Renew Your Membership for 2025!

Log In to Your Account to Renew Your Membership for 2025 Today!

If you are a fisheries professional or aspire to be one, AFS is THE Society that supports your career and passion for fisheries. AFS provides the resources and tools needed to support fisheries professionals and the fisheries community as a whole. To do this, we need the strong support of our members.

AFS Benefits

Renew your membership today and continue the great benefits such as:

• Opportunities to network with peers and mentors through AFS’s Annual Meeting and participating in its many Units
• Free online access to five peer-reviewed scientific Journals and Fisheries magazine
• Career-enhancing opportunities such as our Job Board
• Discounts on books, meeting registrations and more!

AFS Accomplishments in 2024: 

With the help of your membership and support, check out the great things that AFS was able to accomplish in 2024. Over the past year, AFS:

• Published three new fisheries textbooks, including the popular Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition
• Provided decisionmakers with science-based information regarding critical fisheries issues including the need to remove Snake River dams to ensure fish sustainability
• Using sound science, educated policymakers on the importance of amending the Endangered Species Act, and advocated for funding for aquaculture, federal science agencies, and other critical conservation programs
• Successfully placed 37 high school students in paid summer internships with fisheries professionals as part of the AFS Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program
• Hosted the World Fisheries Congress, bringing more than 1,500 globally prominent fisheries scientists together from around the world to discuss the critical challenges facing freshwater and marine fisheries, and aquatic ecosystems.
• Continued its strong efforts to make all fisheries professionals feel welcome and included
• Changed AFS’s publisher of its journals to better service the membership and fisheries community
• Developed an Action Plan in response to the 2022 Membership Survey
• Revamped its website to better meet the needs of the membership

Under the leadership of AFS’s new Executive Director Jeff Kopaska and President Miguel Garcia, we are excited to see how we can expand on these accomplishments and make 2025 better than ever!

Renewal time is a great opportunity to review your contact information and make any needed changes to your account. We’ve also added new demographics to help us get to know our members better so that we can tailor programs to fit all members’ needs.

Support the good work AFS is doing on behalf of all fisheries professionals. To renew, simply log into your AFS account to renew online using a credit card. If you have questions or need help with your login username and/or password, don’t hesitate to contact the Membership Team at [email protected].

Check payments can be sent to:
American Fisheries Society
P.O. Box 65075
Baltimore, MD 21264-5075

Thank you for your membership and your continued participation!
We look forward to serving you as a part of the AFS community in 2025.