Check out our newest title The Soft-Shell Clam Mya arenaria: Biology, Fisheries, and Mariculture. This book assembles and synthesizes published data on the clam to assist researchers and students studying the organism and its role in its ecosystem, as well as facilitating efforts at managing its fishery and enabling mariculture.

New Year’s has come and gone, holiday decorations are put away, and spring surveys will be here before you know it, so it’s time to get organized for 2024. We thank all of those who have already renewed for this year! But if you haven’t renewed your membership yet, why the delay? Renew today! 

It is only through strong membership support that AFS can provide tools and resources for fisheries professionals. Invest in the Society that invests in its members and the fisheries community as a whole. We appreciate your past support and ask you to renew your membership today. 

Click here for everything you need to know regarding your renewal for 2024. For questions or assistance, contact the Membership Team at membership@fisheries.org.

Take advantage of early registration rates by registering now for the 2024 World Fisheries Congress, March 3-7, in Seattle, Washington. Early registration rates end on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. And while you are registering, don't forget to check out the variety of training workshops being offered on Sunday, March 3.

Session proposal submission is now open for the 2024 Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai'i, September 15-19. Submit your ideas for symposia, innovative sessions, and continuing education courses by February 23, 2024.

A symposium at the 2022 American Fisheries Society meeting highlighted collaborations among biologists, policymakers, and Native American tribes addressing conservation for native lampreys. Native lampreys provide ecosystem services that benefit a range of aquatic organisms and are essential to Native American tribes for nutritional, medicinal, and ceremonial purposes. The papers in this collection present key findings, related research, and an example of grassroots effort to protect and restore Pacific Lamprey.

Bluegill, an invasive species in Japan, were found to have very few native brood predators in a lake where they are thought to be increasing. In addition, the colony spawning strategy appeared to be beneficial in that nests located closer to other active nests experienced reduced brood predation even after the guarding males were removed.

Declines in populations of Pacific salmon in the Pacific Northwest have led to listings under the Endangered Species Act. One objective of current recovery efforts is the restoration of freshwater and estuarine habitats, which had been occurring prior to Endangered Species Act listing but increased dramatically afterwards. However, few listed populations are improving.

Sound is among the most widely effective communication mechanisms in the ocean, traveling over four times as fast in seawater than it does in air. Many marine mammal, fish, and invertebrate species are soniferous, meaning they produce sounds for a variety of reasons, such as territorial behavior, mating, and echolocation.