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This post is brought to you by the “Women of Fisheries”, a Facebook group dedicated to providing a place for the awesome women of fisheries to connect, share stories, ask questions, learn from each other, and together tackle some of the issues facing women in our field. There’s not a reliable method to determine how many women work in fisheries research-related fields, partly because we work in so many different capacities, including government agencies, universities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and consulting firms to name a few. The choice to work from home a couple of days a week or have flexible working hours would be a huge help, both while pregnant and after having kids. When I returned to work, a flexible work schedule and the option to work from home made the transition so much easier.
Years of new jobs, new towns, and new people. It’s hard to keep friends, and even harder to make new ones, knowing either you or they will probably move away in short time. During that time, we’ve also earned 5 PhDs, published a peer-reviewed article, had 5 weddings, birthed 8 children, and made more cross-country (and some international) moves than we’d dare to count. Now that we’re all grown up and in pretty stable professional positions, we’re starting to think about new collaborations—the kind that helped us get to this point.
Few of us in the field of fisheries don’t owe some sort of debt to the Sportfish Restoration (SFR) Fund for where we are today. Whether we grew interested in the field because of resources managed by SFR dollars, completed projects in school funded by SFR, or, like me, got our first jobs out of grad school in SFR-funded positions, it is hard to overstate what a major component it is to how we fund fisheries work at our natural resource agencies
A sea star is not usually the first example that comes to mind when picturing a voracious and fearsome top predator. However, many sea stars, the star-shaped echinoderms colloquially called “starfish” and often found in beach-motif decor, are just that: awesome top predators