Four Thousand Hooks – Book Launch and Signing

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A book cover for 'Four Thousand Hooks'University of Washington Press will release SAFS alum and guest lecturer Dean Adams’  book Four Thousand Hooks on Oct. 1, 2012. Join Adams on Oct. 7 to celebrate the arrival of Four Thousand Hooks—a true story of fishing and coming of age on the high seas of Alaska— a view like no other, into the culture and lifestyle of Alaska fishermen.

What: Book Launch & Signing – hosted by Captain’s Nautical Supply
Date + Time: Sun. Oct. 7 @ 1pm
Where: Seattle Public Central Library (1000 4th Ave., Seattle), Microsoft Auditorium

 “I relived my own past reading Four Thousand Hooks. The way Adams describes seeing things for the first time through the eyes of a greenhorn crew member—the sights and smells, what it’s like to really feel work and exhaustion, being on your own as a young man in Alaska—brought back memories I didn’t know I had.”

– Sig Hansen, Captain of the NORTHWESTERN, as seen on DEADLIEST CATCH

The Role of Molecular Genetics in Fisheries Management: Historical Perspectives

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On October 2 at 12:30 p.m., SAFS Affiliate Professor Fred Utter will give a presentation entitled The Role of Molecular Genetics in Fisheries Management:
Historical Perspectives in FSH 203.

Speaker bio:
Fred Utter, Ph. D., is an affiliate professor in the School of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at the University of Washington. Considered the founding father of fishery genetics, in 1959 he began work in the ancestor laboratory of the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center fishery genetics laboratory, of which he became the head in 1969. He led the genetics group until he retired from NOAA in 1988. During retirement, he has remained active in the field, acting as editor of the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, as well as being a member of the Interior Columbia River Technical Recovery Team. He has authored over 150 scientific publications, andco-edited the book Population Genetics and Fishery Management.

Native invaders divide loyalties

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A drawback to the attention garnered by high-profile invasive species is the tendency to infer that every non-native species is bad news, the inverse assumption being that all native species must be ‘good’. While this storyline works well for Hollywood films and faerie tales, in ecology the truth is rarely that simple. A new review article that Julian Olden and colleagues at NOAA Fisheries co-authored in the September issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, describes the challenges and heartbreaks when native species run amok in the sense of having negative ecological impacts we typically associate with non-native species. Examples in the paper range from unchecked expansions of juniper trees in sagebrush ecosystems with wildfire suppression, to overgrazing by elk (wapiti) released from predation following the removal of wolves and mountain lions. Read more …

California sea lion at Bonneville fish ladder chowing down on some salmon … yummy. Credit: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.