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VOL 33 NO 5 MAY 2008 Fish News Legislative Update Journal Highlights FisheriesAmerican Fisheries Society • www.fisheries.org Calendar Job Center Demonstration Flow Assessment: Judgement and Visual Observation in Instream Flow Studies Management Concerns about Known and Potential Impacts of Lead Use in Shooting and Fishing Activities Fisheries • v o l 33 n o 5• m a y 2008 • w w w .f i s h e r i e s .o r g 209 Bringing Back Winter Flounder Hatchery reared winter flounder are tagged with fluorescent red Visible Implant Elastomer to distinguish them from wild fish after release. Dr. Fairchild releases the flounder into shallow coastal waters at a length of about 40 mm. now evaluating how well the released fish contribute The winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus to the natural populations and developing strategies is an important commercial and recreational fish to maximize post release survival3. along much of North America’s Atlantic coast. Inshore habitat degradation and overfishing An essential aspect of the investigation is the ability contributed to stock declines throughout their range, to identify individuals derived from the release leaving catches at a fraction of historical levels. program. This is achieved using NMT’s Visible Reducing fishing mortality and protecting essential Implant Elastomer (VIE). Critical characteristics of habitat have helped stocks to begin recovery, but VIE include the ability to tag small fish, the capacity they still have a long way to go. to identify different batches of fish, the rapid rate of tagging that can be achieved, and the low cost tag. To accelerate the recovery of winter flounder, researchers in New Hampshire, led by Dr. Elizabeth Please contact us to discuss our systems for tagging Fairchild, are developing and evaluating a stock aquatic organisms. enhancement program. They have established the culture techniques for winter flounder, determined 1. Fairchild EA, Howell WH. 2000. J. Sea Research 44(1-2):81-90. the optimal size for releasing juveniles for predator 2. Fairchild EA et al. 2005. Aquacul. Res. 36(14):1374-1383. avoidance1 and evaluated release sites2. They are 3. Fairchild EA, Howell WH. 2004. J. Fish Biol. 65:69-87. Northwest Marine Technology, Inc. www.nmt.us Shaw Island, Washington, USA Northwest Marine Technology, Inc. Corporate Office Biological Services 360.468.3375 [email protected] 360.596.9400 [email protected] 210 Fisheries • v o l 33 n o 5 • m a y 2008 • w w w .f i s h e r i e s .o r g VOL 33 NO 5 MAY 2008 AmericFisheriesAn Fisheries society • www.Fisheries.org EDITORIAL / SUBSCRIPTION / CIRCULatiON OFFICES 5410 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 110 • Bethesda, MD 20814-2199 301/897-8616 • fax 301/897-8096 • [email protected] The American Fisheries Society (AFS), founded in 1870, is the oldest and largest professional society representing fisheries scientists. The AFS promotes scientific research and enlightened management of aquatic resources for optimum use and enjoyment by the public. It also encourages comprehensive education of fisheries scientists and continuing on-the-job training. AFS FISHERIES EDITORS OFFICERS STAFF SENIOR EDITOR SCIENCE EDITORS COLUMN: COLUMN: PRESIDENT Ghassan “Gus” N. Madeleine Mary C. Fabrizio Rassam Hall-Arber 212 PreSIDent'S HOOK 237 DIreCtOr'S LInE PREsiDENT ElECT DIRECTOR OF Ken Ashley Who are We? Initiating a Dialogue to Climate, Fisheries and Wildlife William G. Franzin PUBLICATIONS Doug Beard Define Our Core Values and Purpose Climate change issues continue to gain public FIRST Aaron Lerner Ken Currens Highlights of preliminary impressions of VICE PRESIDENT mAnAging attention, and AFS has been a leader in William E. Kelso Donald C. Jackson EDITOR the responses to the AFS membership offering symposia examining climate change Deirdre M. Kimball SECOND Beth Beard survey, which was distributed electronically Robert T. Lackey and its effects on fisheries. VICE PRESIDENT PRODUCTION to a random sample of AFS members. Gus Rassam Wayne A. Hubert EDITOR Dennis Lassuy PAST PRESIDENT Cherie Worth Allen Rutherford Mary C. Fabrizio Jennifer L. Nielsen Book review EXECUTIVE EDITORS NEWS: DIRECTOR Francis Juanes NEWS: 238 AFS UNITS Ghassan “Gus” N. Ben Letcher Rassam Keith Nislow 213 FISHERIES AFS CONSTITUTION AND RULES: Dues and fees for 2008 are $76 in North America UPDATE: 241 PrOPOSeD ($88 elsewhere) for regular members, $19 in North America ($22 elsewhere) for student members, and $38 214 LegISLAtIOn AnD AmenDmentS ($44) retired members. Fees include $19 for Fisheries POLICY subscription. Nonmember and library subscription rates are $106 ($127). Price per copy: $3.50 member; $6 Elden Hawkes, Jr. EDITORIAL: nonmember. Fisheries (ISSN 0363-2415) is published 242 fisherIeS