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I’ve been spending quite a bit of time this summer thinking about exotic aquatic species and have some observations on how our profession’s perspective on exotics have changed over time. Isn’t that what’s summer for, some random thinking? Many of you may have heard that zebra mussels have invaded Lake Texoma. In the course of about a year, their abundance has greatly expanded. Where will they show up next in Texas; do we have any chance of preventing their spread? Our profession is now on the forefront of fighting these invaders. However, in the not-so-distant-past, fisheries biologists were actively stocking non-native fishes. Did you know that TPWD stocked Nile perch in Texas? Stockings like that and others such as trihybrid sunfish and orangemouth corvine/spotted seatrout hybrids are a legacy of those days. Should our stance now be something simple as, “Just say no!” Are there instances under the guise of wise management that non-native species can be allowed? I gained some interesting perspectives on exotics on a couple trips to Colorado to escape the Texas heat. We passed Blue Mesa Reservoir, which is the largest reservoir in Colorado. I noticed signs along the road noting that ALL boats need to be inspected for the presence of zebra mussels before being allowed to be launched in the reservoir. Additional warning signs were placed at turn-offs to all the boat ramps. This didn’t seem to impact usage, at least in June 2009, as the lake was covered by fishing boats. Further investigation on Colorado’s website noted that two of the primary sportfish in the reservoir were lake trout and kokanee, neither of which is native to Colorado. The website notes anglers were encouraged to harvest as many lake trout as possible as the lake trout were negatively impacting the kokanee population. The primary reason for sustaining the kokanne was that particular population was used a spawning stock for other water bodies in Colorado. Lots of interesting and conflicting responses to exotics there! I don’t mean to pick on Colorado (sure don’t want Charlie Munger after me!) As noted, Texas has its own history with exotics. I respect the efforts of the biologists involved in those projects as their desire was to improve angling for the public. Those tensions between wise use and protecting the resource are a fact of life in our profession and should always be part of our thought processes when decisions are being made. I hope you are all planning to attend our 2011 Annual Meeting in San Marcos, or better yet, are preparing a talk for the meeting. We’ll see you there! ken.kurzawski@tpwd.state.tx.us; 512-389-4591

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The Texas Chapter AFS annual meeting will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in San Marcos on February 10-12, 2011. The theme of the Plenary Session is “Fish Habitat: Contemporary Approaches for Assessment, Conservation, Enhancement, and Restoration.” The meeting will consist of one continuing education course, an evening social on Thursday, plenary and contributed sessions, our banquet/auction on Friday evening, and the TCAFS business meeting on Saturday. See information below on program overview, registration, and lodging to help plan your trip. Meeting information and updates can be accessed on the TCAFS web page (http://www.sdafs.org/tcafs/meetings/11meet/2011meethome.html).. Program Overview • Continuing Education Workshop (Thursday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM and 1:00 – 5:30 PM) Application of Side-Scan Imaging Sonar and GIS Software for Mapping Aquatic Fish Habitat – Adam Kaeser and Thom Litts (Georgia DNR). Lunch will be on your own. To sign up for the workshop, check the appropriate spot on the meeting registration form or contact Aaron Jubar (aaron.jubar@tpwd.state.tx.us; 903-539-5077). • Student/Professional Mixer (Thursday, 5:30 – 7:30 PM) Light snacks and beverages will be provided (for both hotel and non-hotel guests) in the hotel lobby atrium as part of the nightly manager’s reception. Hotel guests need only to show a room card to be served. Non-hotel guests will be provided drink tickets. There will be plenty of fun, networking opportunities for students. • Plenary Session (Friday, beginning at 8:00 AM, ending time TBD) Fish Habitat: Contemporary Approaches for Assessment, Conservation, Enhancement, and Restoration. Presentations by a host of invited speakers will address a comprehensive list of fish habitat topics. Speaker invitations and commitments are currently being solidified. • Lunch (Friday, time period TBD) Friday’s lunch will be on your own, including the Student-Mentor Lunch. On-site dining is available for a fee inside the hotel’s Rocky River Grille. To sign up for the student-mentor lunch, check the appropriate spot on the meeting registration form or contact Mandy Scott (mandy.scott@tpwd.state.tx.us; 325-651-5556). • Contributed Papers and Presentations (Friday, immediately following the Plenary Session until 5:00 PM and Saturday, 8:00 – 10:00 AM) • Evening Pre-Banquet Social (Friday, 5:30 – 6:30 PM) Light snacks and beverages will be provided (for both hotel and non-hotel guests) in the hotel lobby atrium as part of the nightly manager’s reception. Free beverage service will be provided similar to the Thursday Student/Professional Mixer. • Banquet and Auction (Friday, 6:30 – 10:00 PM) Supper and beverages will be provided as part of the registration price along with the famously entertaining TCAFS auction and raffle. • TCAFS Business Meeting (Saturday, 10:20 AM – 12:00 PM) • Registration Early registration fee will be $85 and $45 for professionals and students, respectively, and includes access to continuing education workshop, Thursday night Student/Professional Mixer, all plenary and technical sessions, and Friday night banquet. Important - The deadline for early registration is January 21, 2011. Late registration will increase by $10 for both professionals and students. The registration form can be found at the end of this newsletter or it can be downloaded from our website at: http://www.sdafs.org/tcafs/meetings/11meet/TCAFS_Registration_Form_2011.pdf.

