Friendly reminder that presentation recordings from the 2024 World Fisheries Congress are still available to view on the app, whether you attended in person or online. The authors would love if you left them a comment or a question or even a question that is more of a comment!

WFC photos are now available from the official Congress photographer, Tanner Scholten. Click the link below to see photos from the plenary sessions, poster and exhibit hall, networking events, and more on Tanner's website. 

On February 29, AFS hosted a Congressional briefing on the status of wild salmon and steelhead stocks in the Snake River basin. The briefing touched on the lifecycle of Pacific salmon, increased peril for the fish in the face of climate change, and the latest unambiguous science supporting the urgent need to remove the four dams on the lower Snake River. In January 2023, AFS approved a policy statement about the need to breach the dams on the lower Snake River.

We’re looking for individuals to serve on Publications Awards Subcommittees—specifically for Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, or Marine and Coastal Fisheries. AFS members at all levels are invited to participate: graduate students, postdocs, faculty, agency biologists, managers, etc. Contact Committee Chair Allison Pease if interested (peasea@missouri.edu).

NOAA scientists may now publish open access in any AFS journal at no cost to the author. Similar deals are in place for many agencies and universities. Check under your country or location to see if you are covered today.

In Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, the largest inland population of nonhybridized Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout declined throughout the 2000s because of predation from invasive Lake Trout, drought, and whirling disease. To maintain ecosystem function and conserve Cutthroat Trout, a Lake Trout gill netting suppression program was established in 1995, decreasing Lake Trout abundance and biomass. Yet, the response of Cutthroat Trout to varying Lake Trout suppression levels, collectively with the influence of disease and climate, is unknown. The authors developed an ecosystem model (calibrated to historical data) to forecast (2020–2050) whether Cutthroat Trout would achieve recovery benchmarks given disease, varying suppression effort, and climate change. 

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