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Take advantage of early bird registration rates by registering by July 12th. AFS members save even more!
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The upcoming joint annual conference of AFS and TWS is going to be a singular event for natural resource professionals—a real smörgåsbord of learning and professional development opportunities. If you’re still looking for a reason to come to Reno, read on—General Meeting Co‐Chairs Rob Titus and Jackie Watson have compiled their top 10!
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The Recovering America's Wildlife Act is expected to be reintroduced in Congress this week. Join us for a free webinar on July 10 co-hosted by AFS and The Wildlife Society on how you can support this game-changing legislation to provide increased, dedicated funding for state fish and wildlife programs.
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Find out what caught the attention of fisheries scientists and managers by checking out our top 20 downloaded 2018 papers for each AFS journal. Full access is available to AFS members and Marine and Coastal Fisheries is open access always! Featured Papers are also available with free access.
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Many U.S. marine fisheries are showing the impacts of climate change. Some species are shifting outside their historical range in response to changing ecosystem conditions, especially warming waters, but also to changing habitats and ocean acidification. This new reality poses challenges to our current management regimes as fish and fishermen move, sometimes into areas dedicated to different historical uses or new ventures.
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A new web tool allows users to estimate the median, mode, and distribution of prey lengths likely ingested by piscivorous individuals or an entire piscivorous population with nothing more than observed, estimated, or hypothesized predator lengths, arguably the most readily available form of fisheries data.
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This study quantifies probabilities of accuracy and detectability in radio telemetry as affected by transmitter type, depth, number, and receiver altitude.
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Tag retention, healing, survival, relative growth rates, and behavior were evaluated for age-0 Muskellunge Esox masquinongy implanted with JSATs, one of the smallest commercially available acoustic transmitters. No fish lost tags or died due to surgery, wounds healed within 30 days, and tag insertion did not influence growth of tagged, sham, or control Muskellunge after 4 months.
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The American Fisheries Society seeks a scientist with a broad perspective on fisheries to act as Co-Chief Science Editor to work as part of a leadership team to oversee the science and creative content of Fisheries. The Editor must be committed to fast-paced deadlines and would be appointed for a five-year renewable term.
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RESOURCES
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CAREERS: For the latest JOBS postings from around the U.S. and Canada
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