• Fisheries and Aquaculture, B.T.
  Fisheries and Wildlife Department
  American Fisheries Society Student Sub-Unit

The American Fisheries Society Student Sub-unit at SUNY Cobleskill was formed in 2000 and is dedicated to Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Education and Conservation. This sub-unit of the parent New York State AFS Chapter is a fully recognized campus organization with its own mission, constitution, budget, events and officers. Officers of this club must be members of the American Fisheries Society and members of the club are encouraged to enroll in AFS.

Canoe trips, camping, ice fishing excursions, fish fry dinners, willow plantings for habitat restoration, a fish and wildlife festival and trips to fisheries annual meetings are events planned by AFS members. The highlights of the last year were trips to the national meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Baltimore and the World Aquaculture Society meeting in Kentucky. In Baltimore AFS officer Brian McDonnell presented a paper titled "Description of predator diets prior and subsequent to walleye (Steizostedion vitreum) stocking during the day vs. at night in Otsego Lake in 2001-2002" which summarizes his work as a Robert C. MacWatters intern at the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station at Otsego Lake.

AFS student Subunit gather at the SUNY Cobleskill alumni reception at the 2006 AFS National meeting in Lake Placid.

	AFS members deep sea fishing in Chesapeake Bay after 2002 AFS Annual meeting
AFS 2002 President Jason Cheever with a whopper
	AFS past President Dan Willman holding a Lake Champlain Lake Trout aboads UVM's research vessel
The AFS group at the World Aquaculture 2003 Annual Meeting
	Brian McDonnell presenting his paper at the 2002 AFS Annual Meeting in Baltimore
AFS member Kevin O'Gorman drawing blood from a yellow perch at the World Aquaculture Society Annual Meeting in 2003.