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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

Lekelia "Kiki" Jenkins, Ph.D. (American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow)
Contact: ext. 131

  • Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
  • Marine Mammal Action Plan (Support)
  • Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (MSA) Implementation Support
  • Swordfish Petition
  • NMFS Education Committee
  • Bycatch Reduction Engineering Committee
  • Bycatch (Support)
  • Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program (AIDCP) Promotion Project
  • Invasive species
   
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

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

Kimberly Blankenbeker
Contact: ext. 191

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

Nancy Daves
Contact: ext. 118

  • Capacity Building (Overall and Latin America Lead)
  • Caribbean Fisheries
  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
  • Marine Mammal Action Plan (Support)
  • PROFISH (World Bank Global Program on Fisheries)
  • 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
 

Kelly Denit
Contact: Kelly.Denit@noaa.gov

  • Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
  • Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (Support)
  • International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Support
  • South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization

Melanie King ( Knauss Sea Grant Fellow)
Contact: ext.127

  • FAO (Support)
  • International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Support
  • NMFS International Agreements Report
 

Cheri McCarty
Contact: ext. 183

  • United Nations: Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); Fish Stocks Agreement (UNSFA); General Assembly (UNGA); and Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS)
  • Sharks
  • Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
  • Northwest Pacific Ocean Negotiations
  • Bycatch Support
  • Buoy Vandalism on the High Seas

Paul Niemeier
Contact: ext. 189

  • Arctic Fisheries and NOAA Polar Committee Member
  • Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea
  • Employee Workplace and Diversity Committee (EWDC) Representative
  • International Affairs Internet Webmaster
  • 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 on Fisheries
  • U.S.-Taiwan
 

Michael Simpkins, Ph.D.
Contact: Michael.Simpkins@noaa.gov

  • Bycatch (Support)
  • Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act Implementation (Support)
  • Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing Lead
  • International Marine Mammal Action Plan Lead
  • U.S.-European Union
  • Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMO) U.S. Commissioners Meetings

Brad Wiley
Contact: ext. 126

  • Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program (AIDCP) - HQ Role
  • Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) - U.S. Observer
  • Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) - HQ Role
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
  • Tuna-Dolphin Coordinator for NOAA Fisheries Headquarters (HQ Role)
  • U.S.-Canada Pacific Albacore Treaty (HQ Role)
  • U.S.-Mexico
  • U.S.-Spain
  • Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) - HQ Role
   

Trade and Marine Stewardship Division

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

  • International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Compliance Committee Chair
  • International Trade Data System (ITDS) Coordinator
  • Seafood Trade Certification and Documentation
 

Michael Abbey
Contact: ext. 187

  • Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (MSA) Implementation (Support)
  • Pacific/Asia Capacity Building Lead
  • Coral Triangle Initiative
  • South Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP)
  • U.S.-Korea

Laura Cimo
Contact: ext. 190

  • International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT--Support)
  • International Compliance (Action to End Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Reduce Bycatch of Protected Marine Species) Biennial Report to the Congress
  • Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act (MSA) Implementation Lead
  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
 

Elizabethann English
Contact: ext. 198

  • Biodiversity Policy, including Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), and Marine Protected Areas on the High Seas
  • Bycatch Lead, including Bycatch Reduction Agreements Report to the Congress
  • FishWatch (Support)
  • Free Trade Agreements
  • Habitat Impacts of Fishing, including Bottom Fishing (Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems and Deep Sea Corals) and Derelict Fishing Gear
  • North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Trilateral

Mi Ae Kim
Contact: ext. 195

  • Foreign Fishing Permits in the U.S. EEZ
  • Governing International Fishery Agreements (GIFAs)
  • High Seas Fishing Compliance Act Rulemaking and Implementation
  • Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Vessel List Rulemaking
 

Nicole Le Boeuf
Contact: ext. 184

  • Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP)
  • Bycatch (Support)
  • Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
  • International Seabird Conservation (Including Within Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and the Commission on Environmental Cooperation)

Pat Moran
Contact: Pat.Moran@noaa.gov

  • Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Fisheries Working Group
  • Committee on Trade and Investment (CTI), APEC
  • International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC)
  • North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
  • Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
  • U.S.-Canada
  • U.S.-Indonesia
  • U.S.-Vietnam
  • World Ocean Conference Lead
 

Greg Schneider
Contact: ext. 119

  • Aquaculture
  • Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Fisheries Working Group
  • EU Certification Scheme
  • Free Trade Agreements
  • Chairman, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Committee for Fisheries
  • Trade Facilitation
  • 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)

Ryan Wulff
Contact: ext. 196

  • Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling
  • Canadian Seal Hunt and Hunting of Small Cetaceans
  • Capacity Building Project (Evaluation and Support)
  • International Whaling Commission (IWC) Coordinator
  • Marine Mammal Action Plan (Support)
   
 
     
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