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From Fish of the Month to Underwater Wonders

Wrap up of the 2025 Underwater Wonder series - celebrating the diversity beneath the surface, and the people who care deeply about it.

To Our 2025 Sponsors: Thank You!

As we begin the new year, we reflect on the generosity and kindness of our members and allies. Because of your contributions of time, talent, and financial resources, Women of Fisheries is able to continue working towards its mission of connecting, supporting, and amplifying the experiences of women in fisheries...

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...

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, […]