16th annual ‘Day in the Life of the Hudson River Watershed’: contributed by Scott Wells Posted 11-1-18: For a fourth straight year, DEC’s Region 4 Fisheries organized a group effort in support of this popular riverwide public outreach event. A main goal of this event is to combat the Nature Deficit among our youth, mostly from... 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
If you haven’t visited our website in a while, take a look – https://newyork.fisheries.org/. We have been busy over the last few weeks updating the website. You’ll notice some things have moved around and are organized differently. It’s still a work in progress, so take a look and let us know what you think (and what... Read More
Here is a unique aquacultural engineering job opportunity at SUNY Cobleskill. A position teaching ½ time here with us at SUNY and ½ time performing evaluations of New York State fish hatcheries. This is a shared, grant funded, 5 year position. https://cobleskill.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=102869 Read More
Round ‘Slowby’ No More?: contributed by Scott George Posted 9-25-18: The invasion of Round Goby eastward through the Barge Canal towards the Hudson River has been slower than anticipated. An angler captured a specimen in 2014 near Utica but no specimens have been reported east of Sylvan Beach (east end of Oneida Lake) since that time.... Read More
Introducing shadia: contributed by Dan Stich Posted 9-12-18: Introducing shadia the first R package for modeling American shad populations! The new R package allows users to run dam passage performance standards models for American shad in northeast Atlantic Coastal Rivers (Connecticut, Merrimack, Penobscot, and Susquehanna rivers currently). The models combine classical cohort-based projection models for annual vital... 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
White Sucker Behavior: contributed by Ben Marcy-Quay At this year’s Adirondack Research Forum, Benjamin Marcy-Quay (Cornell University Adirondack Fishery Research Program) presented data indicating that white suckers (Catostomus commersonii) undertake diel movement between lakes. PIT-tagged suckers were detected moving across an antenna array located in a narrow channel between two Adirondack lakes on a nightly... Read More
The YARE Creek Freaks Workshop on April 16th at Hartwick College Pine Lake Environmental Campus was a success! We had 19 participants, including 2 staff/faculty from SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick, 7 students from Hartwick, and 10 students from SUNY Oneonta with several from the Lake Management program. Samantha Roth, formerly of Cornell and the... Read More
