Session proposal submission for the 2024 Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai'i will be opening soon! Check out the Call for Sessions to learn more about the meeting and this year's theme: Conserving Fishes and Fishing Traditions through Knowledge Co-Production.

Do you want to display your agency or products in front of a large international audience? Register to be a World Fisheries Congress Tradeshow Exhibitor and reach an estimated 1,800 high-level attendees from 72 countries, all in one great venue.

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Twelve recognized species in genus Macrhybopsis are distributed across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Most chubs have elevated conservation concerns at international, national, or state/province levels, but management intervention might reverse their trajectory of decline. The organizers hope that the 10 papers included in this special section will inspire future work on the ecology and management of chubs.

Renewable energy and marine fisheries are both integral elements of the blue economy. Co-existence of these two industries requires understanding how wind development may affect marine ecosystems, commercial and recreational fishing communities, fisheries data collections, fisheries science, and management. This themed issue presents a collection of 12 papers that report original research, new syntheses, and perspectives, which explore the ecological, socioeconomic, and fisheries management dimensions of offshore wind interactions with fish and fisheries.

The authors of this paper developed an R package for the Inland Fisheries Division of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to help team members share R functions and data sets. The {NCIFD} package stores several functions that were developed for agency research, including cleanBIODE(), which cleans query results from a database of standardized fish samples and imports the data into an R session.

A newly completed feasibility assessment has established the need, support, strategies, and pathways forward to develop a new Instream Flow and Water Level Conservation (IFWLC) Training, Research, and Development Center. 

For nearly two decades, interdisciplinary instream flow related conservation (protection, restoration and enhancement) training, research and development services were provided under the direction of the federal Cooperative Instream Flow Service Group (CIFSG) in Fort Collins, Colorado. After that group ceased to exist in 2001, no equivalent centralized uniform source of instream flow and water level conservation (IFWLC) training and support services has been established.

The Instream Flow Council (IFC) and AFS completed a multi-state conservation grant project to assess the needs and support for establishing a new IFWLC training, research, and development center, and contingent on positive outcomes of the assessment, develop strategies and pathways forward to establish and operate the center.  

The 2024 Hutton Program is looking for mentors! The Hutton Program offers fisheries professionals the opportunity to mentor high school students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds during an 8-week, paid summer internship. Thanks to our program partners, we are able to offer this program at no cost to our mentors. The application deadline is March 31, 2024.

Have you been wanting to gain more volunteer experience while helping the Society? AFS is recruiting chairs and co-chairs for several committees!

1. Meetings Oversight Committee - Co-chair
2. Board of Professional Certification - Chair
3. Communications Committee - Co-chair
4. Professional Development Committee - Co-chair
5. Membership Committee – Co-chair
6. Resource Policy Committee -Co-chair
7. Development Committee – Chair and Co-chair

Contact Lauren Maza (lmaza@fisheries.org) for additional information or to be put into contact with existing/past chairs. Descriptions of the various AFS committees are available here.