FMS News
06.19.2009
Burbot are on a Role – a Third Symposium: Love em or hate em like em or not the burbot is on a role. After two successful symposia one in Baltimore in 1998, and a second in Anchorage in 2005 and two Burbot Proceedings a third burbot symposium is in progress. The Third International Burbot Symposium is scheduled for Barcelona, Spain in July of 2010. Although in Europe, North American scientists are encouraged to participate. This symposium will be in coordination with the International Congress on the Biology of Fish meeting. For those who are interested write me at the address below, E-mail me at vaughn.paragamian@idfg.idaho.gov or call at (208) 769-1414.
Vaughn L. Paragamian
Idaho Department of Fish Game
2885 W. Kathleen Ave.
Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho 83815
06.18.2009
The Spring 2009 Edition of the FMS Newsletter is now online.
02.15.2009
The FMS Mid-Year Report to the AFS Governing Board has been published in the Reports section of the web site.
02.11.2009
The Winter 2009 Edition of the FMS Newsletter is now online.
01.30.2009
The Minutes from the 2008 Business Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario are online.
01.23.2009
The plaques for 2008 Hall of Excellence inductees Thomas Gengerke, Howard Tanner, and Richard Whitney are now viewable online.
01.12.2009
During the Section business meeting in Ottawa, the Urban and Community Fisheries Management Committee (UCFM) was approved as an ad-hoc committee. Its purpose is “to serve as a means for urban and community fisheries managers to better communicate, learn from one another, and advance the effectiveness of urban and community fisheries management.” Get more info and join the committee here.
07.21.2008
The minutes from the 2007 San Francisco FMS meeting and a tentative agenda for the 2008 Ottawa FMS meeting are online.
06.30.2008
The 1992 report published by the FMS Fisheries Techniques Standardization Committee Fish Sampling and Data Analysis Techniques Used by Conservation Agencies in the U. S. and Canada is now available for download.
02.19.2008
Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes is nearing completion. The book is in its final draft and will then be published by the AFS Books program. Click here for a February 2008 status report.
11.15.2007
FMS was fortunate to have many deserving nominees in 2007, so there were either individual or multiple winners of all available awards. FMS President Joe Larscheid and President-Elect Ron Essig presented these awards at the FMS business meeting on September 2, 2007 at AFS meeting in San Francisco, CA. Get the details.
11.07.2007
Two papers have been published by the ad hoc FMS Assessment of Fish Aging Techniques Committee in Fisheries. The titles are "Earliest References to Age Determination of Fishes and Their Early Application to the Study of Fisheries" and "Current Status and Review of Freshwater Fish Aging Procedures Used by State and Provincial Fisheries Agencies with Recommendations for Future Directions". We have also included links to the articles on our Products page.
08.21.2007
The agenda for the 2007 FMS Business Meeting in San Francisco, California is now available.
07.01.2007
Rotenone is now being evaluated for re-registration. Click here for more details.
03.30.2007
View an essay by Don Bonneau (IA) regarding traditional and more holistic approaches to lake and reservoir management. Don makes the point that traditional approaches (such as stocking, regulations, etc.) are not always sufficient to properly manage fisheries for the longterm.
03.16.2007
Nominations for inductees into the Hall of Excellence and the three Fisheries Management Section awards (Conservation Achievement Award, Award of Merit, and Award of Excellence) are requested by May 31. Please see the Hall of Excellence and Awards sections of this website for further information.
02.23.2007
Minutes of the FMS Business Meeting held September 10, 2006 in Lake Placid are now online.
The 2007 FMS Mid-Year Progress Report to the Governing Board is online.
01.08.2007
The symposium, Tangled Roles, Logjams, and Snarled Nets: How to Implement Integrated Ecosystem-Based Management in Fisheries, has been accepted by the American Fisheries Society for their annual meeting, September 2 - 6, 2007 in San Francisco, CA. This is the LAST call for papers and poster abstracts. Due date: February 21, 2007. More information is available here.
