PURPOSES: The North American Native Fishes Association-- NANFA--was founded to bring together people interested in fishes native to this continent for scientific purposes or aquarium study; to encourage increased scientific, conservation, and aquaristic appreciation of native fishes through observation, study, and research; and to assemble and distribute information on native fishes.

MEMBER BENEFITS

*AMERICAN CURRENTS, a quarterly magazine featuring articles on finding, collecting, keeping, observing, conserving, and breeding North American fishes; and news about aquaristics, laws, the environment, scientific literature and developments, and other sources of information.

*DARTER, a bi-monthly newsletter with fast-breaking news about NANFA and Native Fish.

*TRADING POST, a section of AMERICAN CURRENTS or DARTER for advertising fish (offered or wanted), fish eggs, plants, publications--anything related to native fish and fishkeeping.

*REGIONAL NANFA CHAPTERS, Join others in your area collecting discussing, and trading Natives. This is your local NANFA fish club so join and enjoy.

*NANFA'S INFORMATION RESOURCES, including access to indexes of native-fish information. For example, NANFA has published the only readily available, computerized, regularly updated list of North American fish species listed by federal, state, and provincial governments as endangered, threatened, or specialstatus; and a directory of native-fish articles that appeared in aquarium publications 1946-1981.

RR MEMBERSHIP COSTS: USA, CANADA, MEXICO, $15/yr. (US$); ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, $17/yr. (US$).

TO: ROBERT E. SCHMIDT, Simon's Rock, Alford Rd. Gt. Barrington, MA 01230

Please begin my NANFA membership. Enclosed is a check or money order made out to NANFA in the amount of

$___________(US$).  This covers_______years at $________a year (US$).

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Non-U.S. Members, please send postal money order in U.S. funds. Thanks.