The Virginia and North Carolina Chapters

 of The American Fisheries Society
2007 Meeting Program


            

                                        
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Techniques for aging and population characteristics for grass carp from Lake Gaston.  Cory Kovacs, Catherine Lim, Mike Isel and Victor DiCenzo, VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

Intensive grass carp stocking effects on reservoir invasive plants and native fish populations.  Alan Garner and Thomas Kwak, NCSU, Hugh Barwick and Kenneth Manuel, Duke Energy

Survey of Lake Gaston walleye anglers identified through tag returns.  Kirk Rundle, NC Wildlife Resources Commission

Zooplankton assemblages as key indicators of larval fish predation in Claytor Lake Virginia.  Thomas Shahady, Lynchburg College, and John Copeland, VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

Evaluating property owner willingness to implement shoreline habitat improvement techniques.  Robert Barwick, NC Wildlife Resources Commission, and W. Gregory Cope, NCSU

 

Integrating gear bias and selectivity into development of a standardized fish sampling protocol for Puerto Rico streams.  Christin Brown, Thomas Kwak, Patrick Cooney, and Kenneth Pollock, NCSU

Temporal and spatial patterns of anadromous fish passage at Bosher’s Dam vertical slot fishway on the James River, Richmond, Virginia.  Matt Fisher, VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

Comparison of prepositioned areal electrofishing grids and two-way resistance board weirs for assessing migrating stream fish populations.  Scott Favrot and Thomas Kwak, NCSU

Comparison of split-beam and DIDSON hydroacoustic gears for conducting sturgeon surveys.  Kevin Magowan and Joseph Hightower, NCSU, Lori Brown and Dewayne Fox, Delaware State University

 

Smallmouth bass management in the New River, Virginia: a case study of population trends with lessons learned.  John Copeland and George Palmer, VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and Donald Orth, VA Tech

Shenandoah River fish kills: effects of water temperature and discharge during spawning periods.  Nick Brown, Daniel Downey and Thomas Benzing, James Madison University

One out of three ain’t bad – or – the nonindigenous fishes of the Yadkin – Pee Dee river basin.  Bryn Tracy, NC Division of Water Quality

Hickory shad spawning habitat in the Roanoke River, North Carolina.  Julianne Harris and Joseph Hightower, NCSU

Genetic marker-assisted restoration of the presumptive native walleye stock in the New River, Virginia.  George Palmer and Joe Williams, VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Mark Scott, WV Department of Natural Resources, Kathy Finne, Nathan Johnson, Daniel Dutton, Brian Murphy and Eric Hallerman, VA Tech

Trophic relations of introduced flathead catfish in a North Carolina Piedmont river.  Jessica Brewster and Thomas Kwak, NCSU

The effects of stream resources on fish and macroinvertebrate nutrient composition and nutrient excretion.  Ryan McManamay and Jackson Webster, Virginia Tech

Effects of small flood control dams on upstream and downstream water chemistry and fish populations.  Springli Payeur and Daniel Downey, James Madison University

Evaluation of largemouth bass populations in three water supply reservoirs near Greensboro, North Carolina.  Corey Oakley, NC Wildlife Resources Commission

Food and floods: understanding factors that influence stream trout movement.  Morgan Hyatt and Charles Gowan, Randolph-Macon College, D. Brad Fink, Jeremy Shiflet, and Mark Hudy, US Forest Service

Otolith microchemistry determination for heavy metals pollution assessment.  Philip Janney and Daniel Downey, James Madison University

Black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) performance in a Virginia small impoundment following the implementation of a 229-mm minimum size limit.  Steve Owens, VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

“I’m from VA-DEQ, and I am here to help”: implementing Virginia’s local and regional Water Supply Planning Program.  Adrienne Averett, VA Department of Environmental Quality

After the storm: SDAFS disaster relief actions and recommendations.  Robert Curry, NC Wildlife Resources Commission and Danielle Pender

Preliminary impacts of the Three Gorges Dam on fisheries of the Yangtze River, China: the problems are only beginning.  Brian Murphy, VA Tech, and Xie Songguang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Patterns of larval Atlantic croaker ingress into Chesapeake Bay. Jason J. Schaffler and Cynthia M. Jones, Old Dominion University, Christian S. Reiss and Jon A. Hare, NOAA, NMFS

Smith River tailwater: opportunities for enhancement of habitat ofr native and introduced fishes.  M. Anderson, G. Buhyoff, P. Diplas, C. Dolloff, A. Hunter, C. Krause, T. Newcomb, D. Novinger, and D. Orth, VA Tech

Water chemistry of Smith Creek: effects on land use and riparian zone protection to date.  Ania Austin and Daniel Downey, James Madison University