Learn About Fish Conservation!

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Join Wild Virginia and Conservation Fisheries, Inc on Wednesday, December at 13th at 6:30pm to Learn About Fish Conservation!

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act with Wild Virginia and Conservation Fisheries, Inc by joining us for a webinar on Wednesday, December 13th at 6:30pm! The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted in 1973 to prevent the loss or harm of endangered and threatened species and to preserve the places they live. Now you have the chance to hear firsthand about the work being done to conserve these threatened and endangered fish populations! Conservation Fisheries, Inc. (CFI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of aquatic biodiversity in our rivers and streams. In the past 37 years, they have propagated more than 80 non-game fish species, including some of the most imperiled species in the southeastern United States. Including the Roanoke Logperch- a fish that has been impacted by the Mountain Valley Pipeline! (pictured below)

Photo by Derek Wheaton Hear from Bo Baxter, the current Director at CFI. Bo (he/him) had worked with CFI on and off from 1989 to 1999, and, after a “brief” diversion with the Tennessee Valley Authority, returned for good in 2020. He started his career in the endangered fish propagation business working in the back room at the aquarium store Aquatic Specialists where CFI founders J.R.Shute and Pat Rakes maintained a few tanks of madtoms that would later become CFI. Bo earned a B.S. in Zoology (now Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) in 1993 and an M.S. in Zoology in 1996, both from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville studying under renowned ichthyologist Dr. David Etnier. For his Master’s thesis, he cataloged fish species in the Upper Cumberland River system in Tennessee. You don’t want to miss this unique opportunity to learn more about the preservation of aquatic biodiversity in our rivers and streams!

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