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• Hotel Information The Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center is located on the IH 35 corridor (exit McCarty Lane; hotel is on east side of interstate) and immediately NE of the outlet mall complex. Room rates are $85 for single king and $152 for double queen rooms. Please identify yourselves as being with the “Texas Chapter, American Fisheries Society” in order to secure the group rate. I encourage all those needing commercial lodging to stay at the conference hotel to ensure we meet our room block obligations. The number to call to make your reservation is 512-392-6450. Important – the cutoff date for making your reservation is January 17, 2011. Access the hotel’s website at http://embassysuites1.hilton.com/en_US/es/hotel/SNMESES-Embassy-Suites-San-Marcos-Hotel-Spa-Conference-Center-Texas/index.do.

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The TCAFS Continuing Education (CE) committee is extremely excited about the upcoming chapter meeting in San Marcos. Adam Kaeser and Thom Litts (Georgia DNR) will be providing training entitled “Application of Side-Scan Imaging Sonar and GIS Software for Mapping Aquatic Fish Habitat”. The seminar will take place on Thursday February 10th 2011 from 11am to 5:30pm. The techniques that will be taught during the course are based on procedures outlined in a recent feature article in Fisheries magazine (Kaeser A.J. and T.L. Litts. 2010. A novel technique for mapping habitat in navigable streams using low-cost side scan sonar. Fisheries Vol35(4)). This seminar will be offered at no cost to you when you register for the meeting. If you pre-register, you can receive seminar notes and materials ahead of time. This is a “hands-on” training course that will require working in teams and using a laptop with ArcGIS software installed. If you have access to a laptop with ArcGIS, please bring it to the seminar.

Special congratulations to TCAFS member Kevin Storey (TPWD Inland Fisheries Biologist) for obtaining his AFS professional certification through the parent society. One of my goals as CE chair is to get as many TCAFS members certified through the parent chapter as possible. I strongly encourage you to obtain your certification as a fisheries professional. The process�if fairly straight-forward and you can contact me with any questions you may have.

