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NASPS Call for 2024 Meeting Location

1 August 2023

The North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish Society (NASPS) will hold a standalone meeting in 2024 and is requesting proposals for locations and hosts for the meeting. Having a standalone NASPS meeting in 2024 builds on the success of our recent meeting in Folsom, California. Proposals

Dr. Serge Doroshov, His Team, and California Sea Grant’s Success

27 July 2023

The following article describes Dr. Serge Doroshov, his team, and California Sea Grant's success in the culture of white sturgeon. https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/roe-crops-how-sacramento-became-caviar-capital-us

NASPS Annual Meeting to be held at AFS 2023

20 March 2023

2023 Annual Meeting of North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish Society symposium at AFS The North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish Society (NASPS) is sponsoring a symposium entitled "North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish: Challenges to Adaptive Management During Ecosystem Change" at the American Fisheries Society (AFS) national

Call for Abstracts for NASPS Symposium at AFS 2023

12 March 2023

The North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish Society (NASPS) is sponsoring a symposium at the American Fisheries Society (AFS) national meeting in Grand Rapids, MI on August 20-24, 2023. The session id is #16: North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish: Challenges to Adaptive Management During Ecosystem Change.

Sturgeon Mass Mortality Webinar

28 February 2023

NASPS is hosting a free webinar from 8:00-9:30 AM PDT on Tuesday March 14th about recent sturgeon mass mortality events. Speakers will be Dylan Stompe from California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Joern Gessner from IGB Berlin, Adam Fox from the University of Georgia, and

NASPS Student Travel Awards 2023

20 February 2023

NASPS is announcing student travel awards to attend the sturgeon symposium at the 2023 AFS meeting. We anticipate giving up to three $500 awards this year. Please see the link below for application details. Application materials for are due April 30, 2023. Student Travel Award

NASPS 2022 Annual Meeting Summary

20 February 2023

The NASPS 2022 annual meeting was held in Folsom, California in October. We had 79 attendees and 40 presentations over 2.5 days. Six of the North American sturgeon and paddlefish species were represented by presenters. Two workshops, a Green Sturgeon recovery workshop and an acoustic

NASPS 2022 COVID Guidelines

24 September 2022

NASPS Commitment to Safety during the 2022 Annual Meeting In order to protect our participants, the NASPS has adopted COVID guidelines similar to other recent fisheries* meetings. We recommend that face masks are worn at all indoor meeting events. We also strongly recommend that

NASPS 2023-2024 Elections

24 September 2022

The NASPS Elections are underway. Please click the link to access the candidate bios. You will receive a ballot directly as a current member of NASPS. NASPS Election Bios

IUCN Assessment 2022

1 August 2022

The new assessment of the sturgeons and paddlefishes of the IUCN-SSG The latest global assessment conducted by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Sturgeon Specialist Group), dating back to 2010, classified all 27 species that compose the order of Acipenseriformes

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