VOL 34 NO 9 SEPTEMBER 2009 Fish News legislative Update Journal Highlights Fisheries Calendar FisheriesAmerican Fisheries Society • www.fi sheries.org Job Center Western Lake Trout Woes Why Do People Drop Out of Recreational Fishing? A Study of Lapsed Fishers from Queensland, Australia AFS 140th Annual Meeting Pittsburgh 2010 Page 460 1st Call for Papers Fisheries • v o l 34 n o 9 • s e p t e m b e r 2009 • w w w .f i s h e r i e s .o r g 417 Small Tag—Big Returns Many species of aquatic organisms all around the world have been successfully tagged with Northwest Marine Technology’s Coded Wire Tags. Coded Wire Tags are pieces of stainless steel wire 1.1 mm long x 0.25 mm diameter with a numeric code printed on them (enlarged, left). Because they are so tiny, Coded Wire Tags can be implanted into very small animals with little effect on the host. Coded Wire Tags are unique in their nearly universal high retention rates, even through molts and metamorphosis. Retention for the life of the animal is the norm, and tags have been recovered 24 years after release. Hundreds of publications describing their use are available on our website. In the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada, researchers and managers have been tagging wild and hatchery coho and Chinook salmon with Coded Wire Tags since 1968. This program is remarkable in the cooperation between government entities, its longevity, and the amount of data collected and shared. The fish are tagged as juveniles (photo, center) before release from a hatchery or before outmigration from a river. The tags are recovered from returning adults in commercial and sport fisheries (photo, bottom), spawning grounds, and hatcheries at thousands of sites across six American states and one Canadian province, making this the biggest animal tagging program in history. Researchers and fish managers have learned much about salmonid survival, fishery contributions, hatchery practices, and a myriad of other subjects from this program. Please contact us if we can help with your tagging needs. This 55 pound, 5 year old Chinook salmon was Coded Wire Tagged as a smolt before release.. Northwest Marine Technology, Inc. Northwest Marine Technology, Inc. www.nmt.us Shaw Island, Washington, USA Corporate Office Biological Services 360.468.3375418 [email protected] 360.596.9400Fisheries [email protected] • v o l 34 n o 9 • s e p t e m b e r 2009 • w w w .f i s h e r i e s .o r g VOL 34 NO 9 SEPTEMBER 2009 443 aMERICanFisheries 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 • main@fi sheries.org The American Fisheries Society (AFS), founded in 1870, is the oldest and largest professional society representing fi sheries scientists. The AFS promotes scientifi c research and enlightened management of aquatic resources for optimum use and enjoyment by the public. It also encourages comprehensive education of fi sheries scientists and continuing on-the-job training. 424 Dues and fees for 2009 are: AFS OFFICERS FISHERIES STAFF EDITORS PRESIDENT SENIOR EDITOR SCIENCE EDITORS Donald C. Jackson Ghassan “Gus” N. Rassam Madeleine Hall-Arber Contents Ken Ashley PRESIDENT ELECT DIRECTOR OF Doug Beard Wayne A. Hubert PUBLICATIONS Ken Currens COLUMN: COLUMN: Aaron Lerner William E. Kelso FIRST Deirdre M. Kimball 420 PRESIDENT’S HOOK 453 DiRectoR’s linE VICE PRESIDENT ManaGInG EDITOR Beth Beard Robert T. Lackey William L. Fisher Dennis Lassuy Merging Our Deeper Currents A Community of Professionals… Allen Rutherford SECOND PRODUCTION EDITOR A story about an early courtroom experience This year’s meeting will honor 25 and 50 year Cherie Worth VICE PRESIDENT BOOK REVIEW reveals the value of AFS membership as well as AFS members, who discuss what the Society John Boreman EDITORS Francis Juanes the values of AFS members. has meant to them over the decades. PAST PRESIDENT Ben Letcher William G. Franzin Keith Nislow Donald C. Jackson Gus Rassam EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ABSTRACT TRANSLATION Ghassan“Gus” N.Rassam Pablo del Monte Luna NEWS: LETTERS: $76 in North America ($88 elsewhere) for regular members, 421 FISHERIES 454 TO THE EDITOR $19 in North America ($22 elsewhere) for student members, Does venting promote survival of and $38 ($44) retired members. Fees include $19 for Fisheries subscription. JOURNAL HIGHLIGHTS: released fi sh? 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Jim Higgs CREDIT: Audrey Squires Fisheries • v o l 34 n o 9 • s e p t e m b e r 2009 • w w w .f i s h e r i e s .o r g 419 COLUMN: Donald C. Jackson AFS President Jackson PRESIDENT’S HOOK may be contacted at: [email protected]. Merging Our Deeper Currents About 20 years ago, when I was that as a professional, you “profess” people and I really didn’t expect to get an untenured assistant professor at to be. And then this evening, as you much response. Mississippi State University, one of lay in bed looking at the dark ceiling But the responses came—incredible my research associates said, “Don, before you sleep, ask yourself the real responses—in time for me to use one day you will be president of the questions—I don’t need to tell you them during my deposition and tes- American Fisheries Society.” I smiled what they are. Now, the story…. timony. I was floored by this profes- and brushed off the comment. I was Back when my research associate sional support from AFS colleagues. too busy to think about stuff like that, was engaged in her prophecies, I was These important people, esteemed as and besides, nobody ever plans to president of the Mississippi Chapter scientists and as “high ranking” mem- become AFS president. It’s just not and doing double duty as the chair of bers of AFS, had taken time to help done. But my associate was obviously the Southern Division’s Warmwater me, an unknown assistant professor at a prophet because here I am, begin- Stream Committee and as the editor a small land-grant university down in ning my term as your new president. of that committee’s Proceedings of Mississippi! I think it appropriate that I begin the First International Smallmouth Following my court testimony, my year as AFS president by sharing a Bass Symposium. I was also heavily the judge ordered a halt to chan- story with you. I am, after all, a native engaged with research and teach- nel dredging in the river and also of the Deep South, a region where ing responsibilities with about half a ordered a comprehensive evaluation storytelling is very much a part of my dozen graduate students. We were of floodplain rivers throughout the cultural heritage. That’s why we have doing everything we could to raise delta region of western Mississippi. front porches down here. And, being awareness regarding the incredible In the aftermath, there was a bio- a former seminarian and Protestant fisheries resources associated with political firestorm and attempts to minister prior to my Ph.D.