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Renew your membership online today. Simply go to: http://web.fisheries.org/main/images/stories/afs/eseries.doc , and follow instructions. At the same time you may want to subscribe to some of our excellent journals or Fisheries InfoBase. If you subscribe to our online services, your receipt along with login and password will be emailed to you within minutes so you can have immediate access to the information!

Please take a moment to visit the newly refurbished AFS Bookstore online, http://www.afsbooks.org/ , and check our new titles such as:

1. Partnerships for a Common Purpose: Cooperative Fisheries Research and Management

2. Aquaculture in the 21st Century

3. Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages

4. Salmon 2100: The Future of Wild Pacific Salmon

5. The AFS Guide to Fisheries Employment, Second Edition

6. Aquatic Stewardship Education in Theory and Practice

We depend heavily on your help, so please do not forget to fill The Committee Volunteer application:

http://web.fisheries.org/main/images/stories/afs/comapp.doc

If you choose to renew online, please disregard the dues bill that you may have received in the mail. Don’t delay. Go online right away to renew and enjoy uninterrupted service.

Earliest Issues of The Progressive Fish-Culturist now online

The American Fisheries Society (AFS) has placed the full text of
1935-1983 issues of The Progressive Fish-Culturist (PFC) in the
Fisheries InfoBase, the most complete source of information on fisheries
in the world. The 1935-1983 collection consists of 2,300 articles and
8,000 pages. This latest addition complements the archive of 1984-1998
PFC articles already online.

The Progressive Fish-Culturist contains papers on various aspects of
aquaculture including broodstock selection and spawning, nutrition and
feeding, health and water quality, facilities and production technology,
fish transport, and management of ponds, pens, and raceways. Papers
cover marine and freshwater species-vertebrate and invertebrate-that are
of interest to North American aquaculturalists. In 1999 the journal was
renamed the North American Journal of Aquaculture.

AFS online journals: http://afs.allenpress.com

The AFS Equal Opportunities Section annually solicits contributions to assist students from underrepresented groups in their travels to the AFS Annual Meeting. Typically, Sections and Chapters have given $100 to $500. A contribution from your Section for the 2007 AFS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, would enable us to continue ensuring that minority and female students will be able to travel to annual conferences and develop professionally through associations with AFS. These awards are entirely dependent on annual contributions from AFS units and external organizations.

Over the past six years, we have facilitated distribution of $15,500 to support travel through a $500 award to 29 students from 22 institutions in 6 countries (see attachment). Several of these students have gone on to serve AFS as unit officers.

Each year, the section provides a forum so that these students can converse with seasoned professionals and AFS officers, who assist them in meeting people and encourage the students to feel at home within the AFS and fisheries profession. These luncheons have included joint events with other Sections. We anticipate hosting a similar event in San Francisco and welcome your input regarding the format.

Web links:

AFS Homepage - http://www.fisheries.org/afs/

AFS Divisions, Chapters, and Sections - http://www.fisheries.org/afs/units.html

The Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program is a summer mentoring program for high school students sponsored by the American Fisheries Society. http://www.fisheries.org/afs/hutton.html

2006 AFS National Award Winners - http://www.fisheries.org/afs/awards/awardwinners.pdf