Survey: Inland Fisheries Management in North America, Third Edition
We are seeking input from fisheries educators, students, and professionals on the content and format of the forthcoming Third Edition of Inland Fisheries Management in North America. To share your views and ideas on the next edition of Inland Fisheries Management, please complete the short survey at the following web site:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=64843096093
This is a great opportunity to make the Third Edition more useful and relevant for you. All responses will be considered seriously and treated confidentially by the coeditors.
Thank you for your participation,
Mike Quist
10.18.2006
Data Managers from across the country (marine and freshwater) will come together October 31-November 2, 2006 in Salt Lake City, Utah to participate in National Fisheries Data Summit II - Focusing on Applications to the National Fish Habitat initiative. The products of the Summit will directly impact the progress of the National Fish Habitat Initiative (NFHI).
09.10.2006
Year 2006 Hall Of Excellence inductees: Robert Carline and Wayne Hubert. Click here for the entire list.
08.23.2006
FINAL CALL 2007 Urban Fishing Symposium: For additional information visit our website at http://www.uaex.edu/uapbstudent/UrbanFishing/2007.htm. The symposium event is pending annual meeting acceptance, but the book proposal has been accepted and the information presented at the symposium (oral and poster presentations) will be published as a Proceedings by the American Fisheries Society in 2008.
08.08.2006
The FMS Report to the AFS Governing Board, September 2006, is available online.
07.13.2006
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS! The Reservoir Committee invites abstracts for contributed oral and poster presentations for the 4th North American Reservoir Symposium - Balancing Fisheries Management and Water Uses for Impounded River Systems, June 6-9, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia.
07.11.2006
Dowload the latest version of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan News. For even more news go the the National Fish Habitat Action Plan web site.
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: American Fisheries Society 2007 Urban Fishing Symposium, Held in conjunction with the AFS Annual Meeting (Pending Annual Meeting Acceptance), September 2-6, 2007 in San Francisco, CA. http://www.uaex.edu/uapbstudent/UrbanFishing/2007.htm
07.05.2006
Long-time FMS member Don Duff reported on the trout stream habitat improvement workshops that our section has helped to sponsor since 1978. The 2006 meeting is entitled Salmonids in the 21st Century, and will be held Oct 17-20, 2006 in Newcastle, United Kingdom. A call for papers can be found at their website (http://www.associationofriverstrusts.org.uk/salmonid_conf/), but the deadline is July 7. Download the meeting flyer here.
Based on the successful workshop in Ireland in 2002, which FMS also cosponsored, the Central Fisheries Board has issued a new publication based on their river restoration works using natural materials, based on design input from Duff in the 1990's. The book, entitled Channels & Challenges: the Enhancement of Salmonid Rivers, can be ordered from the Central Fisheries Board for a cost of about $50 (US), which includes shipping (http://www.cfb.ie/pr/channelsandchallenges.htm).
The linked flier has information on a National Fish Habitat Action Plan workshop that will be held at the Lake Placid AFS meeting. Please note the sponsorship by both FMS and the Fisheries Administration Section. Also, note that our FMS business meeting will occur late in the workshop, and we will have time for business as usual.
05.15.2006
Download the Spring 2006 FMS Newsletter.
03.27.2006
The Fisheries Management Section approved free student FMS memberships at the 2005 business meeting in Anchorage. Students must simply check the box when AFS membership renewals are submitted.
03.21.2006
FMS member Ken Gerow has written "Power and Sample Size Estimation Techniques for Fisheries Management: Assessment and a New Computational Tool" (in press). Get the paper and spreadsheet here.
01.07.2006
What does the future look like for salmon in North America? Check out an interview with Robert Lackey about the Salmon 2100 Project.
12.12.2005
Minutes of the Annual Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, September 2005 are now posted.
The FMS has created a new ad hoc committee: Assessment of Fish Aging Techniques. Get more details here.
Book Development: Standard Sampling Methods for North American Freshwater Fishes. Click here for more details.
10.07.2005
Year 2005 Hall Of Excellence inductee: Roy Heidinger. Click here for the entire list.
Revisions to the FMS bylaws were approved at the annual meeting in Anchorage.
08.19.2005
The Fish Management Section 2005 Annual Report to the AFS Governing Board is available.