Leading Fisheries Conservation Professional is the New Executive Director for the American Fisheries Society
Summary
Created in 1870 and with 9000 members from over 50 nations, AFS is the worlds largest and oldest organization of professional fish and fishery scientists and managers.Dr. Austen will also work toward the AFS 2020 Vision: a future where world-wide fisheries production is optimized and sustained while structural and functional conditions of marine, freshwater, and estuarine ecosystems are maintained or improved.Fisheries resources, both freshwater and marine, and from Arctic to Antarctic and everything in-between, are facing huge impacts from harvest, climate change, land development, and many other stresses.Created in 1870 and with 9000 members from over 50 nations, AFS is the worlds largest and oldest organization of professional fish and fishery scientists and managers.Dr. Austen will also work toward the AFS 2020 Vision: a future where world-wide fisheries production is optimized and sustained while structural and functional conditions of marine, freshwater, and estuarine ecosystems are maintained or improved.