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2022 FITS Annual Business Meeting Minutes
Below you can find the minutes from 2022 FITS Business Meeting in Spokane 2022 FITS Annual Business Read More
FITS meeting TODAY @ 5:30pm Room 103
The Fisheries Information and Technology Section Annual Business Meeting is set for Tuesday Aug 23rd @ 5:30pm in the Conference Center Room 103. Please review the minutes from last year’s business meeting, this year’s business meeting agenda, and 2022 Secretary/ Treasurer Report. We will only cover highlights from these documents. Light refreshments will be provided. We look forward... Read More
FITS Business Meeting in Spokane- Tuesday 5:30 pm -Room 103
The Fisheries Information and Technology Section Annual Business Meeting is set for Tuesday Aug 23rd @ 5:30pm in the Conference Center Room 103. Please review the minutes from last year’s business meeting, this year’s business meeting agenda, and 2022 Secretary/ Treasurer Report. We will only cover highlights from these documents. Light refreshments will be provided. We look... Read More
AFS Spokane Abstract Deadline Extended! Submit your abstract today for FITS-Sponsored Symposia
The deadline for abstracts to AFS Spokane has been extended to April 20! Now’s your chance to submit your abstract to the innovative session “A Fisheries Biologist’s Guide to Using Human Dimensions Data!” This event is sponsored by the AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section. This interactive event will use a combination of traditional symposium... Read More
FITS Sponsored Symposia in Spokane August 21-25, 2022.
The Fisheries Information and Technology Section of the American Fisheries Society encourages you to submit abstracts to present in the following two symposia at the American Fisheries Society Conference in Spokane, Washington, August 21-25, 2022. “MacGyvering”: Innovative Problem Solving in Fisheries Science We want to hear from all you tinkerers, inventers, and repurposers…the “MacGyvers” of... Read More
FITS Business Meeting Nov. 9th 12:15-1:45pm Hilton’s Tilghman Room and Virtual Option!
The Fisheries Information and Technology Section Annual Business Meeting is set for November 9th from 12:15 to 1:45pm (EDT) in the Hilton’s Tilghman Room. Please review the minutes from last year & the Secretary/ Treasurer Report as we will only cover highlights from these documents. Both can be found on our website at the following links 2020 FITS... Read More
AFS Baltimore registration giveaway for qualifying FITS members!
What does being a member of the Fisheries Information and Technology Section (FITS) get you? How about assistance attending the Annual Meeting?! This year, FITS is excited to cover Early Bird or Virtual registration for AFS Baltimore (6-10 November 2021) for 10 lucky FITS members who qualify as Students or Early Career Professional (https://fisheries.org/membership/types-of-membership/#student), and... Read More
Consider contributing to the 2021 COVID Symposium
The Fisheries Information and Technology Section is hosting a special symposium at AFS Baltimore in November 2021. Please consider submitting a paper to the symposium; abstracts are due March 26! Keep in mind the 2021 AFS Meeting is being planned as a hybrid event (in-person and virtual attendance options), but may shift to a virtual... Read More
Missed the Symposium? Here’s what you missed in “Merging Data Science and Fisheries and Aquatic Science to Solve Big Problems”
The FITS-sponsored symposium organized by Daniel Weaver and Paul Venturelli drew ten quality presentations at the AFS Virtual Annual Meeting. Many thanks to our organizers for making this happen in such a chaotic meeting year, and many thanks to our speakers for contributing to this great collection of papers!! You can read the abstracts here... Read More