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Status of White Sturgeon in the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia VOL 38 NO 5 FisheriesAmerican Fisheries Society • www.fisheries.org MAY 2013 Let’s Put on a Show! The Sturgeon Hero Atlantic Sturgeon and Robots SEE INSERT Science, Stewardship, and Sturgeon Researching Scaphirhynchus Sturgeon Undergoing Sex Reversal “It’s The Habitat, Stupid!” The Man Who Named Fish Sick Fish, Sick River 03632415(2013)38(5) NMT Research Grants Up to $15,000 in NMT’s equipment will be distributed to one or more recipients. Apply by Sep 10, 2013. Northwest Marine Technology (NMT) is pleased Coded Wire TagsTM to continue our Innovative Research Grants to support fish and wildlife research and management. For 2013, the grants will have a total value of $15,000 in NMT’s products to be Visible Implant distributed to one or more recipients. Elastomer TagsTM Whether you are an existing customer or have never used our products before, we encourage you to apply. Applications are welcome from any country and from any agency or institution. A wide range of projects will be considered. We are particularly interested in supporting innovative projects that use our tags in a new way, or use the information gathered from a tagging project in a new way. The grants can be applied only toward the purchase or rental of any product sold by NMT, and have no cash value. Visible Implant TM Alpha Tags Applications will be evaluated on the scientific merits of the research and the innovative use of our products. Grants will be awarded at the sole discretion of NMT. Recipients will be announced at the AFS Annual Meeting in Littlerock. For more details, please visit our website or contact Geraldine Vander Haegen ([email protected]; 360.709.6800). Northwest Marine Technology, Inc. www.nmt.us Shaw Island, Washington, USA Corporate Office Biological Services 360.468.3375 [email protected] 360.596.9400 [email protected] NMT Research Grants Fisheries VOL 38 NO 5 MAY 2013 Contents Up to $15,000 in NMT’s COLUMNS President’s Hook Rick Hansen (in boat) and FRSCS volunteer Fred Helmer near Mission, British Columbia, in 2004 with a mature White Sturgeon that has been equipment will be distributed 195 Meeting Our Meeting Responsibility 217 tagged and measured prior to release back into the Fraser River. Hosting an annual meeting of between 1,500 and 4,000 Photo credit: FRSCS. to one or more recipients. attendees is no simple task. Apply by Sep 10, 2013. John Boreman—AFS President RESEARCH 221 Researching the Physiology and Culture of Fish Habitat Connections Scaphirhynchus Sturgeon 196 Habitat Connects Us All TM In addition to needing to better understand the Northwest Marine Technology (NMT) is pleased Coded Wire Tags “It’s the habitat, stupid!” Famous words uttered by Nathaniel Scaphirhynchus sturgeon’s requirements for successful to continue our Innovative Research Grants to Shaw Bingham (1937–1998), a retired commercial fisher culture and management efforts, this extant genus of fish turned habitat activist in northern California, in response to a provides an important perspective into vertebrate evolution. support fish and wildlife research and question about how to rebuild depleted fish stocks that were management. For 2013, the grants will have a not responding to conventional harvest constraints. Brian C. Small and Elliott C. Kittel total value of $15,000 in NMT’s products to be Visible Implant Thomas E. Bigford BIOGRAPHY distributed to one or more recipients. Elastomer TagsTM Guest Director’s Line 224 Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, 1783–1840 235 The Susquehanna River—A Fishery in Decline Ever wondered about the people who named our fishes? Whether you are an existing customer or have How many diseased smallmouth are necessary for a river to Daniel W. Coble never used our products before, we encourage be listed as an impaired water on the 303(d) list? you to apply. Applications are welcome from any John A. Arway and Geoffrey Smith STUDENT ANGLE country and from any agency or institution. A FEATURES 227 Tagging Black Sea Bass for Sex Change Data wide range of projects will be considered. We are Are female Black Sea Bass undergoing sex reversal at small- particularly interested in supporting innovative 197 Status of White Sturgeon in the Lower Fraser River, er and smaller sizes to replace males caught by fishermen? projects that use our tags in a new way, or use British Columbia Mikaela Provost Key findings from the first 12 years of the Lower Fraser River the information gathered from a tagging project White Sturgeon Monitoring and Assessment Program. UNIT NEWS in a new way. The grants can be applied only Troy C. Nelson, William J. Gazey, Karl K. English, and Marvin 228 AFS Genetics Section Members Attend Meeting toward the purchase or rental of any product sold L. Rosenau on “Next Generation” DNA Sequencing for Fisheries by NMT, and have no cash value. Research in Southeast Asia Visible Implant 210 Shrinking the Haystack: Using an AUV in an TM Alpha Tags Integrated Ocean Observatory to Map Atlantic Sturgeon in Marissa Jones Applications will be evaluated on the scientific the Coastal Ocean merits of the research and the innovative use of A mission demonstrating how underwater robots in an ocean IN MEMORIAM our products. Grants will be awarded at the sole observatory focuses the mosaic of coastal ocean habitats 230 Gary D. “Dox” Doxtater into Atlantic Sturgeon management insights. discretion of NMT. Recipients will be announced 231 John D. (Jack) McIntyre at the AFS Annual Meeting in Littlerock. Matthew J. Oliver, Matthew W. Breece, Dewayne A. Fox, Danielle E. Haulsee, Josh T. Kohut, John Manderson, and LITTLE ROCK MEETING UPDATE Tom Savoy For more details, please visit our website or 233 Booth Reservation Form contact Geraldine Vander Haegen INTERVIEW 234 Continuing Education Program ([email protected]; 360.709.6800). 217 Rick Hansen: Sturgeon Hero NEW AFS MEMBERS 237 The White Sturgeon needed rescuing. To the rescue: Rick Hansen—one of our newest AFS members. Famous for his Man In Motion World Tour—as well as one of the torchbear- JOURNAL HIGHLIGHTS ers who brought the flame into the stadium to light the torch in the 2010 Winter Olympics—Rick has set out to save the 239 North American Journal of Fisheries Management, Northwest Marine Technology, Inc. White Sturgeon in the lower Fraser River in British Columbia. Volume 33, Number 2, April 2013 www.nmt.us Shaw Island, Washington, USA CALENDAR Cover: Carlin Fenn weighs a sturgeon to monitor growth while Lucas Corporate Office Biological Services Nelson looks on. 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