For Immediate Release
September 22, 2005

Northeast Fisheries Biologists To Convene In Maine

RANGELEY, Maine - Fisheries scientists from the Northeast will be 
meeting in
Rangeley next week to discuss fisheries managament techniques in the
northern New England states, Quebec and the Maritime provinces of 
Canada. 

Each year, the Atlantic Chapter of the American Fisheries Society meets 
in
order to present information on recent studies and learn more from each
other about fishery management techniques in their region.  The 
Atlantic
International Chapter of the American Fisheries Society is comprised of 
5
eastern Canadian provinces and 3 New England American states:  Quebec 
(east
of Three Rivers), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince 
Edward
Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.  The expressed purpose of 
the
Chapter is "to foster communication through total participation 
(workshop
approach) and to exchange applied information and techniques, as well 
as
theory, on fisheries management and culture within the Chapter area". 

There will be several Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 
biologists
presenting at the meeting this week, including Merry Gallagher 
concerning
her Stream Assessment Program; Frank Frost on Habitat Improvement
Evaluation; Forrest Bonney on Western Maine Stream Restoration; Phillip 
Wick
on Fish Hosts and Demographics of Two Threatened Mussel Species. Casey
Jackson of the University of Maine will also present on the critical
conflict between Brook Trout and Smallmouth Bass in the Rapid River.

The 31st annual meeting runs from Sunday, September 25 -27 at the 
Rangeley
Inn in Rangeley Maine. Presentations begin on Monday at 7:45 a.m. and 
will
continue through the day, and from 8:45 until 11:30 on Tuesday.

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