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Welcome to The NY Chapter afs!
The mission of the New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society is to improve the conservation and sustainability of fishery resources and aquatic ecosystems by advancing fisheries and aquatic science and by promoting the development of fisheries professionals.
Welcome our new president :
From the President...
Wow! As I write this we have just concluded “The winter that wasn’t” with record shattering warmth in
March. Although we had plenty of safe ice in the North Country, it is the first year since college (a very
long time) that I didn’t go ice fishing. With streams already at their summer lows let’s hope for
consistent rainfall, but no hurricanes or tropical storms, the rest of the year.
Congratulations to past president Ed Woltmann and his arrangement co-chair Joelle Ernst, on our
excellent annual chapter meeting in Lake Placid, the home of our highly successful 2006 parent society
meeting. Program Chairs Don Einhouse and Jeff Loukmas, assembled some remarkable speakers
especially for the special session on “Black Bass Management in the Northeast”. Who would have
thought that bass in the northern part of their range would behave differently than those to the south?
Workshops coordinated by Chris VanMaaren on Mussel ID and Leadership were also well received.
Kudos also to our special awards recipients. The Good Ole Boys BASS club was the winners of the
Conservationist of the Year Award. They have voluntarily helped maintain and installed fishing line
receptacles at many of our boat launch sites in Central Ney York. Chuck Nieder of the NYSDEC Steam
Electric Unit was a co-winner of the professional achievement award. His work on minimizing the
impacts to aquatic resources from impingement and entrainment has literally saved millions of fish.
Sadly, longtime member and friend, Stephen Mooradian, received his professional achievement award
posthumously. His family and friends were there to receive the award.
For the first time we had a tie for the best student paper awards between Christina Killourhy and
Margaret Luebs. The best student poster award went to Alex Koeberle. Alejandro Reyes and Katherine
De Vilbiss won student travel awards.
With the election of Tony VanDeValk as president and Scott Schlueter as secretary-treasurer, the
chapter will be in good hands in the future.
As I mentioned in my bibliography last year, I am still optimistic on job opportunities within the state.
My agency has recently hired 10 Fish Culturist 1s and three biologists (two in ecology and one in
wildlife). Our budget is flat for the next year but at least it is not decreasing like the past three years.
Through normal attrition positions should hopefully be backfilled. Other agencies and not for profits
have also been hiring using funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and other grants. Also
the biologist 1 exam or recruitment process will be opened sometime this year. We will post the
announcement and all job vacancies received on our chapter website.
Frank Flack
NYC AFS President
Meeting Pictures: coming soon!!!