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.

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.

Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes, second edition

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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 structure, and condition for individual species are supplied to facilitate comparisons of standard data among populations. Provides information on converting nonstandard to standard data, statistical and database procedures for analyzing and storing standard data, and methods to prevent transfer of invasive species while sampling.

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155th American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting – August 10-14, 2025

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AFS 2025, San Antonio, Texas

Theme “Headwaters to Saltwater: Understanding the Past, Protecting the Future, 155 years of AFS”

AFS-OC Comments on Recovery Strategy and Action Plan for the Redside Dace

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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 recovery measures and their priority ranking, an aim stated in the Recovery Strategy. View AFS-OC Comments.

Employment Opportunity – General Manager

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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 an independent Centre of Excellence in fisheries assessment and management.

The A/OFRC is a not-for-profit corporation established by agreement between the Grand Council Chief of the Anishinabek Nation and the Ontario Minister of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry to further the knowledge and conservation of fisheries resources of interest to member First Nations.

See the job notice for further details and to apply.

The Dolly Varden – Summer 2024

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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!