to Action, Angling for Blue Catfish with Sonar
November 9, 2023: Call for 2024 Sessions, Offshore Wind Energy, Chub Conservation, Instream Flow Training Center
October 25, 2023: Membership Renewal Open, WOTUS Update, New Journal Design, Northern Pike on Stringers
October 6, 2023: WFC Travel Award Deadline, Hatchery Strays in Upper Columbia Watershed, Lobster and Crab Populations Inside and Outside an MPA
September 22, 2023: New Edition of Names of Fishes, Electrofishing Boat Techniques, Data-limited Stock Assessment for Rockfish
September 8, 2023: New Book on Angler Recruitment and Retention, Committee Volunteers Needed, Snake River Dam Comments
August 14, 2023: Know Before You Go to Grand Rapids
July 27, 2023: Hutton Summit, Grand Rapids Hotel Deadline, Reef Fish Survey Design
July 18, 2023: Reserve Your Room in Grand Rapids, Hutton Challenge, Meet the New Fisheries Editor
June 30, 2023: World Fisheries Congress Abstract Extension, Thermal Refuges for Salmonids, Fire Impacts on Coastal Fisheries
June 15, 2023: World Fisheries Congress Abstracts Ending Soon, Florida Largemouth Bass Stocking, Tuna Management Procedures
June 2, 2023: Supreme Court WOTUS Decision, New Book on Canadian Freshwater Fisheries, Megadrought in Southwest
May 22, 2023: Grand Rapids Continuing Education Opportunities, Assessing American Eel Populations with eDNA, Fish Make Noisy Neighbors
May 5, 2023: AFS News: Election Results, Walleye Recruitment Model, Cisco Morphometrics

Newsletter Archive (Dec 2017 – April 2023)

May 5, 2026 Become a 2018 Hutton Mentor
May 1, 2026 AFS News: High-Level Speaker Announced for Atlantic City, New Pacific Salmon & Trout Book, World Fish Migration Day Virtual Issue
May 1, 2026
May 1, 2026 AFS News: Hunting for Hutton Scholars, Rotenone Workshop, New Policy How-to Webinar
April 30, 2026 Conference Transportation Information for Circus Circus
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Ready for Reno - What to Know Before You Go
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Diversity and Inclusion in Fisheries, Search for the Smoking Gun, Reno Registration Deadline
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Apptastic News, Advanced Sampling Technology, Sturgeon Identification
April 30, 2026 AFS News: CHOW highlights, Stormy Webinar, Govt Budget Woes
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Journal App, Meeting of Generations, Mystery of Sturgeon Pool
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Draft Strategic Plan, Reno Flight Discounts, Get Ready for 150
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Top 20 Journal Articles, Reno Registration Extension, Support State Fish and Wildlife Funding
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Latest Journal Impact Factors, New Fisheries Editor, AFS Pebble Mine Comments
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Officer Election Results, Aquaculture Congressional Briefing, Elwha Dam Removal
April 30, 2026 AFS News: The 1870 Society, Sturgeon and Paddlefish Migration, Game of Drones
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Reno Registration Open, Communicating that Conservation Matters, Redband Trout Genetics
April 30, 2026 Special Issue: Taking Your AFS Journals Experience to the Next Level
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Electrofishing Estuaries, New Webinars, Centrarchid Book
April 30, 2026 AFS/TWS Joint Conference in Reno: News and Preview
April 30, 2026 AFS News: 90-Plus Symposia, Election Q & A, Virtual Collaboration
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Proposal Reprieve, Chinook Salmon Grow Fast or Die Young, Officer Election
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Fish Blood Techniques, Scientist and Angler Dialogue, Why Comment on the Water Rule
April 30, 2026 AFS News: AFS Paper on WOTUS Impacts, Reno-Tahoe Countdown, Hand-Crank Comeback
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Gov Shutdown Impacts, Abrasive Invasives, New Deadlines
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Reno-Tahoe Deadline Extended, Modern Fish Act, New Artificial Reef Book
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Aquatic Scientists Oppose New Water Rule, Drones Counting Fish, Special AFS Goal
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Striped Bass Surprise, Classroom Trout Alliance, World Fisheries Day
April 30, 2026 AFS News: 120 USFWS Jobs in January, "Giving Tuesday," Conserving Cutthroat and Rainbow Trout
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Beavers and Fish, Invasive Fish Food, Visionary AFS Journals
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Red Snapper Reef Spawning,Telemetry Tips, Virtual Marine and Coastal
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Govt Open Science Debate, AFWA Endorses Reno Meeting, Coop Unit Funding
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Access to Award-Winning Papers, Magnuson Recommendations, New Journal Hub
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Jesse Trushenski Becomes President, New Cutthroat Trout Book, View Annual Meeting Photos
April 30, 2026 11 Ways to Maximize Your AFS Meeting Experience
April 30, 2026 AFS News: ESA Changes Coming? Dinosaur Fish Science, and Plenary on Making Your Science Count
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Election Results, Why Keep Hatcheries? Atlantic City Updates
April 30, 2026 #FISHSCI Students at #AFS148 : More Connected Than Ever
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Journal Impact Factors and New Editors; US, Mexico, and Cuba Researchers Complete 7-Year Study; Early Registration Ending
April 30, 2026 AFS News: "Supermale" Brook Trout, Late-breaking Abstracts, Coop Unit Funding
April 30, 2026 AFS News: A Big Week on Capitol Hill, Aquaculture Debate, Book Sale
April 30, 2026 AFS News: AFS Chapters Take Stand, WOTUS Warning, Election Voting Opens
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Job Advice for Students, Diet Decreases Fish Stress, State & Tribal Wildlife Grants Threatened
April 30, 2026 AFS News: New Muskie Book, Bayesian Algorithm Free Webinar, Puerto Rico Aid
April 30, 2026 Happy Holidays from AFS