FOrum monthly by the American Fisheries Society; 5410 truth, Faith, and transparency Grosvenor Lane, Suite 110; Bethesda, MD 20814-2199 FISHERIES CURRENTS: in Peer review—Perspectives on ©copyright 2008. Periodicals postage paid at Bethesda, 215 SCIenCe neWS FrOm AFS Maryland, and at an additional mailing office. A copy of the AFS Peer review Process Fisheries Guide for Authors is available from the editor or Steven J. Cooke the AFS website, www.fisheries.org. If requesting from the JOURNAL HIGHLIGHTS: managing editor, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request. Republication or systematic 216 TrAnSACtIOnS OF CALENDAR: or multiple reproduction of material in this publication tHe AmerICAn FISHerIeS is permitted only under consent or license from the 243 FISHerIeS eVentS American Fisheries Society. Postmaster: Send address SOCIetY changes to Fisheries, American Fisheries Society; 5410 COLUMN: Grosvenor Lane, Suite 110; Bethesda, MD 20814-2199. FEATURE: 246 STUDENTS' ANGLE Fisheries is printed on 10% post-consumer 217 FISHERIES RESEARCH Student Peer reviewer: recycled paper with soy-based printing inks. Demonstration Flow Assessment: Benefits for the Profession Judgment and Visual Observation and the Student in Instream Flow Studies Steven H. Ranney Instream flows studies based on visual Advertising Index observation of alternative flows are OBITUARIES: increasingly popular. With the right 248 GeOrge rIDgway AnD techniques, they can be quantative and Advanced Telemetry Systems . 259 credible. CArL eLDOn BOnD Steven F. Railsback and John Kadvany Emperor Aquatics, Inc. 240 UPDATE: Floy Tag . 233 FEATURE: 249 LegISLAtIOn AnD Forestry Suppliers, Inc. 239 228 FISHERIES POLICY Halltech Aquatic Research, Inc. 231 MANAGEMENT Management Concerns about Known PUBLICATIONS: Hydroacoustic Technology, Inc. 260 and Potential Impacts of Lead Use in 250 NEW TITLES Llittle River Research and Design . 227 Shooting and in Fishing Activities The authors summarize the AFS-TWS UPDATE: Northwest Marine Technology, Inc. 210 technical review that discusses biological 252 AnnuAL meetIng hazards to fish, wildlife, and humans resulting PLenAry SeSSION Ocean Marine, Inc. 235 from exposure to lead ammunition and fishing tackle. O.S. Systems . 237 ANNOUNCEMENTS: Chris I. Goddard, Nancy J. Leonard, Doug L. Sonotronics . 241 Stang, P. Jack Wingate, Barnett A. Rattner, 255 JOB CenteR Vemco . 221 J. Christian Franson, and Steven R. Sheffield Vemco . 223 COVER: Small lead sinkers may be more likely to be consumed by waterfowl than larger Tell advertisers you found them through sinkers. Fisheries! CREDIT: Beth Beard, AFS Fisheries • v o l 33 n o 5• m a y 2008 • w w w .f i s h e r i e s .o r g 211 Highlights of preliminary impressions of the responses to the AFS membership survey, which was distributed electronically to a random sample of AFS members. mary C. Fabrizio COLUMN: AFS President Fabrizio PreSIDent'S HOOk can be contacted at [email protected]. Who are We? Initiating a Dialogue to Define Our Core Values and Purpose Professional associations reflect the believe we have information that can dialogue on the future of world fisher- collective desires and ideas of their help us initiate this critical dialogue. ies. It is clear that AFS members place members; successful associations are One source of this information is the high value on our chosen profession those that adapt to membership changes recent AFS membership survey. A thor- and we desire increased awareness of and the new ideas or desires associated ough and detailed report on the results the potential contribution of fisheries with such changes. For example, the of this survey will be delivered to the professionals to deliberations on envi- American Fisheries Society grew from an AFS Governing Board at the 2008 AFS ronmental matters—matters that have association primarily comprised of fish Annual Meeting in Ottawa. Here, I simply increasingly become the focus of media culturists (in the 1870s) to an association wish to highlight my preliminary impres- attention. We view ourselves as contribu- with members who practiced fisheries sions of the responses we received. The tors of reasoned scientific information, science in all its diversity; this growth was membership survey was distributed but we are concerned that our collective accompanied by changes in the desires electronically to a random sample of AFS knowledge is rarely tapped, unless the of the Society. Instead of promoting members, and to our pleasant surprise, environmental issue specifically involves a single discipline (i.e., aquaculture of over 55% of the recipients responded. fisheries (e.g., endangered salmonids, fish species), AFS promoted aquacul- As I considered the tabulated or overfishing of large pelagic species). ture, fisheries management, fish health,