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 on describing the status, distribution, seasonal movements, and life history characteristics of Oregon’s native non-game fishes. Email:[email protected] Past president Bob Hughes says, “This project was... Read More
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 will have 103 symposia, plus the Student Best Papers and Posters Session, and likely x contributed sessions and expect nearly 2,180 oral presentations, making this... Read More
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 of angling to the regional economy) and economic value (the value of a fishing trip above the angler’s actual costs; their net “willingness-to-pay” for the... Read More
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 the impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill on the diet and trophic position of Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus off the coasts of... Read More
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 Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta. This is an important topic because several social media communications have blamed Delta Smelt for exacerbating California’s current drought issues. This has... Read More
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 were a potential issue for fish health, and not just in watersheds with high human population densities. They found a surprisingly high incidence of intersex... Read More
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 the idea that groups of freshwater lakes were comparable and that fish yields could be predicted based on physical and chemical attributes. The morphoedaphic index... Read More
“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 aquaculture. As fisheries research and management professionals, the American Fisheries Society would like to set the record straight. The mission of the American Fisheries Society... Read More
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 found to include some truths but also a troubling amount of erroneous information and misrepresentations of facts. Until relatively recently, AFS has not been actively... Read More
Sean Lucey, AFS-AIFRB Liaison E-mail: [email protected] Professional societies come in all shapes and sizes. They foster cooperation and communication between people who are engaged in a profession, in our case fisheries science. Some focus on specific issues, while others are broader in scope. I have the pleasure of serving as the liaison between two well-established... Read More
