Division News
The 2010 Officer Electronic Election will begin soon. This year we will be voting for Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer and SDAFS Representative to the AFS Nominating Committee. You can view bios of all the candidates here.
The Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society has a limited number of complimentary student rooms available for the 2010 Southeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Meeting (October 17 th – 20 th) at the Beau Rivage Casino and Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi. Learn More.
The June 2010 Southern Division newsletter is now available for review.
The SDAFS Alligator Gar Ad-hoc Technical Committee will be holding its annual meeting in conjunction with the International Network for Lepisosteid Fish Research and Management meeting on May 26, 2010 in Thibodaux, LA. The agendas and times for the meetings will be updated and posted here when available.
The Warmwater Streams committee has just released a video entitled Warmwater Streams:
A Resource Worth Protecting. This video portrays the wealth of warmwater stream values in the Southeast, from prehistory to present day. It can be viewed here.
Pod Casts from the 2010 SDAFS Spring Meeting in Asheville, NC are now available on-line. They can be viewed on the Spring meeting pod cast page. Note: To view these presentations you must have downloaded and installed Adobe ShockWave Player (there is an Adobe download button on the site) and you must be using Windows Internet Explorer browser (either for Windows or Mac OS operating systems). You must also enable ActiveX on your IE browser.
The January 2007 Directory of Hatcheries located within the Southern Division has been developed by the Aquaculture Technical Committee.
The Aquaculture Committee has developed a draft BMP Plan for fish hatcheries to address new NPDES rules promulgated by the USEPA. Click here to download it now.