The National Fish Habitat Action Plan provides the framework to treat reservoirs as integral components of a nationwide initiative to restore, conserve, and protect aquatic habitat.

A National Reservoir Partnership will provide management coherence and strategic direction to a critical facet of our natural landscapes that has historically been dismissed as unnatural, ephemeral, and disruptive, but which by virtue of its pivotal ecological function can no longer be ignored if we are to effectively protect the nation’s aquatic habitat and conserve its aquatic species.

Partnership News:

• The April issue of the RFHP Newsletter is available for download.
  
  
• The Reservoir Fisheries Habitat Partnership (RFHP) received the Special Recognition Award from the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum. Hall of Fame inductees are individuals or organizations “recognized for outstanding achievements in fishing, science, education, conservation, communications, technology, or other areas related to freshwater sportfishing…” Specifically, inductees in the Special Recognition category are acknowledged for actions that have benefitted fisheries or freshwater sportfishing. They have taken special risk or made politically unpopular decisions later seen as practical and produce positive results for fisheries and/or freshwater sportfishing. Thirdly, the nominee must have a proven record of long-term benefits for fisheries and/or freshwater sportfishing.

  The RFHP is honored to be a recipient of the 2011 Special Recognition Award from the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum.

  The National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) is also a 2011 Hall of Fame award recipient. The NFHAP is recognized in the Organizational/Government Award category. Award recipients in this category must be “an agency or organization that has demonstrated and/or performed a valuable service or act to benefit freshwater sportfishing within its jurisdiction or the boundaries of its organization…” and have a proven track record of long-term actions that fisheries and/or freshwater sportfishing for many years. The National Fish Habitat Action Plan is one of 41 organizations to be inducted in the Organization/Corporate or Government Award category, since the awards started in 1984.

  Source: "Enshrinement/Induction Lists.” Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum - Hayward Wisconsin. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. <http://www.freshwater-fishing.org>.