AFS Adapts and Remains Relevant in the Digital World
AFS headquarters are housed in the Glascock Building in Bethesda, Maryland. By Christine Moffitt, Robert M. Hughes, Doug Austen, Tom Bigford, Beth Beard, Dan Cassidy, and Aaron Lerner In this paper, we...
View ArticleDevelopment of Electrofishing for Fisheries Management
Photo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By James B. Reynolds and Jan C. Dean Electrofishing may be broadly defined as the use of electricity to capture or control fish. The concept began on October...
View ArticleA Brief History of Fisheries in Canada
By Rowshyra A. Castañeda, Colleen M. M. Burliuk, John M. Casselman, Steven J. Cooke, Karen M. Dunmall, L. Scott Forbes, Caleb T. Hasler, Kimberly L. Howland, Jeffrey A. Hutchings, Geoff M. Klein,...
View ArticleAFS Roots: Mothers of Fishes
By Christina A. Murphy, Lauren Zatkos, Kelsi Antonelli, A. Brent Cárdenas, Christina Linkem, Michael Manning, Juan Andres Olivos, Brooke E. Penaluna, Amanda Pollock, and Ivan Arismendi In light of the...
View ArticleThe Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program at 20 Years
Hutton Scholar Camila Diaz working with the U.S. Forest Service in Puerto Rico By Mary Webb Banning During the 130th AFS Annual Meeting in 2000, two long‐time American Fisheries Society members,...
View ArticleTracking Fisheries Through Time: The American Fisheries Society as a...
Lake Whitefish egg take on the Detroit River by the Michigan Fish Commission, circa 1885. Courtesy: Michigan State Archives. By Gary E. Whelan, Diana M. Day, John M. Casselman, Laura Gephart, Carolyn...
View ArticleWilliam E. Meehan: An AFS Legacy Builder
W. E. Meehan (left) with Daniel Broberg, the Arctic expedition’s Native interpreter. By Daniel Shaw William E. Meehan, my great‐great‐grandfather, had both professional accomplishment and humiliation...
View ArticleAFS Roots: Emmeline Moore, All Things to All Fishes
By Lauren Zatkos, Christina A. Murphy, Amanda Pollock, Brooke E. Penaluna, J. Andres Olivos, Emilee Mowlds, Christine Moffitt, Michael Manning, Christina Linkem, Lisa Holst, A. Brent Cárdenas, and Ivan...
View ArticleFrom Johnny Fish‐Seed to Hatchery‐Bashing to Shaping the Shoal of Aquaculture...
Howard Tanner releasing the first Coho Salmon into the Platte River, Michigan, in 1966. Image courtesy of Michigan Department of Natural Resources. By Jesse T. Trushenski, James D. Bowker, Gary E....
View ArticleAFS Roots: James Alexander Henshall, the Apostle of the Black Bass
By Brian Murphy, AFS President I consider him, inch for inch and pound for pound, the gamest fish that swims. —James A. Henshall, Book of the Black Bass Wednesday, 6 June, 1883, Cooper Institute in New...
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