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Annual FITS Membership Giveaway! Congrats to the WINNERS!

FITS annual membership renewal giveway is a way for FITS to give back to it’s members by covering the renewal fee of a FITS section membership for the next year. Congratulations to our lucky winners who were randomly selected and notified last month. The following lucky members will receive an automatic Section renewal for 2022:... Read More

Data and Technology Volunteer Opportunities

We are looking for Data and Technology Section members who would like to get more involved and learn about our Section and AFS! List of Opportunities: Center for Fisheries Technology and Collaboration (CFTC)- Contact Rebecca Krogman (Rebecca.Krogman@dnr.iowa.gov) Data and Technology Awards committee- Contact Jennifer Moran (jennifer.moran@myfwc.com) This committee will manage the three following award programs:... Read More

February 2022 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

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... Read More

January Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes January 19, 2022 Attendees: Kayla, Paul, Tiffany, Patrick Old Business Mail poet Update from Chelsea Looking at options for code to automatically update list “It’s been a while” e-mail has been drafted and will send out this week. Revisited discussion of paying to upgrade in... Read More

December Executive Business Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes  December 15, 2021 Attendees: Kayla, Paul, Tiffany, Patrick, Chelsea AFS Baltimore Review “COVID Effects” Symposium (Tiffany) Small group of presenters, but it was very well attended. Great talks and great discussions! Annual Business Meeting SWOT Analysis Follow Up (Tiffany) Strengths-keep going with these Weakness- specific... Read More

FITS highlights fish passage tech in latest Fisheries Magazine

Thanks to our wonderful member Sarah Grasty (former Communications Chair) and her co-authors, the latest issue of Fisheries Magazine includes a great look at tech being used monitoring and studying fish passage! Here’s a sneak peek: Over the past several decades, technological innovation has advanced so rapidly that it is hard for many of us... Read More

October Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes October 13, 2021 Attendees: Kayla, Paul, Tiffany, Patrick, Rebecca Welcome to President-elect Patrick Cooney (all) AFS Baltimore “COVID Effects” Symposium (Tiffany) We are still waiting for information on the symposium Action Item: Tiffany will reach out again to the Master Scheduler (joseph.love@maryland.gov) Rebecca suggested Tiffany... Read More

August Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes  August 13, 2021 Attendees: Kayla, Paul, Rebecca, Chelsea President-elect election (Tiffany) We have permission from AFS to hold FITS officer transfer at the parent meeting in November. They had initially requested 12 August 2021 in line with the Governing Board meeting. Transitioning in November gives... Read More