New York Chapter American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting – Call for Abstracts

This is a call for abstracts for the 2021 virtual NYCAFS meeting to be held February 24 – 26.  This year’s theme is Embracing Diversity: Resilient Fishes and Fisheries.  Please submit your abstracts within this theme and beyond by Friday January 29, 2021 using the link below.

Abstract submissions should include, Title, Author(s), Presenting author (please note if student), Affiliation, and Abstract (< 200 words).

Oral presentations should be recorded and no longer than 15 minutes in length. Maximum file size must not exceed 50 MB. Posters should be formatted as .pdf files.

The virtual meeting will be hosted in Whova where oral presentations and posters will be uploaded and accessible.  Additional correspondence will follow regarding the upload of presentations and posters to the Whova platform. Student presentations will be judged for annual awarding of best student oral presentation and poster presentation.

Presenters will be notified of abstract acceptance by Monday February 1, 2021.  Please contact program chair Matthew Altenritter ([email protected]) with any questions.

Abstracts should be submitted through the NYCAFS annual meeting abstract page:

https://newyork.fisheries.org/annual-meeting/2021-abstract-submission-page/

Happy New Year!