By Nick Feltz, FMS Southern Division Representative and Fisheries Management Biologist with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Arkansas highland streams make up the southern border of the native distribution of Smallmouth...
Decades of collaborative management see positive trends toward restoration of self-sustaining Lake Trout population in Lake Champlain By Courtney Buckley, FMS Northeastern Division Representative; Fisheries Biologist with Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Following the...
Nominations are due June 30, 2023 Award Descriptions: The Conservation Achievement Award recognizes any significant action, program, or initiative by a nonmember individual, non-governmental organization, or state (provincial), Tribal, local, or federal agency that...
Nominations are due June 30, 2023 Hall of Excellence (HOE) Award Description: The HOE was established in 1992 and its stated objectives are to: 1) to recognize fisheries management professionals who have made outstanding...
Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout (RGCT) is the southernmost subspecies of Cutthroat Trout and is native to portions of New Mexico and Colorado. Only a fraction of RGCT historic range is currently occupied primarily due...
Congratulations to all of the 2022 award recipients!! The award recipients were recognized at the annual FMS business meeting held at the American Fisheries Society meeting in Spokane in August 2022. Hall of Excellence...
Elections were held in 2022 and we would like to introduce you to the new Fisheries Management Section officers! Jeff Kopaska, Iowa Department of Natural Resources – President-elect Jill Wick, New Mexico Department of...
In February 2014, the Fisheries Management Section (FMS) charged a committee to address the specific needs and issues facing young professionals in the fisheries field. The newly formed Young Professional Committee (YPC) was tasked...
“There could be potential problems to paddlefish because they are consuming the same things” Paddlefish are some of the oldest fish around. Fossil records date the species back 300 million to 400 million years....
Brian Graeb on Floods, Droughts, Predators and Prey; Aging Reservoirs; Asian Carps – Bighead and Silver; and The Perfect Storm in the Missouri River Basin. Brian Graeb in Scotland (PDF)
“Fish like things that provide protection from the current. The shoals are a good place for them to sit and wait for food to come by.” Officials say a new project will make fishing...
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