FAS Members – Mark Your Calendars
2005 Spring Meeting Annoucement
Dear Fisheries Administration Section Member:
Please hold May 20 - 22, 2005 for the Spring meeting of the American Fisheries Society - Fisheries Administration Section.
The meeting will be held at the Adams Mark in Buffalo, NY.
The meeting will be held Saturday, May 21st (all day) and Sunday, May 22 (morning - if necessary, desired).
Agenda/ Discussion items:
- Interest has been expressed in presentations on New York's assessment of double-crested cormorant impacts to fish stocks and on the control
measures implemented to date
- North American Agenda for Aquatic Resources
- National Fish Habitat Initiative / Eastern Brook Trout joint venture
- Nominations/ election of new Section Officers
- Others as proposed by FAS members - please provide to Doug soon.
Arrangements will be made for recreational opportunities (fishing!) on Friday, May, 20th and Sunday, May 22 (afternoon):
- Friday - Lake Erie smallmouth bass
- Friday - Niagara River steelhead/ trout
- Friday (afternoon) - Lake Ontario trout/ salmon
- Sunday (afternoon) - Lake Ontario trout/salmon
More details to follow in the next few weeks.
Douglas Stang
Chief, Bureau of Fisheries
New York State Dept. Environmental Conservation
625 Broadway
Albany, New York 12233-4753
518-402-8920
518-402-8925 FAX
dxstang@gw.dec.state.ny.us