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As historian, I believe that we should find out about members as time passes (remember that today is tomorrow’s yesterday). Because of that, I would like to introduce people from a variety of professions. This month I’d like you to meet Randy Rushin, who I have had the pleasure of working with for many years. Randy, founder of Water Monitoring Solutions, Inc. (WMS), has been exhibiting at TCAFS since 1998 (Athens). WMS is a devout supporter of student scholarship fundraising efforts. Over the years, the company has contributed in excess of $7,500 through direct donations to the scholarship fund and purchases at the auction. Water Monitoring Solutions, Inc. provides YSI water quality and SonTek acoustic Doppler velocity products in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and western Tennessee. The company will begin its 10th year in business in 2011 and is recognized as a HUB (woman-owned) vendor by the State of Texas. WMS is based in the northeast Texas town of Sulphur Springs, best known as dairy country and as the gateway to Lake Fork. WMS is truly a family affair. Rita Rushin serves as the President and provides inside sales and customer support. Rita worked for a Fortune 100 company for over 26 years where she was an inside sales and customer service agent. Wendy Rushin is Secretary-Treasurer and assists with accounting and bookkeeping. She is a licensed social worker for a home healthcare provider. Prior to WMS, Randy worked as an Aquatic Scientist for the Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research (TIAER) and the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (currently TCEQ). He holds BS & MS degrees in Aquatic Biology from Stephen F. Austin State University. In addition to sales, WMS performs repairs on most YSI meters and provides field services. The company conducts biological and water quality monitoring, equipment installation, hydrological studies, and continuous monitoring projects. WMS is presently the Clean Rivers Program contractor in the Cypress Basin with the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District and is involved in an intensive bacteria study in the upper reaches of the basin. WMS truly appreciates the continued support of TCAFS members and their loyalty to the company. They can be contacted at 903-439-4741 or at info@water-monitor.com.

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� If it’s good for deer hunters, why not fish squeezers? Deer hunters have been known to resort to wearing pantyhose to keep warm during hunting trips. Many are quite hesitant to talk about their experiences though! An Australian firm markets a product called a Stinger Suit, to protect swimmers, anglers, and other water sports enthusiasts from venomous jellyfish. The garment is essentially a large pantyhose body suit. Some jellyfish have very short stingers which cannot penetrate the mesh and others have stingers which are triggered by contact with the surface of the skin and the nylon provides just enough protection. Although there is debate as to how a thin of nylon mesh protects the wearer from stings, it seem to work. They have been tested on species like the lethally venomous box jellyfish, Chironex fleckeri. If you are planning a trip to do some surfing or fishing in Australia, you might consider picking up one of these fashion statements. According to website of The Stinger Company (http://www.stingersuits.com/), they will provide samples for testing outside of Australia. Coastal folks be advised! If you decide to take the plunge in jelly-fish infested waters and you get stung by non-life threatening jellyfish, here is a tip for you. Use a blow dryer and hold it as close to the site of the stings on the hottest setting you can bear without burning yourself. Fan it back and forth over the affected area. This dries the stingers out without activating them. When they are dry, use a credit card to scrape the stingers off. Don’t whatever you do use

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water on the stingers as this will just make matters worse. Next time you go to the beach your beachbag may contain a Stinger Suit or failing that, at least a blow dryer. Don’t forget a few hundred feet of extension cords!

� Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems A recent USGS study by the National Water-Quality Assessment Program examined the effects of urbanization on algae, aquatic insects, fish, habitat and chemistry in urban streams in nine metropolitan areas across the country. Native fish and aquatic insect numbers were found to decline in urban and suburban streams at low levels of development. "When the area of driveways, parking lots, streets and other impervious cover reaches 10 percent of a watershed area, many types of pollution-sensitive aquatic insects decline by as much as one third, compared to streams in undeveloped forested watersheds," said Tom Cuffney, USGS biologist. "We learned that there is no 'safezone,' meaning that even minimal or early stages of development can negatively affect aquatic life in urban streams." Sites in the following cities were included in the study; Boston, MA, Raleigh, N.C., Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, Milwaukee-Green Bay, WI, Denver, CO, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, Salt Lake City, UT, and Portland, OR. As development in a watershed increases, the amount of pavement, sidewalks and other types of urban land cover increases. Water is rapidly transported over urban surfaces to streams during storm events. Rapid rise and fall of stream flow and changes in temperature can be detrimental to fish and aquatic insects. Stormwater runoff from urban development can also contain fertilizers and insecticides. The response of aquatic insects and fish to urbanization is influenced by prior land cover. In urban streams where aquatic communities were already degraded by previous agricultural land-use activities such as in

Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth and Milwaukee, aquatic communities did not decline. In contrast, in areas such as Boston and Atlanta where forested land was converted to urban use, aquatic communities declined in response to urbanization in metropolitan areas. Stream quality and aquatic health reflect a complex combination of land and chemical use, land and storm-water management, population density and watershed development, and natural features, such as soils, hydrology, and climate. Consequently urban streams respond differently to urbanization.

