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Essays

Adventures of an Urban Angler

Christopher Moore, E-mail: [email protected] 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

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Q&A: The Success Story of the Oregon Chub: An Interview with Paul Scheerer

  Paul Scheerer is a project leader with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)–Native Fish Investigations Program. He has worked with ODFW for 24 years with a focus

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Annual Meeting

What Not to Miss at the Annual Meeting (Including the Most Unique Symposium)

5 Questions with Program Co-Chairs, Jim Bowker and Nancy Leonard 1. How many symposia will there be in Portland, and why did you choose to not have a theme? We

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Fisheries News & Science

Economic Impact and Value Data Can Be Used to Assess Policy Changes

By Sarah Harrison | AFS Contributing Editor. E-mail: [email protected] Clifford Hutt (Mississippi State University, Human Dimensions and Conservation Laboratory) and his colleagues estimated both the economic impact (the monetary benefits

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Fisheries News & Science

Oil Spill Impacts to Red Snapper in the Gulf

By Sarah Harrison | AFS Contributing Editor. E-mail: [email protected] In this study, Joseph H. Tarnecki and William F. Patterson of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, University of South Alabama, examined

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Fisheries News & Science

Avoiding Domestication of an Endangered Species: Conservation Culture of California’s Delta Smelt

Jeff Schaeffer | AFS Co-Chief Science Editor. E-mail: [email protected] This article highlights efforts to conserve Delta Smelt Hypomesus transpacificus, an endangered species threatened by habitat loss and drought in the

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Identifying Endocrine Disrupters as an Emerging Issue: Smallmouth Bass in the Potomac River

Jeff Schaeffer | AFS Co-Chief Science Editor. E-mail: [email protected] With this article, Vicky Blazer (U.S. Geological Survey, National Fish Health Research Laboratory) and her colleagues established clearly that endocrine disruptors

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Fisheries Classics: Ryder’s Morphoedaphic Index

Jeff Schaeffer | AFS Co-Chief Science Editor. E-mail: [email protected] This work by Richard Ryder represents an important paper because it was one of the first widely accepted papers that promoted

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AFS Responds to an Op-Ed in the New York Times on Trout Fishing in the Northeast US

“The Cost of Trout Fishing,” a recent op-ed piece by Douglas Thompson in the New York Times (Thompson 2015), included several inaccurate statements and fundamental misunderstandings of fisheries management and

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The Sordid Trail of an AFS Response to New York Times Op-ed Piece

Douglas Austen, AFS Executive Director Back on April 11, 2015, the New York Times (NYT) published an op-ed by Douglas Thompson on trout fishing and hatcheries that some AFS members

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