Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes, second edition

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Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes, second edition (DOI: https://doi.org/10.47886/978193487469) 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!

Employment Opportunities – Anishinabek/Ontario Fisheries Resource Centre

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The Anishinabek/Ontario Fisheries Resource Centre (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 Community Liaison Specialist, Senior Fisheries Technician, Senior Fisheries Biologist, or Office Manager for further details and to apply.

Volume XXII, Issue I – The Lateral Line

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HIGHLIGHTS:

2024 AFS-OC AGM & Conference Summary
Student Subunit Update
Diversity and Inclusion – Sarah Steele
Redside Dace ESA Letter
Fish Focus – Iowa Darter – Siobhan Ewert
Book Review – A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road: New Thinking about Roads, People, and Wildlife. by Darryl Jones
Books by Ontario Biologists
2024 AFS-OC AGM Sponsors

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