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Shelley Dawicki, Northeast Fisheries Science Center. E-mail: shelley.dawicki@noaa.gov For decades, volunteers have played an important role in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries at-sea research operations, working side by
Christopher Moore, E-mail: mootopher@gmail.com There’s not much finesse involved. Leave your dry flies at home, and try not to think in terms like pocket water or drift. When you’re hunting snakeheads
Phillip W. Bettoli U.S. Geological Survey, Tennessee Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505. E-mail:pbettoli@tntech.edu Tucked away on the Highland Rim physiographic province in middle Tennessee is
An Interview with Michael D. Tringali, James M. Long, Timothy W. Birdsong, and Micheal S. Allen, editors. 2015. Black bass diversity: multidisciplinary science for conservation. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 82,
Jack E. Williams, Helen M. Neville, Amy L. Haak, Warren T. Colyer, Seth J. Wenger, and Stan Bradshaw Climate change is contributing to the severity and rate of stream degradation
Jason T. Papenfuss, Nicholas Phelps, David Fulton, and Paul A. Venturelli Successfully managing fisheries and controlling the spread of invasive species depends on the ability to describe and predict angler
by Natalie Sopinka—AFS Contributing Writer natsopinka@gmail.com Solomon David lives and breathes for all things Bowfin Amia calva, sturgeon, lungfish, and especially gar. How fitting, since these relics of earth’s geologic
by Natalie Sopinka—AFS Contributing Writer natsopinka@gmail.com Perhaps exhausted after a long-distance swim along the St. Lawrence River, a beaver was seen sleeping on the back of a humpback whale Megaptera
by Natalie Sopinka—AFS Contributing Writer natsopinka@gmail.com A timeworn image of a dam on Toronto’s Don River appears on the projector screen. Vanessa Minke-Martin’s voice fills the room. “The Atlantic Salmon
