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AFS, at Your Service
Throughout my time serving as an officer of the American Fisheries Society (AFS), I have engaged in many discussions concerning membership. Those discussions have concerned topics such as how many members we have, why we don’t have more members, why many fisheries professionals attend Chapter meetings but do not become AFS members, and what can we do to make AFS more relevant to people who haven’t joined the Society. Past President Joe Margraf included in his Plan of Work an objective of increasing the relevance of AFS to members and prospective members.
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By: Steve L. McMullin
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