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South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks
Sunday, January 28
 

1:00pm CST

AFS NCD Reservoir Technical Committee Meeting Hilton: Wright Ballroom A

2:30pm CST

AFS NCD Walleye, Centrarchid, and Esocid Technical Committee Meeting Hilton: Wright Ballroom A
 
Monday, January 29
 

8:00am CST

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

10:00am CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

1:20pm CST

WALLEYE: Biological and Social Responses to Walleye Recruitment Failure on Minocqua Chain, Wisconsin 103A

1:40pm CST

WALLEYE: Recovery and Management of the Saginaw Bay Walleye Population 103A

2:00pm CST

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

2:20pm CST

WALLEYE: Identifying Recruitment Bottlenecks for age-0 Walleye in Northern Wisconsin Lakes 103A

2:40pm CST

(CANCELLED) WALLEYE: Lac Vieux Desert: Management Challenges and a Cooperative Plan to Restore a Naturally-reproducing Walleye (Sander vitreus) Population in a Northern Wisconsin Lake 103A

3:00pm CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

3:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Walleye Habitat: Considerations for Successful Natural Reproduction and Stocking 102D&E WALLEYE: Potential for Reducing Largemouth Bass Abundance in Wisconsin Lakes Using Angler Harvest 103A

3:40pm CST

WALLEYE: Quantifying the Costs of Climate Adaptation to Agencies and Anglers: A Case Study of Wisconsin’s Inland Lake Walleye Fishery 103A

4:00pm CST

WALLEYE: Walleye Management in the Red Lakes, Minnesota: Collapse, Recovery, and Cooperative Management 103A

4:20pm CST

WALLEYE: Assessing the Dispersal of Stocked Walleye Fry in a Northern Minnesota Chain of Lakes 103A

4:40pm CST

WALLEYE: Differential Effects of Algal and Sedimentary Turbidity on the Visual Systems of Walleye (Sander vitreus) and Their Prey 103A

5:00pm CST

Student / Professional Networking Mixer Hilton: Crystal Ballroom
 
Tuesday, January 30
 

8:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: An Overview of North American AFS Freshwater Fish Sampling Standardization 102A

8:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Placing Gear Standardization in a Broader Context That Advances Science-based Fisheries Research and Management 102A

9:00am CST

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

9:20am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: An Overview of Indiana’s New Reservoir Status and Trends Monitoring Program 102A

9:40am CST

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

10:00am CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

10:20am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Standardization of Fish Sampling Gears in South Dakota 102A

10:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Developing, Validating, and Applying Standard Methods to Improve Fisheries Management and Research 102A

11:00am CST

WALLEYE & PERCH: Walleye Movements in Green Bay: Testing Assumptions of the Current Conceptual Model for Management 103D

11:20am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Evaluating Electrofishing Techniques: A Critical Step in Developing Standardized Sampling Methods for Smallmouth Bass 102A

11:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Spatial and Temporal Distribution Affects Standardized Sampling Results of Two Sportfish Species in a Midwestern Reservoir 102A

1:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Using Statewide Survey Data to Support Local-scale Management in Michigan Streams 102A

1:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-11: Reproductive Health of Catostomid Species in Two Midwestern Rivers 102C

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

STURGEON, ESOCIDS & COREGONIDS: Shifting Population Dynamics of the Commercially Exploited Shovelnose Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) in the Wabash River 103D

2:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Long-term Monitoring Shows How Highly Modified Rivers Respond to Additional Drivers of Change 102A

3:20pm CST

STURGEON, ESOCIDS & COREGONIDS: Muskellunge Population Responses to Angler Catch-and-Release Practices in Escanaba Lake, Wisconsin, 1987-2014 103D

3:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Using Variation in Lake Sturgeon Microsatellite Loci to Assess Artificial Spawning Reefs and Sampling Methods in a Large River System 102A

4:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Hydroacoustic Estimates of Prey-fish Abundance Change with Various Analytical Decisions 102A STURGEON, ESOCIDS & COREGONIDS: Adult Muskellunge Growth and Annual Survival in Escanaba Lake, WI 1956-2015 103D

4:20pm CST

STURGEON, ESOCIDS & COREGONIDS: A Tool for Evaluating the Growth Potential Status of Muskellunge in Wisconsin Lakes 103D

4:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-07: Standardized Assessments Reveal Context-dependent Responses of Crappie Populations to a Length-based Regulation in Ohio Reservoirs 102A
 
Wednesday, January 31
 

8:00am CST

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

8:40am CST

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Bridging the Social-Ecological Gap with Anglersheds 103C

9:00am CST

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Economic and Spatial Assessments of Angling at Small South Dakota Lakes 103C

9:20am CST

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

9:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-13: Learning to Hunt: Adult-focused Hunter Recruitment and Retention in Michigan and Wisconsin 101B

10:20am CST

GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: The Wisconsin Lake Leaders Institute: Building Future Lake Champions Through Education and Engagement 103D HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Angler Opposition to an Increase in the Minimum Length Limit for Walleye at Cedar Bluff Reservoir, Kansas 103C

10:40am CST

WATERFOWL: Waterfowl Hunter Satisfaction over the Years 102B

11:00am CST

GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: Wrestling with Recruitment 103D

11:20am CST

STREAMS, DAMS & RESERVOIRS: Fisheries Data at Your Fingertips: Using ‘Shiny’ to Analyze and Share Wisconsin Fisheries Data with Managers and Stakeholders 102C