{"id":9,"date":"2018-07-24T19:55:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T23:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallearn.wpengine.com\/fishpassagejointcommittee\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2023-04-12T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T16:45:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fishpassagejointcommittee\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Joint Committee on Fisheries Engineering and Science is a professional \u2018home\u2019 for fisheries engineers and scientists and the other professionals who work closely with those disciplines.\u00a0 Formed by the AFS Bioengineering Section (AFS-BES) and the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute (ASCE-EWRI),\u00a0 It serves to provide a nexus for collaboration on fish passage, fish screening, hydropower technology, habitat protection and restoration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In our professional communities and societies, we demonstrate great focus and accomplish great things.\u00a0 However, it is important to recognize that the areas of expertise provided by professional societies\u00a0 are often not mutually exclusive, and in fact part of a greater societies.\u00a0 This is especially true when it comes to waterways and the protection of the aquatic organisms that live within them.\u00a0 The Joint Committee provides an opportunity for professionals with the same interests bring their different approaches together in one place, to share knowledge and expand the range of possible solutions to problems in aquatic management and restoration.<\/p>\n

To provide greater collaboration and a nexus for multidisciplinary discussions, the Joint Committee on Fisheries Engineering and Science was formed in 2010 in order to help arrange the first Fish Passage Conference at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.\u00a0 The Joint Committee is now a funded and permanent standing committee of both ASCE-EWRI and AFS-BES.\u00a0 The committee organizes the annual International Fish Passage Conference (ongoing since 2011), hosts quarterly free webinars on fish passage and restoration, maintains a fish passage data base, and issues the Distinguished Fish Passage Project award.\u00a0 The Joint Committee is a collective of experienced engineers, scientists, planners, and biologists that represent agencies, universities, and private sector professionals.\u00a0 It is the home and steward of the international and annual Fish Passage Conference, where disciplines mix, and collaboration is grounded, reaching outward to facilitate ecosystem recovery on local and global scales.<\/p>\n

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