All Too Clear uses cutting-edge underwater drones to explore how quadrillions of tiny invasive mussels are re-engineering the ecosystem of North America’s Great Lakes at a scale not seen since the glaciers. The mussels are trapping nutrients, the building blocks of life, on the lake bottom. Without nutrients, organisms of all kinds – from the […]
A link to Fishionary, a blog about fish words, has been added to the Links page under the Fisheries / Natural Resources category.
The results of the 2024-25 Ontario Chapter Executive Committee election are official. Thank you to all candidates and congratulations to those elected. As per our bylaws, all Ontario Chapter members were eligible to vote and officers were elected by a majority of ballots cast. Each member was permitted to cast one vote. A total of […]
2025 AFS-OC AGM, University of Guelph
Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes, second edition provides standard sampling methods recommended by the American Fisheries Society for assessing and monitoring freshwater fish populations in North America. Methods apply to ponds, reservoirs, natural lakes, and streams and rivers containing cold and warmwater fishes. Range-wide and eco-regional averages for indices of abundance, population […]
AFS 2025, San Antonio, Texas Theme “Headwaters to Saltwater: Understanding the Past, Protecting the Future, 155 years of AFS”
SCAS 2025, Hamilton, Ontario
The Ontario Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (AFS-OC) has provided comments on the Recovery Strategy and Action Plan for the Redside Dace (Clinostomus elongatus) in Canada prepared by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Although the comment period for the Recovery Strategy has passed, it is hoped that this information will be used to update […]
The Anishinabek/Ontario Fisheries Resource Centre (A/OFRC) is seeking a visionary General Manager to lead our dedicated team, manage daily operations, and guide the strategic direction of our organization. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the General Manager will play a key role in enabling the A/OFRC to achieve its mission and enhance its role as […]
Check out the latest edition of the CARS Newsletter. Have YOUR say in how CARS moves forward (Message from the President and VP Strategies), learn all about a prospective outreach opportunity helping students connect robotics and ecology AND read about migration and barrier research! Read the Dolly Varden Summer 2024 here!
Coregonine Science Webinar: Challenges in producing fish in hatcheries for restoration efforts, from gamete quality to transport stress – February 7, 2025January 8, 2025 - 12:27
85th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference – January 19-22, 2025November 21, 2024 - 15:43
AFS-OC Annual Meeting and Conference – March 21-23, 2025November 14, 2024 - 18:35
155th American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting – August 10-14, 2025November 14, 2024 - 17:36
Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences Conference – February 19-22, 2025November 1, 2024 - 15:00While you're shopping the AFS bookstore sale, check out the search for the next TAFS editor-in-chief! If you're a scientist with a broad perspective on fisheries with ideas about the future of AFS journals, consider applying. See full details at https://bit.ly/3BAnqrA
Graduate opportunities in the Wilkie Lab @ #LaurierBiology! Both #MSc and #PhD students being recruited, with Sept/May 2025 starting dates! Application info below! Please RT!
