AFS Year-End Book Sale

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AFS is offering more than 100 publications at greatly reduced prices. From December 9, 2024 through January 17, 2025, take advantage of our Year-End Book Sale and save on selected titles. Complete your science library at dramatically reduced prices, starting at just $6.00! No refunds or returns on this special offer. These reduced-priced titles are available through our online bookstore only, and sale applies to the complete hard-copy book only, not PDF downloads or ebook purchases. See the list of sale titles.

Coregonine Science Webinar: Using telemetry to study Cisco movement and behavior in Lakes Superior and Ontario – January 3, 2025

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Using telemetry to study Cisco movement and behavior in Lakes Superior and Ontario

January 3, 2025 12:30 PM (EST)

Kyle Stratton (OMNR) & Alex Gatch (USGS)

Registration link: https://bit.ly/3Zk1MzK

AFS-OC Membership Update

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As of December 3, 2024, the Ontario Chapter has 121 paid members! The membership includes 57 regular, 36 student, 15 young professional, 12 retired and 1 life members. Have you renewed your membership for 2025? Are you a member yet? If not, see the Become a Member page to find out why you should join. AFS individual members receive free online access to all five American Fisheries Society journals. Join or renew TODAY and don’t forget to contact the AFS Membership Team at membership@fisheries.org to add the Ontario Chapter to your membership!

85th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference – January 19-22, 2025

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85th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, St. Louis, Missouri

Theme “The Road To Resiliency: From Surviving to Thriving in Conservation”

New Link – FishAge.org

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A link to FishAge.org, a collection of verified known-Age fish structures to aid in the advancement of fisheries management, has been added to the Links page under the Fisheries / Natural Resources category.

All Too Clear: Beneath the Surface of the Great Lakes

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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 tiniest plankton to the largest fish – are vanishing, creating vast biological deserts. While the consequences for nature and people are severe, the loss of life has had an extraordinary side effect: it’s made the lakes far clearer than they’ve ever been before. We’ve harnessed this newfound clarity to capture animal behaviours and freshwater environments that have never been filmed before.

All 3 “All Too Clear” episodes are now streaming Canada-wide on TVO Today Docs.

New Link – Fishionary

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A link to Fishionary, a blog about fish words, has been added to the Links page under the Fisheries / Natural Resources category.

Call for Bids to prepare status reports for COSEWIC

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A new Call for Bids to prepare status reports for COSEWIC is now posted on the COSEWIC Website. Bids may be submitted between November 6 and December 18, 2024. For more complete information, see www.cosewic.ca/index.php/en/news-and-events/call-for-bids-2024.html.

2024-2025 AFS-OC Executive Committee Election Results

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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 23 members participated in the election, representing approximately 20% of the membership.

Benjamin Hlina was elected to the position of President-Elect with 100% of the vote. The term of office for President-Elect is one year, leading to the position of President in 2025-26, and Past-President the following year.

Connor Reid was elected to the position of Vice President with 100% of the vote.  The term for the position of Vice President is at least one year; however, it is preferred to serve more than one term.