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The Newsletter of
the Texas Chapter of
the American
Fisheries Society
Volume 24 (3) Fall Issue September 1998
PRESIDENT S MESSAGE
by John Prentice
September is here already and another year is
moving by quickly. The Southern Division American
Fisheries Society business meeting is right around the corner
in Orlando early in October and our own Texas Chapter
annual meeting in Corpus Christi is fast approaching in
January 1999. Plans are underway in these arenas.
The Texas Chapter has been busy in many fronts.
The Issues Committee has worked at disseminating to you
information about Senate Bill 1 (The Water Bill). Past
Chapter efforts in areas of warm water streams for creation of
a public information video and the Red River chloride issue
are beginning to pay dividends. Our Chapter's World Wide
Web site is growing in information and utilization. The
Texas Fisheries Workers list, providing names, addresses,
phone numbers, work areas, and other information has been
added to the Web site. Chapter EXCOM has been working
on improving the efficiency of doing business (see this
newsletter's EXCOM minutes in areas of Nominations and
Endowments). The list goes on and I mention these as items
of Chapter service to you and the natural resources we serve.
I invite all of you to be a part of the service process. There
are places where your help can make a difference on each
Chapter committee or in annual meeting preparations.
Speaking of the annual meeting, Paul
Hammerschmidt has been working hard and successfully at
preparing a great and exciting meeting. This year we will
meet in Corpus Christi at the Omni Bayfront Hotel, January
23-26, 1999. Paul will have a more detailed article in this
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same newsletter so I will not steal his thunder, but I think you
will not want to miss this one. Students and professionals
alike will benefit from and enjoy the meeting. I also invite
each of you to consider presentation of your work at the
technical portion of this meeting. Contact the Editorial
Committee (Gordon Linam 512-353-3480 or e-mail
glinam@itouch.net) with your presentation topics.
American Fisheries Society President, William
Taylor, said in his recent address in Fisheries (Volume 23,
Number 8), "Effective management of fisheries and aquatic
resources depends on our ability to be inclusive, relevant,
innovative, and professional." I see Texas Chapter in each of
those descriptive words. I thank all of you for enabling those
words in Texas Chapter. However, I challenge me, and each
of you, to keep them there. I pray the best for each of you
until next time we meet.
CALL FOE01 IDAIDEIES
The deadline for abstract/paper submittals for presentation at
the January chapter meeting is FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13.
Please send submittals to Gordon Linam at 505 Staples Road,
San Marcos, TX 78666.
Now is the time to be thinking about making a presentation at
the next chapter meeting. Start compiling that data,
generating some figures and slides, and coming to some
grand conclusions that can be shared with your colleagues
this January in Corpus Christi.
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