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Maureen Clark (907) 786-3953 Bruce Woods (907-786-3695
Service Names New Assistant Regional Director for Subsistence Management
Peter Probasco has been approved as the Assistant Regional Director-Subsistence Management, replacing Tom Boyd, who recently retired. Prior to joining the Fish and Wildlife Service, Mr. Probasco worked for 22 years with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, beginning as a fishery biologist and, over time, advancing into positions of increased responsibility, culminating in his appointment as a Regional Supervisor based in Kodiak. In that capacity, he was responsible for all commercial, subsistence, and personal use fisheries for the Western Gulf of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, as well as the shellfish fisheries of the Bering Sea.
Mr. Probasco has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?s Alaska Region Office of Subsistence Management for the past 6 years. He began as the State Fishery Liaison, representing the Federal Subsistence Program in dealings with the State of Alaska Board of Fish. For the last 2 ½ years, Mr. Probasco has served as the Program?s Deputy Assistant Regional Director, and has been the Acting Assistant Regional Director for the 6 months following Tom Boyd?s retirement. ?Pete brings an experience-based understanding of Alaska?s fish and wildlife resources to his new position,? said Tom Melius, the Service?s Alaska Regional Director. ?He has an enviable knowledge of the requirements of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, and a real understanding of the importance of a subsistence lifestyle to rural Alaska residents.?
Photos of Mr. Probasco are available to media by calling Bruce Woods or Maureen Clark at the numbers shown above.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 95-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses 544 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 63 Fish and Wildlife Management offices and 81 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Assistance program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
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