Charting the course for the American Fisheries Society: AFS 5-year strategic plan, 2025–2029

The Strategic Plan Committee developed the 2025-2029 draft AFS Strategic Plan with the goal of making the document more useful for AFS unit leadership when developing their annual plans of work while also helping committees and members focus and align their activities to the Society's mission and goals.The emphasis of the draft Plan is to outline Goals and Strategies to help AFS move forward over the next 5 years.The Committee reviewed the previous Strategic Plans, ensuring to capture major salient points from those plans.The Committee also strove to appropriately represent the