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Office of International Affairs (F/IA)
National Marine Fisheries Service
1315 East-West Highway, Room 12659
Silver Spring , Maryland 20910
Phone: (301) 713-9090 or 2276
Fax: (301) 713-9106 or 2313

Director
Rebecca Lent, Ph.D.
Contact: ext. 182


  Deputy Director
Jean-Pierre Plé, Ph.D.
Contact: ext. 116
Administrative Staff    
Michele Alford
Contact: ext. 193
  Sandy Drucker
Contact: ext. 135

Jennifer Olson
Contact: ext. 194

   

International Fisheries Affairs Division

Chief - Dean Swanson, Ph.D.
Contact: ext. 192

  • Port State Controls Agreement
  • U.S. Federal Commissioner to the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
  • United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Coordinator
 

Kimberly Blankenbeker
Contact: ext. 191

  • International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Lead
  • North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO)
  • Virgin Islands-British Virgin Islands

Nancy Daves
Contact: ext. 118

  • Capacity Building
  • Caribbean Fisheries
  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
  • Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife in the Wider Caribbean to the Cartegena Convention (SPAW)
  • Queen Conch
  • South Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP)
  • U.S.-Chile
  • U.S.-Colombia
  • Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC)
  • White Water to Blue Water Initiative
 

Paul Niemeier
Contact: ext. 189

  • Arctic Fisheries
  • Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea
  • Large-scale High Seas Driftnet Fishing
  • North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC)
  • Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC)
  • Southern Indian Ocean Fishing Agreement
  • U.S.-Canada Agreement on Pacific Hake/Whiting
  • U.S.-China
  • U.S.-Japan
  • U.S.-Norway
  • U.S.-Russia Intergovernmental Consultative Committee of Fisheries
  • U.S.-Taiwan
  • Office Internet Webmaster
  • Information Technology Coordinator

Kelly Denit
Contact: ext. 202

  • Coordinator for Tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
  • Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
  • International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
  • South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization

 

Mark Wildman
Contact: ext. 189

  • Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
  • Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
  • International Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) Responsibilities
  • Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)

Brad Wiley
Contact: ext. 126

  • Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program (AIDCP)
  • Convention on Migratory Species (CMS/Bonn Convention)
  • Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
  • Tuna-Dolphin Coordinator for NOAA Fisheries Headquarters
  • U.S.-Canada Pacific Albacore Treaty
  • U.S.-Mexico
 

Ryan Wulff (Knauss Sea Grant Fellow)
Contact: ext. 196

  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
  • Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top Predators (CLIOTOP)
  • International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)


Trade and Marine Stewardship Division

Chief - Christopher Rogers, Ph.D.
Contact: ext. 117

  • International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Compliance
  • International Trade Data System (ITDS) Coordinator
  • Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act Oversight
  • Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)
  • Seafood Trade Certification and Documentation
 

Bob Dickinson
Contact: ext. 197

  • Foreign Fishing Permits in the U.S. EEZ
  • Governing International Fishery Agreements (GIFAs)
  • High Seas Fishing Compliance Act and High Seas Fishing Permits

Elizabethann English (Consultant)
Contact: ext. 198

  • Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)
  • Derelict Fishing Gear
  • Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries Management
  • Free Trade Agreements
  • North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Trilateral
  • North Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization
  • United Nations (UN) and the UN Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA)
 

Nicole Le Boeuf
Contact: ext. 184

  • Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP)
  • Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
  • International Seabird Conservation (Including within Regional Fisheries Management Organizations, Commission on Environmental Cooperation, and Other Relevant Instruments)
  • International Whaling Commission (IWC) Back Up
  • National Marine Fisheries Service Training Council Representative

Greg Schneider
Contact: ext. 119

  • Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Fisheries Working Group
  • Free Trade Agreements
  • Chairman, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Committee for Fisheries
  • United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Fisheries and the FAO Subcommittee on Fisheries Trade
  • U.S.-Japan Trade Negotiations
  • World Trade Organization (Including Trade Monitoring and Compliance, Market Access, and Negotiating Improved Rules for Fisheries Subsidies)


 

Pat Moran
Contact: ext. 195

  • Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Fisheries Working Group
  • International Bycatch Reduction Task Force Coordinator
  • International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC)
  • Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act Bycatch Lead
  • Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
  • United Nations (UN) and UN Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) Lead
  • U.S.-Canada
  • U.S.-Iceland
  • U.S.-Vietnam
  • NOAA Fisheries International Affairs Intranet Coordinator

Cheri McCarty
Contact: ext. 183

  • Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling
  • International Whaling Commission (IWC) Coordinator

 

 


 
     
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