25th Annual Meeting
March 10-12, 2011
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The 2011 Tidewater Chapter annual meeting will be held Mar. 10–12 at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Gloucester Point, Virginia. Our host, President Elect Leonard Machut and the planning committee have been hard at work reserving venues offering spectacular views of the York River and sampling numerous potential delectable caterers for what promises to be an enjoyable event!
Pictured above: Yorktown Freight Shed.
The meeting’s location near Historic Yorktown, which is part of the “Historic Triangle” of Yorktown, Jamestown and Williamsburg, allows for numerous leisure experiences. You can stroll the Yorktown battlefields where General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington during the Revolutionary War or climb aboard the three ships (Jamestown Settlement recreations) that brought the first colonists to Jamestown in 1607.
The Thursday night welcoming “Poster Social” will be held outside the VIMS McHugh auditorium. This will be a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and colleagues and read about some of the new and exciting fisheries research being conducted by Chapter members. After a day of talks on Friday, the Awards Banquet will be held at the Yorktown Freight Shed (a brief walk from the hotel), a terminal for Baltimore steamships until 1952.
Rooms are reserved at the Duke of York Hotel. Additional lodging is available at the Comfort and Hampton Inns in Gloucester Courthouse.
The mission of the American Fisheries Society is to improve the conservation and sustainability of fishery resources and aquatic ecosystems by advancing fisheries and aquatic science and promoting the development of fisheries professionals.
The Tidewater Chapter is composed of members of the fisheries community from Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. The Tidewater Chapter membership is quite diverse with expertise ranging from inland to offshore fisheries.
