FITS Excom Conference Call 1/14/2016 10:00am- CST.
Attendees:
Julie DeFilippi
Jeff Kopaska
Nick Sievert
Rebecca Krogman
Discussion:
- Article
- Julie and Andy will be adding onto the article and sending back to Jodi to merge changes together.
- Solicit feedback from membership (announcement email or newsletter)
- Emily Grandstaff-Using databases on amazon cloud services? Any information
- Reach out to listserv
- Send out email to membership, but how do we get feedback:
- Blog Post-Add comments
- Gary Ash software review- solicit feedback from membership
- Get in touch with Gary Ash if you would like to participate
- Make announcement about the new website and request feedback
- But hold off until after the society makes their announcement (if they haven’t made an announcement by the time this is ready to go pull it out.
- Jeff Ojala will put together the announcement and coordinate this with support from Nick
- Emily Grandstaff-Using databases on amazon cloud services? Any information
- Website
- Rebecca- Launched yesterday
- A few small bugs but so far going well.
- Still working on getting issues with member portal figured out.
- If you look at the website and have comments pass them on to Rebecca she will compile them and pass them along to get issues worked out.
- There is also a feedback form on the website that can be filled out.
- Unit sites have not been migrated yet, but this could be coming soon.
- Special committee Ron & Glenn
- Rebecca has a representative who will be placed on it.
- Julie will do the first round and Nicole will take over in the future.
- Symposiums
- WE had decided not to do one
- Potential for piggy-backing on some that Tom Lang is doing
- Angler participation Symposia- Want to put together a book from the symposia
- Focus on recruiting, marketing, retaining anglers, license purchase behavior, etc.-Rebecca
- Data could definitely be a part of it, but the focus is not on the technology. Doesn’t seem like the right fit –Julie and Rebecca
- App that can be used to in regard to setting limits, could be included in the symposia
- Jeff- Angler databases- Who is buying licenses, what are they responding to, where are they coming from
- As budgets tighten traditional fish surveys may be more difficult and less ubiquitous, monitoring may become more dependent on angler reports-Jeff
- Regulations are beginning to be based on results of creel surveys rather than traditional surveys.-Jeff
- Information and technology will have a very important role in this going forward. FITS could be a good fit related to this.
- Rebecca and Tom will discuss if there is a way FITS can contribute to this endeavor.
- Fisheries Data exchange, what’s the status?-Jeff
- Rebecca- There has been no change since our last discussion about it a few months ago
- Julie- Will be checking on the status and see is going to happen going forward.
- Angler participation Symposia- Want to put together a book from the symposia
- Rebecca- Launched yesterday
