Latest AFS Publications
Throughout my time serving as an officer of the American Fisheries Society (AFS), I have engaged in many discussions concerning membership. Those discussions have concerned topics such as how many members we have, why we don't have more members, why many fisheries professionals attend Chapter meetings but do not become AFS members, and what can... Read More
When I started my career in politics a little over 20 years ago, Google was in beta, mobile phones came in a bag, and dial‐up Internet was de rigueur. Newsletters were still transmitted via fax machine. Smartphones and social media were the stuff of dreams. In those two decades, significant advances in technology have transformed the... Read More
Today’s society has greater access to video media than ever before (Duffy 2008; Mulhern 2009). The rapid expansion of the Internet (Web 2.0) in the 1990s followed by the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in the early 21st century have put people across the globe in front of screens not just capable of text and... Read More
The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) is a public international organization that was established in 1923 by an agreement between Canada and the United States. Its mandate is to perform research on and manage Pacific Halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis stocks within the waters of both nations. Every year the IPHC staff conducts numerous scientific projects to... Read More
Photo credit: D. J. Orth. Social media has great, unrealized potential to improve student learning and engagement. Whereas some traditional face‐to‐face instruction may encourage “cram, pass, and forget” learning strategies, a holistic approach to student learning requires smart use of social media to facilitate long‐term personal, professional, and scholarly development. In this paper, I advocate... Read More
Photo credit: scyther5/Shutterstock Social media has revolutionized how people communicate with one another. This has important implications for science, environmental advocacy, and natural resource management, with numerous documented professional benefits for people in each of these fields. Some fisheries management professionals have been wary of social media use, in no small part due... Read More
Bayesian inference is everywhere, from one of the most recent journal articles in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society to the decision-making process you undergo when selecting a new fishing spot. Bayesian inference is the only statistical paradigm that synthesizes prior knowledge with newly collected data to facilitate a more informed decision—and it is... Read More
Could More Salmon Cause Reduced Growth, Lower Survival of Some Salmon Populations? April 4, 2018 (Bethesda, MD) - A new article published by the American Fisheries Society (AFS), in its journal Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science, reports that, contrary to most media reports, the total abundance of Pacific salmon is at... Read More
By Gary D. Grossman and Kirill Y. Chernoff Open educational resources (OERs) encompass a broad class of pedagogical resources that, by definition, are available to any user group, typically via the World Wide Web (Parisky and Boulay 2013; Islim et al. 2016). These resources range from electronic texts to raw data, to Web‐hosted videos, to preformulated class exercises. The vast... Read More
Check out this interview with Todd Pearsons where he talks about how he got started in photography and how he captures such amazing shots here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fsh.10040 Read More
