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Happy New Year my fellow NY Chapter AFS Members and Friends! The 2019 Annual Meeting is only a month away and the final preparations are being checked off the list. As your Chapter President-elect, I am charged with coordinating and gathering items to raffle off during our evening banquet. The funds from the raffle support... Read More
The New York Chapter American Fisheries Society and the Northeast Division of American Fisheries Society will be holding a joint Annual Meeting in 2019. Date: February 6-8, 2019 Location: Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel (https://www.pokgrand.com/) – Poughkeepsie, NY [Link to map] https://newyork.fisheries.org/annual-meeting/ Read More
NY Chapter – Northeast Division AFS Annual Meeting, Feb. 6-8, 2019 Shad(s) Symposium Co-Conveners: K. Limburg, D. Stich, G. Kenney The anadromous alosine herrings (shads) once dominated East Coast rivers and estuaries, but are now in decline. In particular, the American shad has become much less abundant, despite efforts to reduce fishing pressure and restore... Read More
Fall 2018 YARE (Youth Aquatic Resource Education Workshop) at Otsego Lake, Glimmerglass State Park I’m happy to report that, despite the crazy cold weather, this fall’s workshop was a tremendous success. For our November 10th workshop, we had all 20 of our participants show! In fact, they were all present so we could start 10 minutes... Read More
The NY Chapter American Fisheries Society, NYS Parks and the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station Present… YARE Workshop! Youth Aquatic Resource Education (YARE) For who? Teachers, educators, college students and the public What? YARE workshop for aquatic sampling & youth environmental education! November 10, 2018 9:00 am—4:30 pm Glimmerglass State Park 1527... Read More
Two Youth Aquatic Resource Education (YARE) Workshops – Feb 23rd at SUNY Morrisville had 20 Student Conservation Association and Excelsior Conservation Corps members and again on April 23rd at Honeywell Visitor Center on Onondaga Lake had 25 SUNY ESF students (co instructed with Tom Hughes by SUNY ESF PhD student Molly Welsh). Tom Hughes is... Read More
