AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes October 17, 2022 Attendees: Tiffany, Kayla, Paul, Patrick, and Chelsea Old Business AFS Spokane Bylaws changes Conflict of Interest statement in by-laws (Rebecca had volunteered to draft proposed language) Bylaws change to remove requirement for 2 candidates for each election Add language that says two... Read More
Below you can find the minutes from 2022 FITS Business Meeting in Spokane 2022 FITS Annual Business Read More
Shared by our CFT Partner Eureka: The University of Texas/Dallas is developing a method to assess environmental sites that might be dangerous or challenging for humans to enter, such as after a hurricane, oil spill, chemical leak, or other disasters. They have designed an autonomous, integrated robotic system using an unmanned boat, unmanned aircraft, and... Read More
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
The Water Quality Section (https://waterquality.fisheries.org/) recently voted to add an elected position devoted to technology and communication. Because technological aptitude is desirable, we encourage our colleagues in FITS to consider running. Below is the description of the position. Contact Paul Kusnierz, pkusnierz@alumni.nmu.edu. ‘Communications Officer: The Communications officer is responsible for facilitating regular communication with the... Read More
Don’t forget to stop by and visit with the Center for Fisheries Technology partners who attend the AFS Spokane Meeting next week! Big Fin Scientific: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/big-fin-scientific/ BioBase – Navico: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/biobase/ Biomark: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/biomark/ Central Life Sciences: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/central-life-sciences/ Duluth Nets: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/duluth-nets/ Echoview Software: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/echoview/ ETS Electrofishing Systems: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/ets-electrofishing/ Hallprint: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/hallprint/ Hydrolox: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/hydrolox/ Oregon RFID: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/oregon-rfid/ Smith-Root: https://units.fisheries.org/fits/solutions/vendors/smith-root/... Read More
If you’re not familiar with our Center for Fisheries Technology partner BioBase, they provide satellite and sonar imagery tech and analysis for habitat mapping. BioBase is composed of two different products, EcoSound and EcoSat. Ecosat processes satellite imagery to create shallow vegetation and benthic habitat maps. While, EcoSound uses off-the-shelf sonar technology and automatic cloud... Read More
Echoview Software has released its next update for beta testing: Echoview 13. Some of the new features and functions including: better performance and user experience additional automation capabilities enhanced operators and dataflow tools improved algorithms and exports support for multiple new hardware file formats implementation of the latest technologies available and more! Learn more here:... Read More
Jonah Ventures is assisting the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to assemble and annotate >700 fish mitogenomes. Mitogenomes (and high copy nuclear sequences) are sequenced with genome skimming (shallow sequencing to capture repeated genetic elements) from voucher collections. Jonah is developing computational pipelines to better automate processes and publicly archiving results. Here is a circos... Read More
AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes August 15, 2022 Attendees: Kayla, Tiffany, Paul, Patrick Old Business AFS Spokane Symposium updates Full day of speakers for the “MacGyvering” symposium Scheduled for Monday Aug 21st in 302A –starting at 8am! Patrick will give intro and moderate first block of talks Tiffany will moderate... Read More
