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Denise Spencer Commentary from New President Donna Parrish VOL 39 NO 9 FisheriesAmerican Fisheries Society • www.fisheries.org SEPT 2014 In this Issue: Portland 2015 – Call for Papers Does Trapping Delay Salmon Migration? A Case for Open-Access Databases Recreational Charter Boat Shark Fisheries Guidelines for Use of Fishes in Research Meet AFS Staff: Denise Spencer Commentary from New President Donna Parrish 03632415(2014)39(9) How to Tag a Shrimp (Once) that Molts 30 Times Faster growing strains of disease-resistant shrimp are providing a significant boost to the aquaculture industry. Developing and evaluating these strains is easier if different families can be tagged, then reared together under identical conditions. Tagging crustaceans is complicated by an exoskeleton which can be shed up to 30 times as the animal grows to a marketable size. NMT’s Visible Implant Elastomer (VIE) is injected as a liquid under clear or translucent tissue, and it cures to a pliable solid that remains externally visible. The tags are available in 10 colors, of which six fluoresce for enhanced detection. VIE can be injected into the abdominal muscles of shrimp as small as 0.2 g with little effect on growth or survival1. High tag retention through molts and maturation mean that the animals can be identified for life. By varying tag locations and colors, VIE provides the many unique codes required to identify test groups. Researchers around the world rely on VIE to evaluate the performance of various strains of shrimp2,3, but it is not limited to crustaceans. VIE is also widely used to tag fish, rays, cephalopods, amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals. Please contact us if we can help with your project. 1Godin et al. 1996 Aquaculture Top: VIE Tags in a posterior abdominal 139:243-248. section of a pandalid shrimp. Center, 2Brown et al. 2003 Aquaculture bottom: VIE is injected with a fine needle Research 34:49-54. into the sixth abdominal segment of 3Dinh et al. 2012 Aquaculture juvenile white shrimp. (Photo courtesy of S. Research 43:1471-1479. Arce). Right: An NMT Air Driven Elastomer Injection System can be used to tag 500 shrimp per hour. 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] Fisheries VOL 39 NO 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 Contents UNIT NEWS 391 Units, Step Right Up: Get Your Free Website Jordan Allison COLUMNS President’s Commentary 393 Revisiting the AFS Lexicon Donna Parrish Policy 394 Effects of Industrial Water Intake Structures Thomas E. Bigford Letter from the Executive Director 432 Fisheries Inside the Beltway Doug Austen ESSAYS AND FEATURES 427 AFS Annual Meeting 2015. Photo credit: Travel Portland. 395 An Assessment of the Scale, Practices, and Conservation Implications of Florida’s Charter Boat– Based Recreational Shark Fishery AFS ANNUAL MEETING 2015 David Samuel Shiffman and Neil Hammerschlag 427 145th Annual Meeting of the American 408 Trapping Effects and Fisheries Research: A Case Fisheries Society: First Call for Papers Study of Sockeye Salmon in the Wenatchee River, USA Joshua G. Murauskas, Jeffery K. Fryer, Bryan Nordlund, and INTERVIEW Joseph L. Miller 429 Q&A: Book Editors 415 Guidelines for Use of Fishes in Research— Future of Fisheries: Perspectives for Emerging Professionals. Revised and Expanded, 2014 William W. Taylor, Abigail J. Lynch, and Nancy J. Léonard Uses of Fishes in Research (UFR) Committee: Jill A. Jenkins, Henry L. Bart, Jr., James D. Bowker, Paul R. Bowser, J. Randy MEET THE STAFF MacMillan, John G. Nickum, Joseph W. Rachlin, James D. Rose, Peter W. Sorensen, Barbara E. Warkentine, and Greg 430 Denise Spencer W. Whitledge JOURNAL HIGHLIGHTS 417 Open-Access Databases as Unprecedented Resour ces and Drivers of Cultural Change in Fisheries 433 Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Science Volume 143, Number 4, July 2014 Ryan A. McManamay and Ryan M. Utz CALENDAR FRESHWATER, FISH, AND THE FUTURE 435 Fisheries Events 426 Global Conference on Inland Fisheries: BACK PAGE Theme 4— Policy and Governance 436 The Things We Do for Science Milton Love Cover: Photo credit: Christine Shepard / www.SharkTagging.com. Fisheries • Vol 39 No 9• September 2014 • www.fisheries.org 389 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. 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