Newsletter Archive (May 2023 – current)

- July 11, 2025: San Antonio Hotels, Passing of an AFS Past President, Return of Mekong Giant Catfish

- June 24, 2025: Network on Fishbook, Annual Meeting Schedule, Hudson River Eel Project

- June 17, 2025: AFS Policy Updates: Federal Land Sales in Senate Budget Bill

- June 6, 2025: Early Registration Deadline Extended, Student Travel Awards, Draft Strategic Plan

- May 22, 2025: Early Registration Deadline Approaching, Policy Updates, Baitfish Trade Webinar

May 15, 2025: AFS Policy Updates: ESA Habitat Comment Period, USGS Ecosystems Rally, The McClintock Letters
May 9, 2025: Spring Book Sale, Officer Election Results, Wates of the US Proposed Redefinition
April 24, 2025: A Resilient Fisheries Community, Is AI Your Fishy Friend, Great Lakes Webinar
April 11, 2025: San Antonio Annual Meeting Abstract Deadline Extension, ESA Testimony, Genetics Webinar
March 28, 2025: Fisheries Community Check-in, Live Sonar in Recreational Fisheries, Genetics Webinar
March 14, 2025: 2025 Call for Abstracts, Federal Workforce Resource Center, New Book on Fishes of Puerto Rico
February 28, 2025: 2025 Call for Abstracts, Joint Society Statement on Federal Workforce Cuts, Officer Candidate Podcasts
February 21, 2025: Special Edition on Federal Workforce Firings
February 11, 2025: 2025 Call for Award Nominations, Policy Priorities for New Administration, Black Bass 2025 Preview
January 27, 2025: 2025 Call for Sessions Deadline Extension, Stakeholder Engagement, Fisheries Job Interview Tips
January 10, 2025: 2025 Call for Sessions Deadline, Year-End Book Sale Ends Soon, rFAMS Webinar
December 9, 2025: 2025 Call for Sessions Now Open, Year-End Book Sale, Science Communications Webinar
November 22, 2024: 2025 Call for Sessions, FishAge, Black Friday Book Sale
November 13, 2024: 2025 Call for Sessions, Membership Renewal, Side-Scan Sonar
October 23, 2024: 2024 Award Winners, Honolulu Photos, Call for Committee Volunteers
October 7, 2024: Second Edition of Standard Methods for Sampling, FishAge Image Database, Cutting Edge Marine Fish Monitoring
September 6, 2024: Annual Meeting in Honolulu: Know Before You Go
August 26, 2024: Next AFS Executive Director Selected, Selenium Moderating Effects on Mercury in Fish, Call for Officer Nominations
August 6, 2024: Honolulu Service Projects, Razorback Sucker Migration Translocation, Communication Approaches to Improve Fisheries Management
July 18, 2024: Annual Meeting Early Registration Deadline, Reviews of Pacific Salmon Hatcheries, Lake Trout Recovery, and Cutthroat Trout Hybridization
July 1, 2024: Journal Impact Factors, ACE Act, Blackfin Tuna Life History
June 14, 2024: Inland Ghost Fishing, Brook Trout Response to Brown Trout Removal, Best Student Paper Competition
