AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes February 18, 2022

Present: Chelsea Myles-McBurney, Paul Venturelli, Tiffany Hopper

Old Business

Mail poet:

• Impact of the list cleanup actions
  • Chelsea sent email for “are you still interested in”
  • Need to investigate why messages are going into spam
  • Chelsea ran spam test Results: 6.7/10
  • Revisit subject lines in emails to see if that helps spam issue
  • Created Segment list to filter inactive members
  • No luck on R code yet
• Revisiting whether we need to upgrade the account yet
  • Look into premium and what it means to “Send emails via web host or third-party service”
  • $149 a year for premium

Potential section rebranding?

• Do we want to pursue this?
  • Paul, Chelsea, and Tiffany are interested in changing
  • Think it would benefit the Section
• What are required steps?
  • We need to change the bylaws (What are the steps for this)
  • ACTION ITEM (Tiffany): Reach out to Doug to see what steps are needed for this change
• Timeline?
  • Touch on next meeting

Partnership travel award (Tiffany)

• New application deadline
• February 28^th is the deadline
• Page on the website
• ACTION ITEM: Add blurb to remind people about the application deadline (Link below)
  https://units.fisheries.org/fits/awards-and-recognition/partnership-travel-award/

Membership lottery (Tiffany)

• Membership lottery was completed, and tiffany picked winners
• Winners were notified in February
• Action Item: Kayla to make post on Website

AFS Spokane

• Continuing Ed course
  • Course was successfully submitted
  • Agenda from previous course has been approved by Keith
  • All CV’s need to be submitted to AFS
  • Updates on schedule should be available has conference gets closer
• Symposia
  • MacGyver symposium has been submitted
  • Deadline extension was 2/18/2022
  • Should be notified on proposals at the end of February
• Tech Talks?
  • Putting this onto the radar – need to talk to Rebecca
  • What would this look like in the future for CFTC

Center for Fisheries Technology and Collaboration update

*No updates to report on currently

Citizen Science Task Force (Paul)

• Putting these talks into an annual symposium
• Not needing to recruit volunteers any longer.

New Business
Paul’s Updates:

• Fish r core development team: meeting every month
• Starting to prioritize action items and assign people to items
• Created a mission statement
• Working on moving fish R website to fits website and “make it our own”
• Working on what to keep and what to take out