For details on the study go to http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/urban/ If you prefer, you can access video podcasts at http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/urban/html/podcasts.html.

� Surfing crocodiles? No, no not like that! Crocodiles doing the surfing! More news from Down Under. Australian researchers have found estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus ) make up for their poor swimming abilities by surfing across oceans. These reptiles mainly live in rivers and mangroves in a range extending over more than 3,800 square miles of the Southeast Pacific from India to Fiji and from China to Australia. This swimming strategy explains how the reptile came to occupy so many South Pacific islands despite having little stamina for swimming. Research began on tagging and tracking crocodiles in 2002 between Hamish Campbell, a University of Queensland ecologist, government rangers, and the late environmentalist and television personality, Steve Irwin. They used acoustic telemetry to follow 27 tagged adult crocs in the remote Kennedy River for 12 months. Eight of the tagged crocodiles repeatedly took long journeys out to sea from their river home area more than 35 miles upstream, although a 20-minute swim is hard work for a crocodile. One 13-foot male swam 367 miles over 25 days to another river system where it stayed for seven months before returning! �

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Ecology (2010, 79, 955–964 ) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01709.x/pdf

� Marine Stewardship Council fishery certification program questioned A recent opinion piece published in the journal Nature (Nature 467, 28-29 (2 September 2010) has questioned the procedures and certification of certain species employed by the Marine Stewardship Council (http://www.msc.org/). This organization was established in 1997 by the World Wildlife Fund and Unilever, one of the world's largest fish retailers, to certify sustainable fisheries and to help consumers select "guilt-free" fish to eat. Major North American grocery chains such as Wal-Mart, and Whole Foods sell seafood bearing the blue-mark label as part of their sustainability strategy. Six researchers from Canada, Italy and the U.S. (Jennifer Jacquet, Daniel Pauly, David Ainley, Sidney Holt, Paul Dayton & Jeremy Jackson) object to the many of the MSC's procedures and certification of certain species. The largest MSC-certified fishery, with an annual catch of one million tonnes, is the U.S. trawl fishery for pollock in the eastern Bering Sea. It was certified in 2005 and recommended for recertification this summer. "Pollock has been certified despite a 64 per cent decline of the population's spawning biomass between 2004 and 2009, with no solid evidence for recovery. This has worrisome implications for possible harmful impacts on other species and fisheries besides the viability of the pollock fishery itself," said Jeremy Jackson from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. "How is that sustainable?" Paul Dayton, also of Scripps Oceanography, and David Ainley, a biologist who works in the Antarctic, remain concerned about the recent certification of krill and the proposed certification of toothfish. "The certification of the Ross Sea is an embarrassment as it flies in the face of existing data and denies any sense of precautionary management," said Dayton. "We're especially concerned about the recent certification of Antarctic krill despite estimates of long-term decline and a link between krill population depletion and declining sea ice in areas

sensitive to climate change," said Daniel Pauly, head of UBC's Sea Around Us Project. "The rationale for this certification is on further thin ice because the catch is destined to feed farmed fish, pigs and

chicken." Fisheries that are being heavily depleted, reliant on high-impact methods such as bottom trawling and that aren't destined for human consumption should be excluded from certification, conclude the authors, which include Sidney Holt, a founding father of fisheries science. The authors also noted that the current certification system, which relies on for-profit consultants

and could cost as much as $150,000, presents a potential conflict of interest and discriminates against small-scale fisheries and fisheries from developing countries – most of which use highly-selective and sustainable techniques. Dayton pointed out that "the failure of the MSC hurts the populations that are not sustainably taken and their ecosystems; it deprives the public of an opportunity to make a meaningful choice and it damages those fisheries that are well managed – this is especially important for those sustainable small-scale fisheries competing with the giants that buy certifications they have not earned." "Unless MSC goes under major reform, there are better, more effective ways to spend the certifier's $13-million annual budget to help the oceans, such as lobbying for the elimination of harmful fisheries subsidies or establishing marine protected areas," said Jacquet. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7311/pdf/467028a.pdf �

