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Reflecting on 2025: A letter from the Board to our Women of Fisheries community

To our Fish Sisters and Allies, As we approach the end of another year, we enter a time of reflection. This has been a turbulent and uncertain time for fisheries professionals and the environmental field in general.  Regardless, we are continuing to do the work of conservation and are so...

Introducing the Women of Fisheries Strategic Plan (2025-2030)

We are excited to announce that the Women of Fisheries Board has recently completed our first 5-year Strategic Plan. Over the past two years, we engaged in a collaborative process with numerous discussions to develop a framework that will guide our priorities and better support our members. Our primary goal...

Two Eyes are Better than One: Atlantic Sturgeon Research in the Restigouche River

In our Research Highlights blog series, we debut newly published fisheries research by our women of fisheries colleagues. If you have research you would like to highlight and share with our readers, submit a nomination form here!  Daigle, N.J., S. White, B.A. Lubinski, R. Johnson, D.C. Kazyak, C.E. Verhille, C.-A....

Welcome to our blog series, Research Highlights! Each month, we debut newly published fisheries research by our women of fisheries colleagues. If you have research you would like to highlight and share with our readers, submit a nomination form! This Month’s Research Highlight:Special Issue: Catfish 2020, Communicating Catfish Science: Proceedings […]

Recent research has documented that the early-career job market for marine environmentalists offers few and mostly uncompensated opportunities. The struggle to obtain full time paid work in fisheries science is real and can lead many early career scientists to accept positions that are highly underpaid. For many reasons, some detailed […]

Welcome to our blog series, Research Highlights! Each month, we debut newly published fisheries research by our women of fisheries colleagues. If you have research you would like to highlight and share with our readers, submit a nomination form! This Month’s Research Highlight:Adams, M.S., B. Connors, T. Levi, D. Shaw, […]