Finishing out our first morning is Susana Garrido, our President-Elect, talking about European Anchovy and Sardine diets through ontogeny!

And we’re back from lunch with our first talk from Catriona Clemmesen titled “Seasonal match/mismatch of herring larvae and their zooplankton prey is related to increased winter water temperatures - comparison of three case studies from Western Baltic spawning grounds”.

Now to focus more on zooplankton as a driver of Herring recruitment in the Western Baltic with a talk by Gesche Winkler! #LFC2025

Rebecca Asch starts off our next topic: “Moving north: effects of anthropogenic disturbances and global change on early life stages of native and non-native species” with a talk about the changes in phenology of 13 different small pelagic fishes in North American waters.

Our second talk focuses on the effects of crude oil on lesser sandeel by Prescilla Perrichon.

Now Katherine Dale is up with a talk titled “Northeastern Pacific fish early life history patterns demonstrate mixed spatiotempiral tradeoffs in response to environmental variability”.

Our first true freshwater talk of the conference comes to us from Stu Ludsin titled “Understanding the mechanisms driving asynchronous recruitment dynamics in western and central Lake Erie’s Yellow Perch populations”. #LFC2025

Time for our final set of talks for the day - starting off with Pascal Sirius talking about if otolith chemistry can reveal capelin spawning areas in the Gulf of St. Lawrence!

Next up: Lucas Jones talking about “What sand lance species inhabits the Hudson Bay System in the Canadian Arctic?”

Yes you’re seeing this right - Rebecca Asch is back on the stage with a second talk titled “Impacts on the Biodiversity, Abundance, and Community Composition of Fish Larvae due to Ship-Channel Dredging”!

For our last scientific talk for the day - Lysel Garavelli talking to us about tracking fish larvae in a changing environment! #LFC2025

Welcome back for day 2 of science talks of #LFC2025! Today we start with a keynote titled “The challenge of studying the ecophysiology of fish larvae” by Céline Audet.

Our first talk in our third topic “Laboratory experimentation to inform ecological and physiological processes in early life stages” comes to us from Jacob Burbank focusing on establishing a lab rearing set up for south Gulf of St. Lawrence Atlantic Herring. #LFC2025

Our second talk of the day comes from Jill Leonard titled “Behavioral capabilities of embryonic and larval Burbot (Lota lota)”!

Lee Fuiman is back up and bringing us back from the break with a talk titled “There is No Silver Bullet: Malpigmentation in Southern Flounder Has Multiple Causes”. #LFC2025

Our next talk is focusing on the tradeoff between the function of seagrass beds as fish nurseries or carbon sinks from Jun Shoji. #LFC2025

Our first student talk of the day comes from Gauthier Lorillard on the effect of electromagnetic exposure on Atlantic cod and haddock! #LFC2025

Our next student talk comes from Nina Bellenger looking at the effects of temperature and polyunsaturated fatty acids from food on the development and transcriptome of striped bass juveniles! #LFC2025

Next up: Yuichi Fukunishi talking to us about methods to alter the female: male sex ratio in hatchery-reared Blackthroat Seaperch. #LFC2025

Our final talk of the morning comes to us from Martin Breton titled “Structure of the Magdalen Islands’ Rainbow Smelt populations in a context of fisheries management and wildlife habitat protection! Next up: lunch and the business meeting! #LFC2025