American Fisheries Society
New York Chapter
Annual Meeting and Workshop Program
February 1st- 3rd, 2012

 

 Wednesday, February 1, 2012

8:00-12:00 PM          Mussel Identification Workshop  (Great Range)

1:00-3:00 PM            Leadership Workshop  (Great Range)

3:00-5:00 PM            Brook Trout Committee Meeting  (Great Range)

5:00-7:00 PM            New York Chapter Executive Meeting  (Marcy Boardroom)

7:00-8:00 PM            Registration (Avalanche Pass)

7:00-11:00 PM          Welcome Social (Sentinel Range)

Thursday AM, February 2, 2012

7:00-8:15 AM            Coffee & Registration (Avalanche Pass) 

Partnerships - Working Collaboratively to Effectively Manage Our Fisheries (McIntyre Range)   Moderator Phil Hulbert, NYS DEC, Chief, Bureau of Fisheries

8:15 AM         Ed Woltmann, NYC AFS - President – Welcome

8:25 AM         Joseph Martens, NYS DEC, Commissioner – Opening Remarks

8:40 AM         Bill Fisher, Cornell U. - Cooperative Research Units:  A Collaborative Fisheries Research Partnership between Universities and Agencies

9:10 AM         Doug Stang, NYSDEC - The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture – A Fish Habitat Partnership

9:40 AM         Ron Essig, USFWS - New York Fisheries Partnerships:  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Perspective

10:10 AM       Break

10:30 AM       Jim Johnson, USGS - Interagency Fisheries Partnering in the 21st Century: a Specific look at Effective Management and Research Collaboration

11:00 AM       Marc Gaden, GLFC - Multi-Jurisdictional Management of the Shared Great Lakes Fishery: Partnerships to Transcend Conflict and Diffuse Political Authority

11:30 AM       Rob Southwick, Southwick Associates - Partnerships to Market Sportfishing

 

Thursday PM, February 2, 2012

12:00-1:00 PM          Lunch (Great Range)

 

Black Bass Management in the Northeast (McIntyre Range)
Moderator Mark Malchoff, SUNY Plattsburgh & Lake Champlain Sea Grant

1:00 PM         Cory Suski, University of Illinois - Factors affecting parental care decisions in male bass

1:20 PM         Dave Philipp, IL Natural History Survey - Impacts of angling on recruitment and bass behavior

1:40 PM         Mark Ridgway, Harkness Lab, Ontario, CA - Smallmouth bass and climate change: signs of a new Bronze Age

2:00 PM         Shaun Keeler, NYSDEC - Black bass management in New York State “An Overview”

2:20 PM         Don Einhouse, NYSDEC - Management & dynamics of smallmouth bass in New York’s Lake Erie waters

2:40 PM         Break

3:00 PM         George Maynard, SUNY Plattsburgh - Post-tournament dispersal of black bass following tournament events on Lake Champlain

3:20 PM         Geof Eckerlin, SUNY ESF - Smallmouth bass nesting in the St. Lawrence River: Have strategies shifted in the wake of key biological invasions?

3:40 PM         Randy Jackson, Cornell U. - Opening a spring catch-and-release bass season in New York State: using the best available information when real science can't help

4:00 PM         Mike Cusano, NY chapter BASS Federation - Fisheries management – bass angler perspectives on NY fisheries and management issues

4:20 PM         Black Bass Management Panel Discussion, panel moderator Mike Flaherty

4:00 - 5:00 PM          Aquatic GAP Analysis Project Meeting (Sentinel Range)

5:00-6:00 PM            New York Chapter Business Meeting (McIntyre Range)

6:00-7:00 PM Poster Social (Avalanche Pass)

Ross Abbett, et al, USGS – Fish Community Structure Associated with the Presence of Lake Sturgeon in the Saint Lawrence River, NY

Alex Alexiades, et al, Cornell U. - Brown trout population dynamics and angling behavior in New York streams

David Andrews, SUNY-ESF - The Effect of Lime Treatment on Aquatic Insect Communities in the Five Ponds Wilderness

Emily Ball and Michael Twiss, Clarkson University, Ecosystem service dynamics along the Saint Lawrence River: Use of plankton to assess water quality in near shore and main channel waters

Doug Carlson, NYSDEC - Fishes of the Adirondacks: the common, the rare and the vagrants

D. E. Dittman and M. A. Chalupnicki, USGS - Distribution and Modeling of Lower Genesee River Fish Habitat

Alex Koeberle, et al, Cornell U. - Growth of hatchery-reared and wild brown trout in the upper Esopus
Creek, New York

Kathleen  Marean, et al, Cornell U. - Trends in the black bass fishery on Oneida Lake, NY 1995-2011

Craig Milewski, Paul Smith’s College - Undergraduate Research in a Small Watershed in the Northern Adirondacks

