Here’s the schedule for the Ancient Fishes Symposium at the 2016 American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting in Kansas City! We will provide updates accordingly. For those of you not attending, you can follow the symposium on Twitter with the hashtag #AncientSportFish! We’ll follow up with recap posts in the future; if you have any questions, email solomonrdavid@gmail.com.
Monday, August 22, 2016
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09:40 AM Introductory Remarks Solomon David, Shedd Aquarium/U.S. Geological Survey – -
10:00 AM Morphological Variation Among Bowfin (Amia) Populations from the Carolinas and Laurentian Great Lakes: Taxonomic and Conservation Implications Jay Palumbo1, Kean Clifford1 and Donald Stewart2, (1)SUNY Coll. Envir. Sci. & For., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA, (2)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry – -
10:20 AM Success of Morphometric Gender Identification of Alligator Gar Dusty McDonald1, Daniel Daugherty2 and J. Warren Schlechte2, (1)Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Station, (2)Heart of the Hills Fisheries Science Center – -
10:40 AM Alligator Gar in the Headlines: Ancient Sport Fish & Asian Carp? Jeffrey Stein1, Solomon David2 and Sarah Huck1, (1)University of Illinois, (2) Shedd Aquarium/U.S. Geological Survey – -
11:00 AM Bowfin Acoustic Telemetry: Insight into the Ecology of a Living Fossil Jonathan Midwood, Lee Gutowsky, Bogdan Hlevca, Mathew Wells, Susan Doka and Steven Cooke. affiliations list forthcoming. – -
11:20 AM Connecting the Spots: Life History and Ecology of the Spotted Gar Lepisosteus Oculatus from an Oklahoma Reservoir Bryan Frenette, Kansas State University and Richard Snow, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation – -
11:40 AM Monday Lunch Break – -
01:00 PM Development of a Stage-Specific Floodplain Inundation Model to Predict Suitable Spawning Habitat Availability for Assessing Alligator Gar Recruitment Success Clint Robertson1, Karim Aziz1, Nolan Raphelt2, Dave Buckmeier1 and Nate Smith1, (1)Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, (2)Texas Water Development Board – -
01:20 PM Alligator Gar in Texas’ Coastal Zone: Long-Term Trends and Environmental Influences Daniel Daugherty, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, J. Warren Schlechte, Heart of the Hills Fisheries Science Center and Dusty McDonald, Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Station – -
01:40 PM Movement Patterns and Home Range Fidelity of Bowfin in Oneida Lake, New York James R. Jackson, Cornell Biological Field Station, Cornell University, Alexander W. Latzka, McGill University, Tomomi Landsman, Léman Manhattan Preparatory School and Amy R. McCune, Cornell University – -
02:00 PM Growth and Ecology of Bowfin (Amia calva) in Green Bay, Lake Michigan Collin Moratz1, Patrick Forsythe1, Christopher Houghton1, Gary Lamberti2, Katherine O’Reilly2, Donald Uzarski3, James Student3 and Martin Berg4, (1)University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, (2)University of Notre Dame, (3)Central Michigan University, (4)Loyola University Chicago – -
02:20 PM Utility and Precision of Four Hard Structures Used to Estimate Age of Spotted, Shortnose, and Longnose Gars Sarah Huck1, Solomon David2 and Jeffrey Stein1, (1)University of Illinois, (2) Shedd Aquarium/U.S. Geological Survey – -
02:40 PM Juvenile Alligator Gar Movement Patterns in a Disconnected Floodplain Habitat in Southeast Missouri Levi Solomon1, Quinton Phelps2, Dave Herzog3, Christopher Kennedy3 and Michael Taylor4, (1)University of Illinois, Prairie Research Institute, Illinois Natural History Survey, Illinois River Biological Station, (2)Missouri Department of Conservation and Southeast Missouri State University, (3)Missouri Department of Conservation, (4)Southeast Missouri State University – -
03:00 PM Monday Afternoon Break – -
03:20 PM Accuracy and precision of Longnose and Spotted Gar age estimates from otoliths, pectoral fin rays, and branchiostegal rays David Buckmeier1, Richard Snow2, Nathan Smith1, and Clayton Porter2 , (1)Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, (2) Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation – -
03:40 PM Modeling the Responses of Alligator Gar Populations to Harvest: Implications for Meeting the Needs of a Diverse Angling Constituency Nathan Smith1, Daniel Daugherty2, J. Warren Schlechte2 and David Buckmeier1, (1)Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, (2)Heart of the Hills Fisheries Science Center – -
04:00 PM Research and Revelations in Avant-Gar(de) Eco-Writing Mark Spitzer, University of Central Arkansas – -
04:20 PM Discussion Solomon David, Shedd Aquarium/U.S. Geological Survey –
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