Greetings Washington – British Columbia Chapter members. I am writing this from an Ottawa, Ontario hotel room, winding up my participation at the 138th Annual AFS Parent Society Meeting. I am looking for a theme to introduce myself and provide some updates and vision about the Chapter. I look over at the countertop and all [...]
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Over the summer, new chapter Vice President, Mark Pedersen, Chair Bill Mavros, and Tad Schwager put their heads together to develop a strategic plan to revitalize our chapter’s Marine Fisheries Committee (MFC). Their draft plan was tweaked by the WA/BC Executive Committee (ExComm) to come up with the following:
The mission of the Marine Fisheries Committee [...]
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AFS 2011 Program Chair Craig Busack, (WA Dept of Fish and Wildlife) and Chapter President Larry Dominguez attended the Parent Society Meeting August 18-21 along with several other Washington –British Columbia members. It was an opportunity for Craig and Larry to begin scoping the needs and processes for our 2011 meeting and see some great [...]
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New Chapter Leaders
This year’s Chapter balloting was a rousing success. We had four great candidates for the two open positions on the Chapter Executive Committee. Mark Pedersen will be the new Chapter Vice President and Geraldine Vander Haegen is the new Assistant Newsletter Editor. They assumed their new offices as of August 19, 2008. Thanks [...]
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Co-convened by WA-BC Chapter of AFS and Washington Dept of Fish and Wildlife
June 6 – 7, 2008 Olympia Washington
We invite you to Olympia, WA June 6 – 7, 2008 for the Coastwide Salmonid Genetic Meeting hosted by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Washington – British Columbia Chapter (WA and BC) of [...]
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We have a great selection of raffle items for you to win at the Awards and Raffle Social on Wednesday Night March 5th. Items include:
Flyfishing gear including flies and a fly rod
Art including a Joe wilson print, 5 prints form the Sustainable Fisheries Foundation, coastal cutthroat print from recent Skamania AGM
Books including ‘Ecology of Juvenile [...]
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Greetings:
Please be aware that the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society deadline for the 2008 graduate-level student scholarship applications is March 1, 2008. This scholarship program provides up to $3,000 annually in scholarships to master’s or doctoral students in the general area of fisheries science with one to three awards to individual [...]
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