President’s Message
My term as president of this section is nearing its end and its time to elect new officers. We have a fine slate of candidates for President Elect and Secretary Treasurer and I'm sure the section will be in good hands with incoming president Kim Scribner. Please make sure to read the candidates bios in the latest newsletter. Pending approval of electronic balloting in our revised bylass, electronic ballots should be going out soon. Please return your ballot promptly!
The AFS annual meeting in Ottawa is shaping up to be a fine meeting. President Elect and Program chair Kim Scribner has lined up two excellent section-sponsored symposia. The first is titled "Contributions of genetic principles and technology to sustainable fisheries: concepts, challenges, and case studies" and is being organized by Chris Wilson and Kim Scribner. The second is “Cultured Aquatic Animals: Use and Implications for Stock Enhancement, Fisheries Management, and Species Diversity”organized by Jesse Trushenski, Kim Scribner, and Mike Denson and will be under joint sponsorship of the Genetics Section and the Fish Culture Section. We've been talking about working closer with the Fish Culture Section for a long time and I'm really happy to see this symposium developed.
I'll be representing the section at the AFS Governor's Board meeting on March 8 in Annapolis, MD. This is a great opportunity to bring members' concerns to AFS officers, members of the executive committee, and representatives of other section. If anybody has any items they wish to bring up please contact me.
Sincerely,
Ed Heist, AFS Genetics Section President
Stevan Phelps Memorial Award
The Genetics Section created the Stevan Phelps Memorial Award in
2000 as a perpetual memorial to Steve who died prematurely from
cancer in 1999. The award, which honors Steve's strong commitment to
publication of applied genetic research in fisheries, is given
annually to the authors of the best genetics paper published in an
AFS journal the preceding year. The ranking and determination are
conducted by a panel of Genetics Section members.
The 2007 winner was:
Tymchuk, W. E. C. Biagi, R. Wither, and R. H. Devlin. 2006. Growth and Behavioral Consequences of Introgression of a Domesticated Aquaculture Genotype into a Native Strain of Coho Salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135:442–455, 2006
James E. Wright Graduate Award
The Genetics Section of the American Fisheries Society is pleased to announce the James E. Wright Graduate Award. This award is presented annually at the Genetics Section meeting at the AFS Annual Meeting and is intended to recognize excellence in graduate-level work in fisheries genetics and to assist graduate students with travel to the national meeting. In 2007 the section awarded Jocelyn Lin of the University of Washington with a $700 check to help attend the 2007 meeting in San Francisco.
The section anticipates awarding two checks for $500 each to attend the AFS annual meeting in 2008 Ottawa. For information, see the Awards Page.
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