Northeastern Division Best Student Presentation and Poster Awards– Atlantic City 2018
Click here for more information about the 2018 Atlantic City meeting and to submit an abstract. Read More
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Click here for more information about the 2018 Atlantic City meeting and to submit an abstract. Read More
The second issue of the 2016 fish rapper is now available! Click here to download the Northeast Division’s latest newsletter. Read More
At its annual Business Meeting held on April 4 at the 72 nd Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference in Annapolis, Maryland, the Northeastern Division of the American Fisheries Society (NED) presented Stephen Gephard with the NED President’s Award. Steve is a Supervising Fisheries Biologist with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Inland Fisheries Division (DEEP IFD),... Read More
Researchers at Acadia University conducted a survey of the Minas Basin Atlantic sturgeon population during the summer of 2012. They estimated roughly 25,000 sturgeon were present between the sizes of 100-200 cm. Using genetic analyses they determined the Minas Basin population was of mixed origin, with roughly 60% coming from a nearby river and over 30% from populations... Read More
Dr. David Argent, Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from California University of Pennsylvania, holding a 38-pound paddlefish netted on the Allegheny River For many decades, Paddlefish were extirpated from flowing waters of the upper Ohio River basin in western Pennsylvania, which comprised the eastern-most extent of their native range. The Pennsylvania Fish and... Read More
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife have been involved in an ongoing lake trout(togue) management study on Munsungan Lake in northern Maine. The fishery has been producing smaller sized togue that appear to be stockpiling. Maine fisheries biologists recently used radio telemetry to identify the trout spawning shoal in the lake which the department had... Read More