“We are living in unprecedented times.” We hear this almost daily relative to the current COVID‐19 pandemic, the related economic crises, concurrent civil unrest demanding criminal, and social justice reform. Certainly AFS is now in uncharted territory, with the cancellation of all face‐to‐face meetings forcing us to move to virtual meetings. This pandemic forced us to drastically modify the format of our 2020 Annual Meeting, and for only the second time in 150 years, AFS members did not physically gather to discuss fisheries issues (the first instance was 1942–1945 during the Second World War).

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DéjàVu又回来了吗？

“我们生活在前所未有的时代。” 与当前的COVID-19大流行，相关的经济危机，同时发生的动乱，要求刑事犯罪以及社会正义改革相比，我们几乎每天都听到这一消息。当然，AFS现在处于未知领域，所有面对面会议的取消都迫使我们转向虚拟会议。这种大流行迫使我们彻底改变了2020年年会的形式，这是150年来的第二次，AFS成员并没有亲自集会讨论渔业问题（第一次是1942年至1945年第二次世界大战期间）。