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... No attempt was made to reach consensus among the participants; thus, the suggestions recorded in this summary represent the personal views of workshop participants, as summarized by NRC staff. Information was presented by NMFS at the workshop about their need to hire additional individuals in stock assessment and social sciences.
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... Traditional approaches included increasing the availability of graduate ant! post-doctoral fellowships, funding faculty positions in universities, sponsoring programs to reach undergraduates, placing NMFS employees in academic institutions, and disseminating information about career and employment opportunities more broadly.
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... Recruiting Fishery Scientists: Workshop on Stock Assessment and Social Science Careers Other less obvious, but potentially productive, approaches to meeting NMFS staffing needs could include working through scientific societies to find individuals in the academic or consulting communities who could fulfill NMFS' analysis needs, employing foreign scientists as guest researchers, nurturing applied mathematical ecology and population dynamics programs in universities, and sponsoring programs to reach high school students in an effort to influence their college careers.
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