Category: Member and Project Spotlights

Introduction by Ben Wallace, Iowa DNR and FMS North Central Division Representative As fisheries managers we often spend much of our career trying to improve habitat and fix large scale issues that have impacted...

By Nick Feltz, FMS Southern Division Representative, Fisheries Management Biologist with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Temporary dewatering of a reservoir is a common practice in the Southeastern US that is initiated to achieve...

By Jill Wick, FMS Western Division Representative and Native Fish Program Manager with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Non-native fishes can be the primary threat to many native fish species, yet...

By Ben Wallace, FMS North Central Division Representative and Fisheries Management Biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Iowa’s glacially formed lakes are among the most nutrient rich aquatic ecosystems in the world. ...

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...

“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...