Location: Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT
The Southern New England Chapter of the American Fisheries Society will be hosting a one-day science meeting on Wednesday, June 25th at Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley St. New Britain, CT 06050.
We highly encourage students to attend the meeting, which presents an excellent opportunity to share your work and to network with folks from across private, government and non-profit sectors.
Registration is now open, with a preregistration deadline of June 9.
Register here: https://snec.fisheries.org/meetings/meeting-registration/
SNEC AFS 2025 SUMMER SCIENCE MEETING
Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT
Welcome:
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:10 Opening Comments. Abigail Archer, SNEC President
Plenary Presentation:
9:10 – 10:10 Dr. Barry Chernoff, Wesleyan University, Director of the Bailey College of the Environment
10:10 – 10:20 Break
Contributed Oral presentations, Morning Session:
10:20 – 10:35 Designing a long-term monitoring program for Connecticut’s nearshore fish communities.
Miller, Michael
10:36 – 10:51 The Implementation of fishery-dependent data collection for Channeled Whelk and Knobbed Whelk in Southern New England.
Thomas, Victoria, David Bethoney, Conor McManus, and Shelly Edmundson.
10:52 – 11:07 Incorporation of biogeography into taxonomic assignment yields increased classification accuracy of fish.
Powers, Christopher, Richard McBride, and Yuan Liu.
11:08 – 11:23 Drivers of fish community structure and spatial variability in coastal Rhode Island revealed by baited remote underwater video (BRUVs).
** Moine, Talia, David Taylor, Jake Beretta, Alex Korbobo, and Jon Dodd.
11:24 – 11:39 A new paradigm for black bass management in Connecticut.
Bade, Andrew, Spencer Mallette, Christopher McDowell, and Joe Cassone.
11:40 – 11:55 Round Goby Acoustic Telemetry Feasibility Study.
Rogers, Steven, Bryan Apell, Sam Hannabass, Matt Brewer, Kevin Nebiolo, and Kate Littrell.
12:00 – 12:45 Awards and Business Meeting
12:45 – 1:45 Lunch
Contributed Oral presentations, Afternoon Session I:
1:45 – 2:00 An unidentified fish sound from the Kennebec River, Maine.
Rountree, Rodney, Jason Bartlett, and Francis Juanes.
2:01 – 2:16 Swimming a mile together: Navigating transdisciplinary currents in Atlantic Sea Scallop research to build climate resilience in the fishery.
** Halle, Berger, Samantha Siedlecki, Shannon Meseck, Lisa Colburn, James LaChance, Dvora Hart, Catherine Matassa, Zhuomin Chen, Felipe Soares, Emilien Pousse, Enrique Curchitser, Rebecca Selden, Antonie Chute, David Bethoney, and Susan Inglis.
2:17 – 2:32 Evaluating temporal shifts in Winter Flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) stock dynamics.
** Luddy, Julia, Michelle Staudinger, Steven Cadrin, and Lisa Kerr
2:33 – 2:48 Morphometric relationships between Black Sea Bass and their crustacean prey in Long Island Sound.
** Tripp, Kaitlyn, Hannah Roby, and Hannes Baumann.
2:49 – 3:04 PFAS contamination in top-level predatory fishes from freshwater and marine environments.
Taylor, David, Michaela Cashman, Melanie Hedgespeth, Jonathan Serbst, Jim Lake, and Anna Robuck.
3:05 – 3:15 Break
Contributed Oral Presentations, Afternoon Session II:
3:15 – 3:30 Digesting the evidence: Black Sea Bass and trophic impacts in Long Island Sound.
** Roby, Hannah, Hannes Baumann, Paola Batta-Lona, and Catherine Matassa.
3:31 – 3:46 A yearlong eDNA survey of fishes in Long Island Sound: Does aquaculture gear matter?
Yuan, Liu, Renee Mercaldo-Allen, Richard McBride, Christopher Powers, and Julia Rose.
3:47 – 4:10 Assessing changes in Atlantic Sea Scallop shell coloration over time and space.
** Pasquino, Jillian, Halle Berger, Samantha Siedlecki, and Catherine Matassa.
4:11 – 4:25 Closing comments, Michael Burgess, SNEC President