June 3, 2024: World Fish Migration Day, Science Communication Workshop, Revisiting Black Bass World Records
May 17: 2024: Policy Updates, Genetic Predictors of Population Resilience, Tyler Prize Awarded to Fisheries Scientists
May 2, 2024: Honolulu Abstracts Due Friday, Officer Election Results, Using eDNA to Detect Salmon
April 17, 2024: Abstract and Award Deadlines, Honolulu Meeting Registration, Bull Trout Translocation
April 1, 2024: Honolulu Abstract Submission Open, Great Lakes Future Fishers Initiative, Awards Deadline Extended
March 15, 2024: Officer Election, Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Recovery, Statistics Webinar
February 22, 2024: World Fisheries Congress 2024 – Know Before You Go
February 9, 2024: Honolulu Session Deadline, Steelhead Catch-and-release Mortality, King Mackerel Growth Modeling
January 26, 2024: New Soft-shell Clam Book, Native Lamprey Special Journal Section, Why Aren’t Salmon Populations Improving
January 12, 2024: Membership Renewal, Arctic Grayling Response to Temperature Increases, Book Sale Ends Soon
December 18, 2023: Annual Book Sale, Honolulu 2024 Session Submission Open, Fish Reproduction Terminology
December 6, 2023: Hutton Applications Open, WOTUS Call to Action, Angling for Blue Catfish with Sonar
November 9, 2023: Call for 2024 Sessions, Offshore Wind Energy, Chub Conservation, Instream Flow Training Center
October 25, 2023: Membership Renewal Open, WOTUS Update, New Journal Design, Northern Pike on Stringers
October 6, 2023: WFC Travel Award Deadline, Hatchery Strays in Upper Columbia Watershed, Lobster and Crab Populations Inside and Outside an MPA
September 22, 2023: New Edition of Names of Fishes, Electrofishing Boat Techniques, Data-limited Stock Assessment for Rockfish
September 8, 2023: New Book on Angler Recruitment and Retention, Committee Volunteers Needed, Snake River Dam Comments
August 14, 2023: Know Before You Go to Grand Rapids
July 27, 2023: Hutton Summit, Grand Rapids Hotel Deadline, Reef Fish Survey Design
July 18, 2023: Reserve Your Room in Grand Rapids, Hutton Challenge, Meet the New Fisheries Editor
June 30, 2023: World Fisheries Congress Abstract Extension, Thermal Refuges for Salmonids, Fire Impacts on Coastal Fisheries
June 15, 2023: World Fisheries Congress Abstracts Ending Soon, Florida Largemouth Bass Stocking, Tuna Management Procedures
June 2, 2023: Supreme Court WOTUS Decision, New Book on Canadian Freshwater Fisheries, Megadrought in Southwest
May 22, 2023: Grand Rapids Continuing Education Opportunities, Assessing American Eel Populations with eDNA, Fish Make Noisy Neighbors
May 5, 2023: AFS News: Election Results, Walleye Recruitment Model, Cisco Morphometrics

Newsletter Archive (Dec 2017 – April 2023)

