The National Fish Habitat Partnership seeks three candidates to join the National Fish Habitat (Board). Join our efforts to protect, restore, and enhance fish habitat nationwide by submitting your application by December 31, 2025. Please email your resume and letter of interest to info@fishhabitat.org.    

Additional Information

The National Fish Habitat Partnership Board (Board) seeks nominations from organizations or individuals whose work and interests include fisheries and aquatic habitat conservation to fill three vacant seats on the Board. The term of the Board seats will be three years once elected to the Board. The Board views the wide range of its members and their respective organizations as critical to our conservation mission to protect, restore, and enhance our country’s fish and aquatic communities through a network of partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation and improve the quality of life for the American people. We are seeking representatives from a variety of sectors, as outlined in the America's Conservation Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2024 (PL 118-198), to help the Board implement the vision and requirements of the ACE Act and the National Fish Habitat Action Plan. 

What is the National Fish Habitat Board?

As detailed in the ACE Act and Board’s National Fish Habitat Action Plan, the Board through its bylaws facilitates the coordination of fish habitat conservation efforts through 20 Fish Habitat Partnerships across the United States. The Partnerships focus on specific geographic regions, species, or habitat types and use an evidence-based, scientific approach to conservation. The 28-member Board is   composed of representatives from federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, private industry, and other partners. Through participation in committees and ad hoc working groups, Board members are responsible for the following:

• Supporting the national network of Fish Habitat Partnerships
• Reviewing Fish Habitat Partnership project submissions
• Establishing National Conservation Priorities
• Communicating NFHP activities with a variety of audiences including Congress
• Developing national habitat assessments to evaluate the condition of U.S. aquatic habitats
• Further implementing NFHP provisions of the America’s Conservation Enhancement Act and Reauthorization. 

The Board is soliciting nominations for three seats representing different sectors listed below.

Representative Seat(s): 

1. (3) Representatives from any of the following sectors /Term Limit: 3 Years 
   • Term Expiration Date: February 2029

• (i) the recreational sportfishing industry;
• (ii) the commercial fishing industry;
• (iii) freshwater recreational anglers;
• (iv) habitat conservation organizations; and
• (v) science-based fishery organizations;