Ian Kelmartin on West Coast fisheries
Ian Kelmartin is an early career professional in fisheries and a member of AFS. He highlights his professional position in West Coast fisheries and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted his job. I’m a...
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Sam Schaick on Fisheries and the Covid-19 Quarantine
Covid-19 has widely disrupted the nation’s sense of normalcy and the same is true for fisheries students and professionals. For a few its “business as usual” but for many people in fisheries, the environment...
The Iowa State Student Subunit
Author: Sam Grinstead, President of the Iowa State University Student Subunit Spring Semester 2020 has been a busy and formative time for our subunit. Activities have included the Iowa Chapter meeting, bi-monthly scientific...
Paul DeRolf on the underappreciated fishes of the Midwest
Paul DeRolf has been an active member of AFS since 2014. He has served as the President of the Ball State University’s (BSU) Student Subunit of AFS for the past year and is an...
Caleb Yann, Mt. Hood Community College AFS Student Subunit
My name is Caleb Yann, and I have been an active member of the American Fisheries Society since 2018. I am currently the vice president of the Mt. Hood Community College Student Subunit of...
Rebecca Krogman on Advanced Fingerling Walleye Research
Walleyes stocked this week will help fisheries biologists in future stocking decisions. Spawned this past spring then raised at the Department of Natural Resources’ Rathbun Hatchery, the 8- to 10-inch advanced fingerlings join walleyes...
Natalie Sopinka on The Plight of the Salmon
The plight of the salmon Traversing the coast along the Pacific Northwest into the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada is a picturesque and mesmerizing experience, unless you are a sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)...
Landon Pierce on Paddlefish Research
Paddlefish Research The work of graduate student Landon Pierce, of Lincoln, Neb., moves from rolling hills and pine tree habitat of the swift fox underwater as he studies the American paddlefish. The billed fish...
An Interview with Andrew Carlson
Major: Natural Resource Management, Fisheries Science Expected Graduation Year: Spring 2015 What inspired you to attend SDSU? During my senior year at the University of Minnesota I searched for a nationally-recognized graduate program, a fascinating...