� A boost for the U.S. Postal Service The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has relied heavily on a home telephone survey since the 1970s to random-digit dial coastal households for information about fishing trips. The NMFS is the lead federal agency mandated with protecting and conserving marine life and habitat off the nation's coasts. Fisheries scientists rely heavily on the survey data to determine which areas off the coast are overfished for specific types of fish. The NMFS manages overfishing in various ways, including by imposing annual limits on the amount and type of fish that can be caught and by declaring moratoriums on fishing. There are 13 million recreational saltwater anglers in the nation, according to the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation. Recreational fishing has an $82 billion annual impact on the nation's economy and supports

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533,000 jobs, according to the American Sportfishing Association. NOAA has estimated U.S. fisheries contribute more than $35 billion annually to the economy, with an estimated $20 billion spent on recreational fishing alone each year. A new pilot study in North Carolina has found a new way to calculate recreational fishing activity in the ocean — and it's proven promising as a method to replace calling people on the phone, according to statistician Lynne Stokes, one of five researchers who conducted the North Carolina pilot study. The study is part of a national overhaul of the way the Fisheries Service collects and reports on recreational fishing data known as the Marine Recreational Information Program, or MRIP. In fact, the study found that the new questionnaire mailed to selected households via the U.S. Postal Service netted a higher response rate and more complete data, said Stokes, a professor in the Department of Statistical Science at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Results of the study were presented as "A Pilot Test of a Dual Frame Mail Survey of Recreational Marine Anglers" in August at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Statistical Association in Vancouver. http://blog.smu.edu/research/2010/08/anglers_stamp_beats_phone.html "Phone responses are declining at an alarming rate," Stokes said, partly due to the jump in households that only have cell phones. "People are just less cooperative with phone surveys." The survey was mailed to 1,800 anglers and included a $1 cash incentive, with a reminder postcard one week later. The rate of response was higher to the mailed surveys than to phone surveys, Stokes said, which is consistent with a general U.S. phone survey trend since the 1980s. Evidence was found that the mail survey suffers from what Stokes described as "avidity bias": People who fish a lot and who are licensed to fish are more likely to respond. The researchers will address that in a revised survey by asking people for information about other recreational activities as well.

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You’ve heard it before, “Back it up”. Unfortunately too many people make plans to follow this advice when it’s too late. The question is not if your operating system or hard drive will fail, but when! Sometimes lost data can be recovered, but it’s so much easier if you can restore it from a sound source rather than trying to salvage it from a crashed system. In the days before hard drives were comparatively inexpensive and fast, preferred methods of data backup involved the use of a variety of tape drives and backup software. Back then we had concerns about memory limitations of backup media so we relied on software to compress and uncompress data as we backed up and restored. This process was also time-consuming and relied on having the backup software installed on all systems where you wished to restore data. In my opinion it makes much more sense today to consider syncing data to hard drives (internal and external), thumb drives and to the “cloud”. Some modern external drives contain their own software which makes the process a bit less painful for the timid. It’s best not to rely on just one system. Consider saving to additional internal drives, and then keeping copies of data “off site” on optical media, external hard drives and/or in Internet-based (cloud) systems in case of disaster or theft. If you sync your data to an external drive formatted with the Windows NTFS file system, you can then plug that drive into any other computer that reads NTFS (Windows machines from XP forward) pull your data up and get to work. It’s up to you to decide what you want to back up; anything you don’t want to lose! Organizationally it’s much easier to save your data if it’s housed within the same folder, arranged into sub-folders. In this way, when you set up a backup or sync routine, you’re not having to remember folders scattered over your hard drive. Keep it Simple! That’s not always possible as some applications can set up their own folder structure for data. Here are a few suggestions of applications and services you might consider for your backup strategy.

• If you’ve got Windows 7 you’re in luck. Windows Backup is included to satisfy your data needs. This is apparently Microsoft’s best effort to date. Previous versions did so poorly they spurred the creation of third party applications. You can also create an image of your system as well as a recovery disk.

• My favorite syncing utility is an open-source utility that originated in UNIX called rsync. It is ported to

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Windows as cwrsync (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sereds/files/). Be warned there is no hand-holding here. It is a powerful utility but it requires the creation of batch files (that’s old-school computing) which

you can be set up to run automatically using Schedule Task Wizard in Windows. I use this program to create data syncs in Windows XP and Windows 7 environments. Additionally, I also use rsync in Linux to save Windows data to an internal drive on the Linux box along with an external USB drive formatted in NTFS so I can connect it directly to a Windows machine and read the data. If you want to try cwrsync and it seems a bit confusing, call me and I’ll try to help you work it out.

