Start Planning for Spokane 2022, August 21-25!

Start Planning for Spokane 2022, August 21-25!

The Washington-British Columbia Chapter and the Western Division are excited to co-host the 2022 American Fisheries Society meeting in Spokane. The meeting theme is “What Do Fish Mean to Us: Perspectives Above and Below the Waterline”. For more information about the meeting and meeting theme please visit the website.

The call for Symposium proposals, CE courses/workshops, and innovative sessions will open on December 20^th. In preparation, we ask that those considering or planning to submit a proposal check out a new tool that we are implementing this year. We’ve created the “AFS Spokane Symposium Proposal Platform” which can be found here. In an effort to make the proposal process more transparent and to encourage collaboration, we are requesting that you submit a working draft or an initial concept of your symposium or innovative session (lightning talks, etc.) on this site. To use, you will need to create an account and fill in as much of a description of your proposed symposium or session as possible. Please indicate in the title if you are proposing an innovative session idea. Others can view your proposals and comment on them. We encourage authors to be open to new collaboration opportunities. The intent is to facilitate symposium refinement prior to the deadline and allow the program committee to track proposal topics and to actively recruit proposals in areas not yet developed. We hope this tool will spark new ideas and partnerships! Final proposals will need to be submitted to our formal submission page which will open on December 20^th. The deadline for proposals is January 28^th, 2022.