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AGFC biologist to lead southern fisheries society |
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ROCK - Steve Filipek, a programs supervisor in the fisheries division,
has been elected president of the Southern Division of the American
Fisheries Society.
Filipek, who has been with the agency for 24 years, will preside over the 1,600-member division for 2003-2004. The AFS promotes scientific research and enlightened management of aquatic resources for the enjoyment of the public. He is the fourth biologist from Arkansas to hold such a position. Other Arkansans who served as president were Andrew Hulsey (1959-60), Buford Tatum (1968-69) and Dr. Larry Aggus (1983-84). Filipek began his career in 1978 as a fish culturist at the Joe Hogan State Fish Hatchery in Lonoke. He was promoted to assistant district fisheries biologist a little over a year later in the Hot Springs area and became statewide fisheries research biologist in 1988. He started the Arkansas Stream Team program in 1996, which has grown to a network of 500 volunteer teams statewide that clean, monitor and restore habitat on Arkansas waterways. Filipek is the assistant chief of the fisheries division over the programs section, which includes the Stream Team program, malacologist (mussel biologist), herpetologist, nongame aquatics program and the rivers/streams biologist. He is a certified fisheries scientist with the American Fisheries Society and has a Bachelor of Science degree in fisheries biology from Colorado State University |
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