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2 Mentors Needed for Hutton Program, Summer 2017 Urgent – We have 2 Hutton Scholars looking for mentors near Encinitas or Palmdale for summer 2017. Mentors must be within 1 hour of students’ home (Encinitas or Palmdale). AFS pays their scholarship, no cost to hosting organization. The Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program is a paid... Read More
We have new postings for job, scholarship, and travel grant opportunities! These include a number of NOAA Fisheries positions, four Undergraduate Travel Assistance Awards for the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting 2017, and scholarships offered by the California Lake Management Society (CALMS), Diablo Valley Flyfishermen, and the Yolo Basin Foundation with due dates in May... Read More
The program for the Cal-Neva Chapter of the American Fisheries Society 51st Annual Meeting is now available. Please also see the Annual Meeting Website page for last minute meeting updates. DOWNLOAD the Meeting Program, VISIT the full Annual Meeting Site, REGISTER for the meeting now at the EventBrite site, April 5-7, 2017, Eureka, CA The Sequoia... Read More
As part of the Delta Smelt Resiliency Strategy, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is coordinating a multi-agency effort to examine if and how hatchery propagated Delta smelt could be utilized to aide in species recovery. Towards this goal DWR, DFW, USFWS, USBR and the American Fisheries Society CAL-NEVA Chapter have organized a workshop... Read More
In order to assess its progress towards achieving its mission, the Chapter conducted a review of its activities that supported the 2016 Strategic Plan. The assessment is presented in the performance Report Card on the 2016 Strategic Plan, available on the Governance page. Read More
Real Good Fish brown-bag talk on sustainable seafood, a Santa Cruz-Monterey Bay Area Subunit event. February 13, 2017 at 12 noon. Location: UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Ocean Health, room 118. Real Good Fish is a community supported fishery based out of Moss Landing, CA. It’s like a CSA, only with seafood. Read More
We had 367 registered attendees over 3 full days, 109 oral presentations, 3 continuing education classes attended by nearly 90 members, 2 tours and a full day workshop on tidal marsh restoration. Many Thanks…. On behalf of the planning committee and the executive committee we cannot thank you all enough for attending. This was by... Read More
