Director
Rebecca Lent, Ph.D.
Contact: ext. 182
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Deputy Director
Jean-Pierre Plé, Ph.D.
Contact: ext. 116
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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
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Michele Alford
Contact: ext. 193 |
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Sandy Drucker
Contact: ext. 135
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Jennifer Olson
Contact: ext. 194
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International Fisheries Affairs Division
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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
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Kimberly Blankenbeker
Contact: ext. 191
- International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Lead
- North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Trade and Marine Stewardship Division
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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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