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Upcoming Meetings:
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.
First call for papers :
New York Chapter American Fisheries Society
Annual Meeting
February 1st- 3rd, 2012
Lake Placid, NY
First Call for Papers
The New York Chapter American Fisheries Society is looking for contributed papers or posters for the 2012 Annual Meeting being held February 1st to 3rd at the High Peaks Resort in Lake Placid. Please contact Don Einhouse (716-366-0228) with questions, or submit an abstract to dweinhou@gw.dec.state.ny.us following the instructions below;
When submitting your abstract:
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Use a brief, descriptive title and avoid acronyms or scientific names in the title unless the common name is not widely known;
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List all authors, their affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses;
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Provide a summary of your findings and restrict your abstract to 200 words;
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Abstracts must be in Microsoft Word format.
Oral presentations are limited to 20 minutes (15 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for speaker introduction and questions). All oral presentations must use PowerPoint format. Abstracts for oral presentations and posters must be received by December 28th, 2011.
Meeting Venue and Theme:
Our meeting will be held February 1-3, 2012 at the High Peaks Resort in Lake Placid. We are planning on a very topical meeting with a plenary session theme of “Partnerships -Working Collaboratively to Effectively Manage Our Fisheries” and invited presentations from an array of distinguished leaders who will speak to a variety of effective inter-agency and inter-jurisdictional partnerships utilized between State, Federal, Provincial and private fisheries professionals to protect and enhance our fisheries resources. We are also convening a special session on black bass management in the northeast, which includes featured presentations by the co-editors of the benchmark 2002 AFS Black Bass Symposium and a panel discussion with expected participation by prominent black bass researchers, managers and angler groups.
Check out Candidate Biographies Here...