Thursday March 26, 2026
Cal Trout —
Every year, the California-Nevada Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) brings together a community of people who care deeply about native fish, watersheds, and the science that enhances our ability to understand and protect them. This year’s annual meeting convened in Chico in mid-February, drawing Tribal leaders, academics, students, agency staff, and conservation practitioners from California, Nevada, Oregon, and beyond.
Under the theme “From Microscapes to Macroscapes: Integrating Knowledge Across Scales and Systems,” the event featured fascinating talks, poster presentations, field tours, a fish printing workshop, a salmon run, and much more. This conference is built around the idea that protecting fish means working at every scale, from single stream biology to whole watersheds to the web of communities that depend on them.