Monthly Archives: September 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2020 Contact: Beth Beard [email protected] 240-687-3761 UBC PROFESSOR VILLY CHRISTENSEN RECEIVES THE AWARD OF EXCELLENCE FROM THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY (Bethesda, Md.) September 24, 2020 – Dr. Villy Christensen, professor and former director at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia, received the Award... Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 14, 2020 Contact: Drue Winters, [email protected] or Beth Beard, [email protected] World’s Leading Aquatic Scientific Societies Urgently Call for Cuts to Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Dire consequences for freshwater and marine resources without significant and fast action Bethesda, MD (September 14, 2020) In an unprecedented statement released today, the American Fisheries Society... Read More
September 4, 2020 Gary Frazer U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Department of the Interior Washington, DC 20240 Samuel D. Rauch III National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Protected Resources 1315 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Via regulations.gov Re: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for Listing Endangered and Threatened Species and Designating Critical... Read More
AFS Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the cover art in the August 2020 issue of Fisheries Magazine – a letter to the membership The collage of AFS Past Presidents on the cover of the August 2020 issue of Fisheries magazine resulted in unexpected yet entirely honest and appropriate reactions from a number of... Read More
