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TO BACK UP MY POST LAST NIGHT ABOUT FISH LABELING CONCERN - HERE IS THE CONNECTION TO THE UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE FRAUD. Ocean Associates, Inc Ocean and Fisheries Consultants Home Who We Are What We Do Job Openings Recent Projects What Clients Say Contact Us Employees & Subs Google+ OAI provides professional consulting services to government organizations, the private sector, academia, and UN agencies. OAI experts have carried out ocean and fisheries projects throughout the world. Our experts couple diverse work experiences as scientists and senior managers with exceptional educational backgrounds and contacts throughout the United States and world-wide. Teams of OAI Associates and affiliates can be fielded quickly, anywhere, to do analyses, plans, evaluations, and technical reports on - • Commercial and Recreational fisheries • Fisheries and wildlife conservation • Aquaculture - freshwater and marine • Issues in aquatic ecosystems • Ocean issues, remote sensing, and oceanography • Marine fisheries research and management • Fisheries in developing nations - research, development, and management • Climate change impacts on freshwater and marine systems and fisheries • Planning and evaluation of Environmental Projects • Research vessels and facilities Who We Are The organization of OAI is designed to provide the highest level of expertise to its clients at the fairest cost. This design is a flexible organization that is centered around Dr. Everett, who serves as President and one of the Senior Associates of OAI. To ensure that OAIs organization has the expertise demanded by its clients, Dr. Everett has recruited a select group of Senior Associates that have expertise in each of OAIs business areas. Additional Associates (beyond these) recently have worked at NOAA/NWR in Seattle on industry financial services, at NOAA/SWFSC in La Jolla on over 20 scientific and administrative projects and NOAA HQ on aquaculture animal health and aquaculture modelling, outreach, and NOAA history. The Senior Associates are all available to advise when requested and to work on appropriate Tasks. The specialties of the Senior Associates are as follows (their resumes are available by hyperlink): • Dr. John Everett - Research, Administration and Planning, Ecosystems, Climate Change • Dr. Emory Anderson - Biology, Stock Assessment, and Program Coordination • Mr. Kenneth Cooley - Facilities, Research Vessels and Project Management • Dr. Peter Fricke - Sociologist: societal and oil spill impact analyses, maritime and fisheries policy • Mr. Spencer Garrett - Seafood origin, quality, inspecton, safety, public health; Aquatic animal health. • Dr. Dan Grosse - Coastal ecology, water quality, aquaculture production and local feasibility • Mr. John Hotaling - Facilities, Research Vessels and Project Management • Ms Anne Lange - Recreational Fisheries and State Relations, Stock Assessment, EIA • Dr. R. Michael Laurs - Biology, Biological Oceanography, Research Management • Ms Dorothy Leonard - Estuarine Ecology; Water Quality; Shellfish Culture, Restoration, Public Health • Dr. Douglas Lipton - Economics of Fisheries, Seafood, Non-Market Valuation • Dr. Richard Marasco - Economics, Management Advice, Research Administration • Dr. Jeanne McKnight - Fisheries and Aquaculture Outreach • Dr. James McVey - Aquaculture Research and Development, Research Coordination • Mr. Peter Milone - Fisheries development and management, US & Pacific Islands, business development • Mr. Dallas Miner - Outreach (available in off-duty hours) • Mr. Bruce Morehead - Economics, Aquaculture and Resource Management • Dr. Ziad Shehadeh - Aquaculture (in Memoriam) • Dr. Lamarr Trott - Biology and Zoology, Research Administration (in Memoriam) • Mr. Robert Williams - Facilities: all aspects from Enviro. Compliance to Replacement; Fisheries Policy. John T. Everett. Dr. Everett comes from a fishing family and worked 31 years in 13 positions in the Federal Government as a researcher, analyst and manager in fisheries and ocean programs. He is President of Ocean Associates, Inc. and has been Manager of the UN Atlas of the Oceans (oceansatlas.org) during its development and first decade for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy. The Atlas is CD-ROM and Internet-based, containing information relevant to sustainable development of the oceans and to the advancement of ocean science. He provides consulting services on oceans and fisheries policy and sustainability, global climate change and impacts at the global and local level on fisheries and on oceans, including adaptation strategies. He also owns OceansArt.US and TechnologySite, web based businesses that provide free ocean-related photos and sell high-resolution versions and prints (Dr. Everett is also a professional photographer associated with Marine Photobank.) His Federal positions included: Senate Commerce Committee (Ocean Policy Study) staff, Staff to NOAA Administrator, NOAA Fisheries Dir. of Policy and Planning, Manager of Dolphin/Tuna research, and Chief of Fisheries Development. He has coordinated fishing gear and sampling equipment development. He has chaired or co-chaired several impact analyses (fisheries, Polar Regions, Oceans, and Coastal Zones) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Ecosystem Indicators of Climate Change. As an outgrowth of his recent Congressional testimony on the impacts of climate change on fisheries and oceans he implemented an unbiased website: ClimateChangeFacts.info. Until recently he was Chief of the NOAA Fisheries Division of Research. Prior to NOAA, he coordinated launches in the Apollo Program at Cape Kennedy and was a commercial fisherman in Massachusetts. He recently testified in Congress on the impacts of climate change on fisheries and oceans, on considerations for forage fish management and twice in 2010 on ocean acidification and the Gulf oil spill. He holds a Doctorate and Masters from Florida State University focused on systems analysis, natural resources research and management, and on quantitative methods, and a Bachelors from the Univ. of Massachusetts in Engineering. More information. Emory D. Anderson. Dr. Anderson has over 35 years of university, Federal, and international