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If you are a fisheries biologist or a student registered in a fisheries biology program, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Department of Natural History, provides an opportunity to improve your fish identification skills. These workshops are designed primarily for professionals, technicians, field biologists, and environmental consultants, but other interested individuals - including university and college students - are welcome.
Workshops offered at the University of Guelph Science Complex (unless otherwise noted).
Full details will be supplied to registered participants 30 days in advance of each workshop.
3-day Introductory Workshop
Presentations and hands-on exercises will familiarize you with the characteristics that are used in distinguishing Ontario’s families, genera, and species of fishes. Exercises will develop your skills of counting, measuring, and examining the pertinent anatomical structures that are necessary to use identification keys. Experienced ROM staff will be available to assist you with exercises, provide advice, and access the specimens housed in the reference collection. Completion of the introductory workshop is mandatory before participation in the Species at Risk workshop.
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These workshops are offered in English Only.