Heidi, O’Riordan, NYSDEC - In search of the Banded Sunfish

Christian Perry and Bill Fisher, Cornell U. - Summarizing black bass relative abundance and proportional stock density from a New York statewide collection database

Alex Philipchik, et al, SUNY Cobleskill - Effects of Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) on Stream Invertebrate Distribution and Abundance

A J Reyes, et al, SUNY Plattsburgh - Potential method for assessment of black bass condition prior to live release at catch-and-release Tournaments

Jim Ryan, et al, Anchor QEA - Baseline Fish Monitoring Program for the Hudson River Superfund Site

Errol Scheid, et al, USGS - Round goby otolith age interpretation precision and bias: influence of otolith type, reader, and preparation technique

Jason Taylor and Bill Fisher, Cornell U. - Developing flow-ecology hypotheses in support of ecologically based flow recommendations for Lake Ontario and Erie drainages in New York

Emily Waldt, et al, USGS - Land use patterns and presence of threatened and endangered species

Maya Weltman-Fahs, et al, Cornell U. - Hydraulic fracturing and brook trout habitat restoration in the Marcellus Shale: Potential conflicts in an already controversial landscape

Brian Weidel, USGS - Lake Ontario Biological Station: Partners in Science and Management

Brian Weidel, USGS - Lake Ontario Biological Station: Training the Next Generation of Great Lakes Scientists

7:00-10:00 PM   Banquet and Raffle (Great Range)

 

Friday, February 3, 2012

7:00-8:00 AM            Breakfast (Avalanche Pass)

Contributed Paper Session I (McIntyre Range)
Moderator Fred Henson, NYS DEC

8:00 AM         Richard Preall, et al, NYSDEC – Cooperative Efforts to Restore Adirondack Streams – Post Irene

8:20 AM         Geof Eckerlin, SUNY ESF – Long term trends in VHSV in smallmouth bass and trophic dynamics associated with this important pathogen.  

8:40 AM         Laura Coffee, et al, Cornell U. - Two unusual field cases: non-VHSV related fish kills in the Great Lakes

9:00 AM         Geof Groocock, et al, Cornell U. - Pathologic changes associated with coelomic radio-transmitter expulsion and a modified surgical technique for implantation

9:20 AM         Ellen Marsden and Bret Ladago, University of Vermont, The Champlain Canal as an Exotic Species Vector

9:40 AM         Break

10:00 AM       Aude Lochet, et al, University of Vermont - Tracking the natal origin of parasitic sea lamprey using statolith microchemistry  

10:20 AM       Randy Eshenroder, GLFC - Is the sea lamprey native or non-native to Lake Ontario?

10:40 AM       Dimitry Gorsky, et al, USFWS - Habitat use, movement and genetic composition of lake trout found in the Niagara River

11:00 AM       James McKenna, et al, USGS - Great Lakes Aquatic Gap Analysis Multi-scale Applications: Brook Trout and Beyond

11:20 AM       Craig Milewski, Paul Smith’s College - Variation in Fish Species Composition and Densities in Six Stream Reaches over 8 Years in a Small Northern Adirondack Watershed

11:40 AM       Award Presentations

12:00 – 1:00 PM       Lunch (on your own)

Friday, February 3, 2012

7:00-8:00 AM            Breakfast (Avalanche Pass)

Contributed Paper Session I I (McIntyre Range)
Moderator Margaret Murphy, Anchor QEA

8:00 AM         Michele Casto-Yerty, et al, USFWS - Assessment of growth, abundance and survival of lake sturgeon in the lower Niagara River

8:20 AM         Doug Carlson (NYSDEC) and Dawn Dittman (USGS) - Lake sturgeon recovery program

8:40 AM         Chart Guthrie and Heidi O’Riordan, NYSDEC - A comparison of two different walleye stocking rates and their effectiveness in controlling overabundant white perch

9:00 AM         Curtis Buker, et al, SUNY Plattsburgh - Bass Tournament Anglers and Aquatic Invasive Species: Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors

9:20 AM         Kat DeVilbiss and John Farrell, SUNY-ESF - Using metabolic physiology to assess habitat suitability and potential success of sympatric esocids

9:40 AM         Break

10:00 AM       Kevin L. Kapuscinski, et al, SUNY-ESF - Genetic population structure of muskellunge in the Great Lakes

10:20 AM       Christina Killourhy and John Farrell, SUNY-ESF - Does nest site selection and habitat affinity mediate egg predation risk for sympatric sunfishes?

10:40 AM       Margaret Luebs, et al, Cornell U. - Temporal and spatial variability of carbon sources supporting age-0 fish production

11:00 AM       Greg Wooster, et al, Cornell U. - Fatty Liver Syndrome in Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) Cultured in an Aquaponic System

11:20 AM       Tom Hughes, NYS OPRHP - Partnerships for Aquatic Resource Stewardship and Education in NYS Parks

11:40 AM       Award Presentations

12:00 – 1:00 PM       Lunch (on your own)