Session: Sampling Techniques II (AFS 140th Annual Meeting)

1:20 PM

46-1

Evaluation of calcein as a marking agent for paddlefish
Thomas Kehler, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Stephen M. Davis, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; John W. Fletcher, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

1:40 PM

46-2

Estimating effective sample size for fish length distribution from fishery samples on Georges Bank: A comparative study
Yuying Zhang, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Steven Cadrin, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

2:00 PM

46-3

Marine, brackish, freshwater habitats and the corresponding otolith Sr:Ca ratios: a review of the literature
Jian Yang, PhD, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences; Tao Jiang, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences; Hongbo Liu, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences

2:20 PM

46-4

Can biologists look at scales to discriminate between sea run alewife and blueback herring from the Sheepscot River, Maine?
Ruth E. Haas-Castro, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service - Woods Hole Lab; Mark D. Renkawitz, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service - Woods Hole Lab; Laura E. Jenkins, The University of Montana; Christine A. Lipsky, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service - Maine Field Station

2:40 PM

46-5

The use of egg staging to define spatial and temporal trends of early life stage winter flounder habitat use in New York/New Jersey Harbor
Paul A. Moccio, HDR Engineering, Inc.; David S. Davis, HDR Engineering, Inc.; Joseph F. Cullen, HDR Engineering, Inc.; Catherine J. Mulvey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

3:00 PM

Break

3:20 PM

46-6

Inefficacy of light-traps in the upper Ohio River
Richard B. Taylor, Penn State University; Jay R. Stauffer Jr., Penn State University; Thomas J. Maier, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

3:40 PM

46-7

Determining fish origin by mining the otolith
Stacy K. Beharry, Old Dominion University; Cynthia M. Jones, Old Dominion University

46-8

Prioritizing data collection for assessment purposes (Withdrawn)

4:20 PM

46-9

Influence of survey design on juvenile fish community metrics: Implications from a study in Chesapeake Bay tributaries
Troy D. Tuckey, Virginia Institute of Marine Science; Mary C. Fabrizio, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

4:40 PM

46-10

Sampling low dissolved oxygen waters can change population estimates
Carey Knight, Ohio Department Natural Resources; Ann Marie Gorman, Ohio Depatment Natural Resources; Troy Farmer, Ohio State University; Stuart Ludsin, Ohio State University; Kevin Pangle, Ohio State University