{"id":38077,"date":"2022-12-22T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=38077"},"modified":"2022-12-22T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:41:51","slug":"nominations-accepted-for-2023-sport-fisheries-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/12\/22\/nominations-accepted-for-2023-sport-fisheries-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations Accepted for 2023 Sport Fisheries Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recognition for Conservation, Education, and Sportsmanship<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 381px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52421265900_7d70c7d4ea.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of an award plaque\" width=\"371\" height=\"248\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plaque with names of award winners as seen at the 2022 presentation ceremony. Photo by Anthony Burrows, Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/mgmt-committees\/sfac-index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sport Fisheries Advisory Commission<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are seeking nominations for the annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/mgmt-committees\/sfac_award.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Sport Fisheries Achievement Award<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a celebration of conservation, education, and sportsmanship. This prestigious honor recognizes an individual who has provided sustained efforts in habitat management, conservation, education, research, or other meaningful contributions that benefit fish and recreational fishing in Maryland.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nominations for the Maryland Sport Fisheries Achievement Award are being accepted now through January 31, 2023. Recipients will receive a proclamation signed by the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and the chair of the Sport Fisheries Advisory Commission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nominations can be made by completing an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/oL8JXPE2qHzoUeV9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">online form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which includes submitting a detailed essay describing the nominee\u2019s contributions to Maryland recreational fisheries. More information is available by contacting Paul Genovese at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:paul.genovese@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">paul.genovese@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or 443-534-3627.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognition for Conservation, Education, and Sportsmanship The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Sport Fisheries Advisory Commission are seeking nominations for the annual Maryland Sport Fisheries Achievement Award, a celebration of conservation, education, and sportsmanship. This prestigious honor recognizes an individual who has provided sustained efforts in habitat management, conservation, education, research, or other meaningful<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/12\/22\/nominations-accepted-for-2023-sport-fisheries-achievement-award\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5256,5128,4314],"class_list":["post-38077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisheries","tag-maryland-sport-fisheries-achievement-award","tag-sport-fisheries-advisory-commission","tag-sportfishing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38081,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38077\/revisions\/38081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}