The American Fisheries Society will be publishing a forthcoming special issue of Fisheries<\/em> magazine dedicated to diversity and inclusion. Your voice is important! Please contribute a short<\/u> vignette (max 150 words, or an image) of your perspective on or your experience with “diversity and inclusion.” We want to represent as many voices as possible, in your own words, captured as vignettes throughout the special issue.<\/p>\n Contributions can be submitted to a box at the registration desk and throughout the AFS meeting venue. A dedicated poster and drop off location will be available in the Poster Session. If you can’t make it to Atlantic City, please use the form below. Thank you for sharing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Diversity and Inclusion in the Fisheries Profession: Leadership and Action The low diversity of gender and race or ethnicity in the fisheries profession stands in stark contrast to our efforts to maintain species biodiversity as a foundation of sustainable fisheries management programs and resilient ecosystems. The inaugural 2017 AFS symposium on Diversity and Inclusion focused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":1605,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afsannualmeeting2018.fisheries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afsannualmeeting2018.fisheries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afsannualmeeting2018.fisheries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afsannualmeeting2018.fisheries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afsannualmeeting2018.fisheries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afsannualmeeting2018.fisheries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afsannualmeeting2018.fisheries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afsannualmeeting2018.fisheries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}