The Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, will feature approximately 200 contributed presentations. These presentations complement the nearly 500 oral presentations scheduled for the 32 symposia by supporting this year’s conference theme “Fisheries Conservation and Management: Making Connections and Building Partnerships.” The contributed sessions represent partnerships with tribal, state, federal, nonprofit, university and private sector; and research and collaborations from all parts of North American as well as Denmark, France, Ireland, Pakistan, Poland, and the United Kingdom. These presentations will provide insight into a diverse array of topics, reflecting the diversity of American Fisheries Society members and the broad research projects being conducted around the world. The contributed sessions will focus on both freshwater and marine research on numerous fish species including sharks, salmonids, paddlefish, lobster, sturgeon, lamprey, and blue crab as well as lower trophic level organisms including phytoplankton and zooplankton. Some research topics include freshwater and marine fisheries management and population dynamics, river restoration, technological advances, statistical approaches, trophic and nutrient dynamics, genetics, and culture. There will be plenty of interesting presentations for everyone!
Contributed Paper Session Topics
- Salmonids
- Freshwater Fisheries Management
- Sturgeon and Paddlefish
- Ecology and Life History
- Movement and Aquatic Organism Passage
- Fish Culture
- Fish Conservation
- Marine Fisheries Management
- Carp Ecology and Management
- River Restoration
- Genetics
- Fish and Cooling Water Intakes
- Modeling and Statistics
- Sampling Strategies
Poster Session
Approximately 100 posters will be presented covering a wide-range of topics including:
- Application of analytical approaches
- Bivalve conservation and ecology
- Climate impacts on fish and fisheries
- Commercial fisheries
- Cooperative fisheries research in marine and freshwater systems
- Endangered species ecology
- Fish behavior
- Management of sportfish and non-game species
- Fish conservation and ecology
- Fish culture
- Fish nutrition and diet
- Fish growth, aging, and condition
- Freshwater fisheries management
- Genetics of fish and fisheries
- Habitat ecology and quality
- Habitat restoration
- Invasive species control
- Influence of lotic flow regimes on growth, recruitment, and survival
- Marine fish population dynamics
- Techniques in fisheries science
- Parasites and disease
- Programs and policy
- Urban stream ecology
- Water quality and streamflow