• Rsync is also packaged as Fullsync (http://fullsync.sourceforge.net/), another open-source program. This version includes a scheduler so it should a bit less daunting to use.

• Microsoft also has a utility called SyncToy available for download (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=C26EFA36-98E0-4EE9-A7C5-98D0592D8C52&displaylang=en)

• If you use Microsoft Outlook (2002, 2003 or 2007) and you need an easy way to back up your .pst files (e-mail data files) download the Personal Folders Backup Add-in (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=8B081F3A-B7D0-4B16-B8AF-5A6322F4FD01&displaylang=en). This is invaluable insurance if your system crashes and takes Outlook with it. I recommend saving these files to another drive or to an external source.

• If you use the Mozilla browser Firefox or the e-mail client Thunderbird, you can easily make backups of data needed to rebuild your system by using Mozbackup (http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/). I use this utility to create backups on a routine basis and if I need to rebuild a system in a non-emergency situation. I don’t know of any way to schedule this to run automatically.

• If you want to take the worry out of backup, you might consider using a cloud-based service like Mozy. You can sign up for MozyHome (http://mozy.com/home/free/) which gives you 2GB of free backup space. You can create automatic or scheduled backups. If that’s not enough storage space for you, consider a commercial service like MozyPro (http://mozy.com/pro) or Carbonite (http://www.carbonite.com/).

• If you want to share data on different machines, without using a network, install Dropbox (www.dropbox.com). Simply install the application on each machine (Windows, Mac, and Linux) and you’ll get access to 2 GB of online storage. Save files to your Dropbox account at work and access it from your home machine. There are also mobile device applications for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android. Save photos to Dropbox and display them on your mobile. Data saved to Dropbox is automatically backed up on their servers. If you need more than 2 GB, commercial services for 50 GB or 100 GB limits are available.

• If you want to share hi-def video, photos, and music use Lidox (http://www.libox.com/). Share your media privately with your friends, for free. Access files through your favorite browser or through the installed desktop application at its original resolution. There’s also an application available through iTunes for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

• Microsoft has been developing a cloud-based backup service which was originally branded as Live Mesh and Live Sync. These products allow you to save files to virtual folders in the “cloud” and access them from any machine through a browser. Live Mesh also allows you to get remote access to other computers that you have connected to your service. The most current version called Windows Live Mesh 2011 is a part of Windows Live Essentials. It is in beta and only supports Windows 7 (https://www.mesh.com/welcome/default.aspx.) Microsoft appears to be dropping support for Windows XP’s use of these technologies.

• As a last resort, if you have a system that won’t boot and you want to try to recover data from your drive, you can try to boot up to a Linux live CD. You’ll need to download an image file (.iso file) of a popular distribution such as Knoppix (http://knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/download.php?lang=en&link=http://archive.cs.stedwards.edu/knoppix/) or Linux Mint (http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=66) and burn it to CD or DVD depending on your download. This creates a Linux distribution with which you can boot up. You’ll need to go into your system BIOS and ensure your optical drive is set as first boot device. After you have checked this, insert the disc and

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re-boot your computer. If everything works, Linux will boot up and give you access to your hard drive. You can attach an external hard drive and copy your files from your faulty hard drive. If you are not too adventurous, you might need to seek professional help!

August 20, 2010

AFS-Texas Chapter Attention: Ken Kurzawski Austin, TX

Ken:

The organizers of the 2nd International Catfish Symposium sincerely thank you for your support. As a result of your gracious assistance, the Ictalurid Technical Committee of the North Central Division of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) and the Catfish Management Technical Committee of the Southern Division of AFS held the symposium in St. Louis Missouri from June 19-22, 2010.

In the face of major travel restrictions and budget cuts, symposium attendance still reached 205 fisheries professionals from 32 states and five countries. Attendees represented state and federal governments, universities, and non-profits. Without your and other sponsors support, this level of attendance would have simply not occurred. Thank you.

