NANFA convention, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 9-12, 2005. Photos by Tyler Strange and Jan Hoover.

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Little Rock - Capitol of Arkansas and Center of Native Fish Activity during the June 2005 NANFA Convention.	Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's mobile aquarium parked outside the Holiday Inn.	Heather Smith admiring spotted gar.	Tyler Strange with William Scharpf looking at a bigmouth buffalo.
NANFA Hospitality Room. Convention host Brian Wagner registers newly-arrived member Mark Otnes...	...Leo Long, Bob Muller, and Chris Scharpf discuss club business...	...Heather, Tyler, and Michael Lucas look at photographs from past conventions....	...Martin Moore and Karen Kobry sign up for field trips....
...and William rests up for the next day's collecting activities.	Field Trip to the Ozarks. John Stark, from the Nature Conservancy, provides an overview of the habitat and species found in the Strawberry River.	Ken Shirley, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, and Heather examine a snake...	...a midland water snake, the first of several seen on the trip.
Chip Rinehart uses a dipnet to work a rocky riffle....	...and William uses an aquarium net to work margins of the littoral zone.	David Trantor shows his seine with sewn-in chain to catch benthic fishes...	...and William Veenstra shows his own seine with brailes that can serve double duty for injured native fish collectors.
NANFA members begin collecting in the Strawberry River.	Seining in the Strawberry River with reps from the Nature Conservancy.	John Stark, Chris, and Margie Brophy examine their catch.	Whitetail shiner.