Volume XII, Issue I – The Lateral Line
President’s Message – Dean Fitzgerald, Featured Institution – Fleming College – Paula Walton, Student Subunit News – Lee Gutowsky, 2012 AFS-OC AGM Notice
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Volume XI, Issue III – The Lateral Line
President’s Message – Dean Fitzgerald, The View from Up Here – Bill Gardner, Featured Biologist – Ed Malindzak, Student Subunit News – Lee Gutowsky
Volume XI, Issue II – The Lateral Line
Editor’s Message – Bill Gardner, 2011 AFS-OC AGM Summary, ThermoStat V2 – Nick Jones, Featured Institution – University of Windsor – Bill Glass
Volume XI, Issue I – The Lateral Line
President’s Message – Silvia D’ Amelio, Contributed Article – Goulais Bay, CARS Student Colloquium at CCFFR – Caleb Hasler, The View from Up Here – Bill Gardner
Wiper Caught in Lake Ontario
While fishing in Lake Ontario off the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (PNGS) this past mid-January, Oakville angler Tim Rourke landed a large “Wiper”, a cross between a White Bass (Morone chrysops) and Striped Bass (M. saxatilis). Rourke boated a 6.8 kilogram specimen of one of the province’s least-known hybrid fish on that balmy -12°C day. […]
Volume X, Issue II – The Lateral Line
President’s Message – Silvia D’ Amelio, 2010 AFS-OC AGM recap – Jon Clayton, Featured Institution – Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology, CARS Update – Caleb Hasler
World Record Rainbow Darter Captured in the Talbot River
When most people brag about a big fish they’ve caught, they hold their arms out wide to show just how huge their catch was. Brent Shirley caught a big fish, too – a world record breaker. But his fish would fit easily in the palm of his hand. Shirley made his record-breaking catch when he […]
Nile Tilapia Captured in the Grand River
Chris Bunt of Biotactic Fish & Wildlife Research recently captured what appears to be a Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), an exotic African fish, in a fish ladder on the Grand River near Hidden Valley. It’s believed to be the first record of the species in Canada and raises the possibility the invasive fish could threaten […]
AFS Response to B.P. Oil Spill
AFS President Don Jackson has been working closely with the other AFS officers and the AFS executive director to develop a plan for responding to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It has been sent to federal agencies. The plan (American Fisheries Society Oil Spill Initiative), in conjunction with the “President’s Hook” in […]
MNR Repsonds to AFS-OC Concerns Regarding Asian Carp
The Minister of Natural Resources has responded to Ontario Chapter concerns regarding the potential for Asian Carp to invade the Great Lakes Basin via the Chicago Shipping Canal.
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