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Film Screening – Last Boat on the Lake – May 21, 2025
Last Boat on the Lake Wednesday, May 21st @ 7:00 p.m. EDT Last Boat on the Lake is a film about the Great Lakes commercial fisheries, one of the world’s largest freshwater commercial fisheries, and yet largely unknown to the general public. This film explores the challenges and opportunities these fisheries face in a rapidly […]
CARS Annual General Meeting – May 2, 2025
Canadian Aquatic Resources Section Annual General Meeting, Friday, May 2nd at 2:00 pm EDT Join us to meet the Executive team, hear about the work we’ve been doing and what’s coming up! A link will be mailed out to active CARS members.
Ontario Steam Assessment Protocol (OSAP) Training – June 2-6, 2025
Monday, June 2 to Friday, June 6, 2025 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Ontario Tech University, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, ON Cost: $1,100.00 + HST This course is designed to train and certify users in a variety of standardized Ontario Stream Assessment Protocol (OSAP) manual techniques for evaluating habitat, invertebrate and fish communities in […]