May 5, 2026 Become a 2018 Hutton Mentor
May 1, 2026 AFS News: High-Level Speaker Announced for Atlantic City, New Pacific Salmon & Trout Book, World Fish Migration Day Virtual Issue
May 1, 2026
May 1, 2026 AFS News: Hunting for Hutton Scholars, Rotenone Workshop, New Policy How-to Webinar
April 30, 2026 Conference Transportation Information for Circus Circus
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Ready for Reno - What to Know Before You Go
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Diversity and Inclusion in Fisheries, Search for the Smoking Gun, Reno Registration Deadline
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Apptastic News, Advanced Sampling Technology, Sturgeon Identification
April 30, 2026 AFS News: CHOW highlights, Stormy Webinar, Govt Budget Woes
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Journal App, Meeting of Generations, Mystery of Sturgeon Pool
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Draft Strategic Plan, Reno Flight Discounts, Get Ready for 150
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Top 20 Journal Articles, Reno Registration Extension, Support State Fish and Wildlife Funding
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Latest Journal Impact Factors, New Fisheries Editor, AFS Pebble Mine Comments
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Officer Election Results, Aquaculture Congressional Briefing, Elwha Dam Removal
April 30, 2026 AFS News: The 1870 Society, Sturgeon and Paddlefish Migration, Game of Drones
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Reno Registration Open, Communicating that Conservation Matters, Redband Trout Genetics
April 30, 2026 Special Issue: Taking Your AFS Journals Experience to the Next Level
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Electrofishing Estuaries, New Webinars, Centrarchid Book
April 30, 2026 AFS/TWS Joint Conference in Reno: News and Preview
April 30, 2026 AFS News: 90-Plus Symposia, Election Q & A, Virtual Collaboration
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Proposal Reprieve, Chinook Salmon Grow Fast or Die Young, Officer Election
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Fish Blood Techniques, Scientist and Angler Dialogue, Why Comment on the Water Rule
April 30, 2026 AFS News: AFS Paper on WOTUS Impacts, Reno-Tahoe Countdown, Hand-Crank Comeback
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Gov Shutdown Impacts, Abrasive Invasives, New Deadlines
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Reno-Tahoe Deadline Extended, Modern Fish Act, New Artificial Reef Book
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Aquatic Scientists Oppose New Water Rule, Drones Counting Fish, Special AFS Goal
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Striped Bass Surprise, Classroom Trout Alliance, World Fisheries Day
April 30, 2026 AFS News: 120 USFWS Jobs in January, "Giving Tuesday," Conserving Cutthroat and Rainbow Trout
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Beavers and Fish, Invasive Fish Food, Visionary AFS Journals
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Red Snapper Reef Spawning,Telemetry Tips, Virtual Marine and Coastal
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Govt Open Science Debate, AFWA Endorses Reno Meeting, Coop Unit Funding
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Access to Award-Winning Papers, Magnuson Recommendations, New Journal Hub
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Jesse Trushenski Becomes President, New Cutthroat Trout Book, View Annual Meeting Photos
April 30, 2026 11 Ways to Maximize Your AFS Meeting Experience
April 30, 2026 AFS News: ESA Changes Coming? Dinosaur Fish Science, and Plenary on Making Your Science Count
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Election Results, Why Keep Hatcheries? Atlantic City Updates
April 30, 2026 #FISHSCI Students at #AFS148 : More Connected Than Ever
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Journal Impact Factors and New Editors; US, Mexico, and Cuba Researchers Complete 7-Year Study; Early Registration Ending
April 30, 2026 AFS News: "Supermale" Brook Trout, Late-breaking Abstracts, Coop Unit Funding
April 30, 2026 AFS News: A Big Week on Capitol Hill, Aquaculture Debate, Book Sale
April 30, 2026 AFS News: AFS Chapters Take Stand, WOTUS Warning, Election Voting Opens
April 30, 2026 AFS News: Job Advice for Students, Diet Decreases Fish Stress, State & Tribal Wildlife Grants Threatened
April 30, 2026 AFS News: New Muskie Book, Bayesian Algorithm Free Webinar, Puerto Rico Aid
April 30, 2026 Happy Holidays from AFS