The Otter Valley Aquarium Society is an all ages club for fish keeping hobbyists. We have monthly meetings on the 2nd Tues of the month. We host a yearly fish, plant and equipment auction and we connect with other fish clubs in VT, New England and Montreal. If you are interested in joining, please come to a meeting and have a chat, listen to a guest speaker, check out the auction!
We will have a speaker at our next club meeting Tuesday May 9th. 7:00PM at the Maclure Library in Pittsford Vermont.
Shane Linder will be talking about collecting fish in Venezuela and Colombia. From the high Andes, through the vast llanos to the Orinoco and Magdalena river systems discover the massive diversity of catfishes found throughout Venezuela and Colombia.
Shane Linder is the "Shane" behind Planetcatfish.com's Shane World. Shane's World houses well over 150 articles by various catfish experts making it the largest such resource known to exist. Shane is also a frequent contributor to several US and international aquarium periodicals and has been a guest speaker at numerous fish conventions in the US and Europe. He was a member of the National Science Foundation's All Catfish Species Inventory a global consortium of taxonomists & systematists, which from 2003 to 2009 attempted to facilitate the discovery, description & dissemination of knowledge of all catfish species (spoiler alert... there were too many to describe). From 2000-2020 Shane lived and collected fishes extensively in Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda and Nigeria. He has made additional collecting expeditions into Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.