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Connor Chance-Ossowski

Kansas Wildlife, Parks & Tourism
Emporia, KS

8:00am CST

Workshop. Introductory Fisheries Analyses with R 101A

6:00pm CST

Featured Event! Welcome to Wisconsin Social Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am CST

Plenary Session, Awards Presentation & Ignite Session Ballroom A/B

1:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Using Aquatic Landscape Ecology to Inform Lake Habitat Management at Multiple Scales 102D&E WALLEYE: Biological and Social Responses to Walleye Recruitment Failure on Minocqua Chain, Wisconsin 103A

1:40pm CST

ASIAN CARP: Habitat Use and Movement of Juvenile Asian Carp in the Illinois River 103D

2:00pm CST

WALLEYE: Ecosystem Changes and Effects on Walleye Sustainable Harvest in Lake Mille Lacs, Minnesota 103A

2:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Investigating Fish Kills to Identify Emerging Threats and Long-term Stress 102D&E

2:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: The Influence of Lake Habitat and Landscape Context on Bluegill Growth and Population Size Structure in Midwest Glacial Lakes 102D&E

3:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-02: Escapement and Seasonal Movement of Muskellunge and Walleye in Two Central Iowa Reservoirs 102A

3:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Large Woody Debris and Fish Habitat Structure Additions: Picking the Right Lakes, Setting Expectations, and How to Best Implement 102D&E

4:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Advancing Aquatic Vegetation Management for Fish 102D&E

4:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Nuisance “Weeds” or Critical Fish Habitat: Balancing Trade Offs with Minnesota’s Aquatic Plant Management Program 102D&E

4:40pm CST

ASIAN CARP: Electrotrawling as a Method to Mass Remove Invasive Carp 103D SYMPOSIA-05: Wisconsin’s Healthy Lakes Initiative: Working with Lakefront Property Owners to Apply Best Management Practices 102D&E

8:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: An Overview of North American AFS Freshwater Fish Sampling Standardization 102A WALLEYE & PERCH: The “Tails” That Walleye Tell: The History of Walleye Management in Nebraska Reservoirs 103D

8:20am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Otolith microstructure and trace elemental analyses of juvenile Asian carp in the Upper Mississippi River 102D&E

8:40am CST

RIVERS & OXBOWS: A Diel Comparison of Pulsed DC Electrofishing Methods in the Lower Wabash River 103E

9:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Evaluation of Standard Sampling in Kansas Reservoirs 102A

9:20am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Inclusion of New Zealand Mud Snails in the Diet of Benthic Foragers 102D&E

9:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-10: Fish Sticks: Building Local Capacity to Implement Fish Sticks Projects 103A

10:20am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Grass Carp Spawning in Lake Erie Tributaries; When and Where? 102D&E SYMPOSIA-07: Standardization of Fish Sampling Gears in South Dakota 102A

10:40am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Habitat Quality Explains Population Collapse of Invasive Rusty Crayfish in Northern Wisconsin Lakes 102D&E SYMPOSIA-07: Developing, Validating, and Applying Standard Methods to Improve Fisheries Management and Research 102A

11:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Validating the Use of Baited, Tandem Hoop Nets to Index Ohio Reservoir Channel Catfish Density 102A

11:20am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Battle of the Claws: Competition Between Two Non-native Crayfish Species in the Chicago Region and Potential Spread of Red Swamp Crayfish Throughout the Great Lakes Region 102D&E

11:40am CST

WALLEYE & PERCH: A Proposal to Implement a 21” Minimum Length Limit on Walleye Harvest at Cedar Bluff Reservoir, Kansas 103D

1:20pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Combining Invasive Species Risk Assessments with Climate Change Scenarios to Predict Future Invaders in the Great Lakes 102D&E

1:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Simultaneously Assessing Channel Catfish and Flathead Catfish Populations with Unbaited Hoop Nets in the Minnesota River 102A

2:00pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: From Water Chemistry to Fish: The Impacts of Zebra Mussels Across Multiple Trophic Levels 102D&E

2:20pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Implementation of an Aquatic Invasive Species Early Detection Program on Lake Superior 102D&E

2:40pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: A Lakewide Survey of Asian Clam (Corbicula fluminea) Distribution at Warmwater Discharges in Lake Michigan 102D&E

3:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Evaluation of Four Modified Fyke Net Designs for Standard Fish Sampling 102A

3:40pm CST

STURGEON, ESOCIDS & COREGONIDS: Broad Scale Movement of Muskellunge in the St. Clair-Detroit River System: Implications for Interjurisdictional Management 103D

4:00pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Stable Isotopes Indicate Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) Increase Dependence of Lake Food Webs on Littoral Energy Sources 102D&E

4:20pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Early Detection Monitoring of New Zealand Mudsnails Using Qualitative and eDNA Surveys 102D&E

4:40pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Collaboratively Managing Lake Erie Grass Carp Through a Structured Decision Making Process 102D&E

5:00pm CST

AFS North Central Division Ictalurid Technical Committee Meeting Hilton: Mitchell Room

6:00pm CST

Poster Display. A Comparison of Autumn Electrofishing and Autumn Fyke Nets for Sampling Bluegill and Redear Sunfish Populations Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Age and Growth of Freshwater Drum in the Red River of the North, Manitoba Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am CST

STREAMS, DAMS & RESERVOIRS: Growth Rate Potential of Three Important Fishes in Reservoirs Spanning a Productivity Gradient 102C

8:20am CST

STREAMS, DAMS & RESERVOIRS: A Holistic Approach of Characterizing Age and Growth of Bluegill and Redear Sunfish in Small Impoundments 102C

8:40am CST

STREAMS, DAMS & RESERVOIRS: Evaluation of Gill Net Design to Sample Fishes in Kansas Impoundments 102C

9:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-13: Adapting Existing Methods to Reach Waterfowl Hunters with the Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers! Message 101B

9:20am CST

FISH PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR: Why Do Some Fish Strike Fishing Lures? Physiological and Behavioral Mechanisms 103B

10:20am CST

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Angler Opposition to an Increase in the Minimum Length Limit for Walleye at Cedar Bluff Reservoir, Kansas 103C