The meeting included a major exchange of information about the biology, ecology, management, and conservation of worldwide catfish populations and their habitat. The plenary session was top notch and included presentations from Dr. Don Jackson on “Advances in Catfish Science during the Last Decade,” Steve Quinn on “Human Interactions with Catfish,” Dr. John Armbruster on “Global Catfish Diversity,” and Dr. Zeb Hogan on “Conservation Issues and Efforts with Large Catfish Worldwide.” Overall, nearly 100 presentations occurred (65 oral and 34 posters). More than 65 of which have been submitted for the symposium proceedings. The proceedings will be published through AFS and July 2011 is the target date for publication.

Again, on behalf of the attendees and the entire planning committee, thank you very much for your support of this timely and important symposium. It indeed was a rousing success and only occurred because of your gracious support.

Sincerely,

Tom Lang Fundraising Chairman 2nd International Catfish Symposium (620) 672-0722 tom.lang@ksoutdoors.com

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Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are requested for the 2011 annual meeting of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. The meeting will be held Thursday through Saturday, February 10 – 12, 2011 at the Embassy Suites and Conference Center in San Marcos, Texas. To submit an abstract to be considered for the technical program, please provide the following information: Author name(s) (presenting author should be noted with an *) Presentation type (oral or poster … please indicate whether you are willing to present the data in the alternative format if requested) Contact information (affiliation, street address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, and email address) Presentation title Abstract (Single paragraph, 300-word maximum length) In addition, please indicate your intentions for the presentation in the 2011 TCAFS Proceedings (abstract-only or manuscript), and indicate whether the presenter is a STUDENT or PROFESSIONAL. To be considered a student presenter, you must be enrolled at the time the abstract is submitted. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTERS … please indicate your willingness to judge student presentations. Oral presentations should be prepared as a 15-minute presentation (with 5-minutes for open discussion) using MS PowerPoint®. Poster presentations should be formatted to include a title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion/conclusion, and literature cited. Posters must not exceed 48” in any dimension. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS IS DECEMBER 1st, 2010. Please submit your presentation abstract ELECTRONICALLY (preferably in MS Word®) to: Dan.Daugherty@tpwd.state.tx.us We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

CALL FOR PAPERS

2011 Annual Meeting Texas Chapter

American Fisheries Society

February 10 – 12, 2011

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February 10-12, 2011

Registration includes access to all technical sessions, the continuing education workshop, Thursday night Student/Professional Mixer, and Friday night banquet. The deadline for early registration is January 21, 2011.

Name__________________________________________ Date_________________________

Street Address __________________________________________________________________

City__________________________ State__________ Zip__________________________

Work Phone___________________ Email Address _________________________________

MEETING REGISTRATION: Cost/Person Total Cost Regular Member Registration – Received by 1-21-11 $85.00 Received after 1-21-11 $95.00 Student*/Spouse Registration – Received by 1-21-11 $45.00 Received after 1-21-11 $55.00 Chapter Dues – Professional/Student (Please note student registration & membership is for full-time, currently registered students only.) $12/$5

Would you like to donate to the TCAFS Scholarship Endowment Fund? Yes No (please indicate amount in far right column)

TOTAL REGISTRATION COST (make checks payable to TCAFS) $__________ Yes, I would like to participate in the Friday Student/Mentor Lunch. If yes, please pair me with someone with interest in or experience with: Government Agency ________ Academia ________ Private Consulting ________

COMMITTEES: – Please indicate which committee(s) you are willing to serve on.

Awards Internet Nominating Editorial Endowments Pond Management Issues Membership Publicity/Exhibits Stocks at Risk* Continuing Education Student Outreach Exotic Species*

*Subcommittees of the Issues Committee

MAIL COMPLETED REGISTRATION (1 form per person) AND PAYMENT TO: (please make checks payable to TCAFS).

Greg Conley TX Chapter AFS Treasurer 11942 FM 848 Tyler, TX 75707 Phone: 903-566-2518 greg.conley@tpwd.state.tx.us

To pay by Credit Card (PayPal), check here and email completed registration form to Greg Conley.

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