IFS Annual Business Meeting
Annual Business Meeting Agenda
8:00am Pacific Time, Thursday, 12 August 2021
- Start Recording (Karin)
- Land Acknowledgement (Andrea)
- Determination of Quorum and Call to Order (Karin and Erin)
- Roll Call: special guests and officers (Karin and Erin) → welcome to presidents of
- other fisheries societies
- Message from Presidents of the American Fisheries Society (Brian Murphy and
- LeeAnne Roulson, 11:30)
- Message Bronwyn Gillanders: World Fisheries Congress 2021 Adelaide Sept 20-24
- Message from Doug Beard: World Fisheries Congress 2024 Seattle March 3-9
- Message from Doug Austen: Latin American Fisheries Congress 2023 or Patrick
- Cooney
- Message from Executive Director of American Fisheries Society (Doug Austen)
- Treasurer Report (Paul)
- President’s Remarks (Karin)
- Difficult year
- Continued Covid-Caused Issues
- Meetings gone virtual for most part
- Cancellation of WFC2020…Now: WFC2021 20-24 September 2021 – now
- Difficult year
- 100% virtual
- Work plan review and progress
- 2020-2021 achievements
- Editorial Assistance Program (Robert Mussgnug & Julie Claussen)
- OLAF program enabling memberships from LMICs
- WFC-2024 (Doug Beard)
- Award Recipients
- Work plan review and progress
- Exchange Program with Fisheries Society of the British Isles (Thiago)
- Thank you to Award Selection Committee and to Education Section
- FSBI Fellow (Bethany Smith) LIVE PRESENTATION
- AFS IFS Fellow (Sarah Borsetti) LIVE PRESENTATION
- Bern Megrey Endowment $500 Travel Awards (not this year)
- International Section Travel Awards ~$500: Sullivan Fund (Karin)
- Recognition of Service (Karin)
- Patrick Cooney, Erin Loury, Paul Simonin, Peter Holder, So-Jung Youn, Lisa
- Kelly, Mary Fisher, Thiago Sanches, Robert Mussgnug, Abigail Lynch, Gus
- Engman, Andrea Reid
- Introduction of 2021-2022 Executive Committee (Patrick)
- Beth Nyboer, Andrea Reid, Karin Limburg, Paul Simonin, Erin Loury
- President-Elect’s Proposed Work Plan (Andrea)
- WFC2024
- Baltimore 2021; Spokane 2022
- Upcoming IFS opportunities (Karin)
- Low and Middle Income Country membership donations
- Low and Middle Income Country membership recipients
- Awards: FSBI Fellow, Sullivan Travel, Megrey WFC2024
- AFS Hybrid Conference (6-10 November 2021)
- IFS Poster for 150th in Baltimore (Abigail)
- Open Discussion (Andrea)
- Adjourn (Andrea)