144th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society

August 17 - 21, 2014

The Queens University Biological Station (QUBS) was founded on the shores of Lake Opinicon, Ontario back in 1946.  Since then, research groups from around the world have conducted a huge variety of studies on a wide range of species, communities, and habitats.   Many of these studies have made major contributions across a number of areas of fisheries science…and many of those research endeavors continue today, from alternative reproductive strategies in bluegill, to the impacts of angling on the reproductive and physiological ecology of black bass.  This symposium will introduce QUBS to the audience through a brief historical overview to be presented by one or more of the long-term QUBS researchers.  That overview will be followed by a series of invited presentations that will highlight the current contributions now emanating from the aforementioned long-term projects run at QUBS…presenting not only the most current scientific results, but also illustrating how that research has shaped fisheries resource management and conservation decisions over the years.  The symposium will close with an interactive discussion among the speakers and the audience that highlights the role of field stations in generating long-term field data, as well as the roadblocks such field stations may face in the near future.