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President’s Commentary The Future of AFS Journals Policy Fish Need Infrastructure, Too Communications Expanding Our Reach: How AFS Staff and Units Have Advanced Communications in Just a Few
By Steve McMullin, AFS President. E-mail: [email protected] You probably have heard by now that one of the benefits of the Society’s new publishing contract with
President Trump’s push for a US$1 trillion infrastructure package offers an opportunity to pursue benefits for aquatic resources. Most infrastructure is inextricably connected to water.
The Mississippi River is a multijurisdictional and multiuse resource that has been variously altered and is foremost managed for navigation and flood control throughout much of its 3,734-km passage from its origin at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to its outlet at the Gulf of Mexico
Bioenergetics modeling is a widely used tool in fisheries management and research. Although popular, currently available software (i.e., Fish Bioenergetics 3.0) has not been updated in over 20 years and is incompatible with newer operating systems (i.e., 64-bit).
By Steve McMullin, AFS President In case you had not noticed, scientists have a communication problem. When people in the news disregard, deny, or even
By Daniel C. Dauwalter, Kurt A. Fesenmyer, Robin Bjork, Douglas R. Leasure & Seth J. Wenger Remote sensing has been pivotal to our understanding of freshwater
By Erik R. Schoen, Mark S. Wipfli, E. Jamie Trammell, Daniel J. Rinella, Angelica L. Floyd, Jess Grunblatt, Molly D. McCarthy, Benjamin E. Meyer, John M. Morton, James
COLUMNS President’s Commentary Can Fisheries Scientists Win the War on Science? Policy Regional Approaches to Marine Resources Management Guest Column A Conversation about NMFS’ Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Policy
COLUMNS President’s Commentary Getting More Out of Your AFS Dues Policy Rivers and Fish, Not Rivers Versus Fish Transitions Interactions between Politics and Natural Resource Organizations Photo
