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Michael L. Dahlberg, a vital member of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Auke Bay Laboratory since 1971, has been named director of the Juneau, Alaska, facility, effective March 3. The announcement was made today by William Aron, director of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.
Since 1988, Dahlberg has managed the Auke Bay Laboratory's Marine Fisheries Assessment Program, which, in conjunction with other components of the AFSC, assesses groundfish resources in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea for resource management. Program staff also investigate the ecology and population dynamics of Pacific salmon in the offshore waters of the north Pacific Ocean.
Before coming to the Auke Bay Laboratory, Dahlberg was acting director at the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife's Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island. There he managed the marine gamefish statistics program, and designed a system of measuring quantities of fish caught by sport fishermen in U.S. Atlantic coastal waters.
Dahlberg is widely recognized for his contributions to high- seas fisheries research and international negotiations. He serves as a U.S. scientific expert on the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission and served in that capacity for the prior International North Pacific Fisheries Commission. His scientific advice was critical to the State Department in renegotiating the INPFC Treaty in 1978 and the Treaty Annex in 1986. Dahlberg was also the State Department's lead scientific advisor in negotiations with Japan, Taiwan and Republic of Korea regarding monitoring agreements leading to the High Seas Driftnet Monitoring and Control Act of 1987.
After designing the sampling program and protocol used by international scientific observers to monitor large-scale high- seas driftnet fisheries from 1989 to 1991, Dahlberg worked with scientists from the United States, Canada, Japan, Taiwan and Republic of Korea to train and supervise the largest multinational fishery observer program in history. Information from this observer program led to the U.S.-sponsored United Nations worldwide moratorium on large-scale driftnet fishing.
Dahlberg received his doctorate in fisheries from the University of Washington in 1968, and his masterþs and bachelorþs degrees in fisheries from Oregon State University. He is the recipient of several scientific awards and honors, including the Department of Commerce Certificate of Recognition in 1990, the Alaska Fisheries Distinguished Service Award in 1990, a State of Alaska Commendation in 1989, and a shared Department of Commerce group Silver Medal in 1993. Dahlberg is the author or coauthor of more than 125 scientific papers and reports.