service in fisheries science and its administration. He is former (1989–1993) General Secretary of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the world’s oldest intergovernmental marine science organization. His career includes a 14-month post-doctoral appointment (1969-1970) in the Institute of Water Research and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University, 81⁄2 years (1985-1993) with ICES, and the remainder with NOAA Fisheries (NMFS). His primary experience and expertise is in fish stock assessments acquired at the NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center (Woods Hole, MA) from 1970 to 1985 and from 1994 to 1998. His service with ICES included Statistician in charge of fishery assessment and statistics matters and General Secretary, chief executive of the 35-person Secretariat located in Copenhagen, Denmark. After returning to NMFS Woods Hole in early 1994, he served as Chairman of the Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop and liaison to the New England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Councils. From 1999-2004, he was with the NMFS Office of Science and Technology in Silver Spring, MD serving as NMFS Liaison to NOAA’s National Sea Grant Program. In the National Sea Grant Office, he was Program Director for Fisheries, responsible for promoting fisheries research within the Sea Grant network, improving collaboration between Sea Grant and NMFS, and managing several competitive research and fellowship programs. Dr. Anderson brings considerable and diverse experience in a wide range of marine science disciplines, but primarily fish stock assessments. He has authored well over 100 published scientific reports and papers, and edited several books and an ICES symposium proceedings. He holds a Doctorate in Fisheries Biology from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelors in Mathematics from Dana College. Kenneth R. Cooley. Mr. Cooley has extensive experience in Contracts Administration and Program and Operations Management in the commercial and government arenas, as both a contractor and a client. He has over 45 years of experience in marine environment projects, constructing, converting and repairing marine structures; constructing and installing deep ocean subsea oilfield equipment; providing marine engineering and technical studies, operating scientific vessels and managing engineering and technical personnel in the office and in the field. He has managed projects overseas and in the United States. He served as Engineering Officer on a Hydrographic Ship mapping the Norwegian Trench and on the research ship deploying the test array for the US Navy SOSUS Sonar System. At Westinghouse he produced the test procedures for the NERVA Nuclear Rocket Engine Test Stand, assisted in the set-up of the Deep Submergence School for the US Navy, then operating the Bathyscaph Trieste, and installed and operated the R & D Launcher for the Poseidon Submarine Ballistic Missile. At National Steel and Shipbuilding, he represented the company on joint contracts and specifications committees; managed projects from RFP through contract close-out; and managed Special Projects, including design, manufacture and testing of a Highly Skewed Propeller for shipboard applications. He was Program Manager for the design, construction and delivery of two offshore oil platform power and quarters modules and managed the Feasibility Study and Business Plan to create a new company operating division and established its operations within existing internal policies and procedures. He was Manager of Cost and Planning for a $176 million subsea oil field project for the Peoples Republic of China involving three engineering firms, three fabricators and one operating firm, in the US, Japan, Singapore and China. The project finished on time and below budget and won the 1997 Offshore Technology Conference Distinguished Achievement Award. He has managed ship construction activities for a US oil firm, including ship designs, fabrication contract negotiations, change orders, and field inspectors. Mr. Cooley has an MS in Business Administration from California State University, San Diego and a BS in Marine Engineering from the California Maritime Academy. Peter H. Fricke. Dr. Fricke has over 50 years experience in maritime industries, natural resources management and international development. He began his career in the British merchant navy, followed by academic and research positions of increasing responsibility at British and U.S. universities and research institutions. He moved to NMFS in 1984 as Sociologist in the Office of Fisheries Management. Here he worked for 26 years at the national level in the areas of fishery development, fishery management, policy research and formulation, and program management. He also served on several Federal fishery task force projects which included the development of regulations to implement Congressional amendments to the Magnuson Stevens Act, an extensive review of the impact of NEPA on NMFS and NOAA programs, and development of training programs related to the MSA. At the NMFS regional level, Dr. Fricke provided social science guidance and research assistance to regional fishery management councils and NMFS regional offices and science centers. Examples of this work include the social impact assessment of North Pacific halibut and sablefish IFQs, numerous workshops on social impact assessment for fishery managers, and service on ad-hoc regional fishery management projects. Prior to joining NMFS, Dr. Fricke also served as a consultant to the Government of Liberia at the United Nations Conference on Law of the Sea (1975-1980), the London Dumping Convention (1977-1979) and the IMCO meetings on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention. During the 1970s, Dr. Fricke also worked as a consultant and trainer for UNCTAD’s developing country ports and harbors management program. He was a member of the British Advisory Committee on Oil Pollution of the Sea, and undertook social impact assessments of the Argo Merchant and Bouchard 65 oil spills for NOAA and the Amoco Cadiz oil spill for the Liberian Maritime Commission. Earlier, he also worked as an apprentice and then navigating officer in the British Merchant Navy from 1956 to 1970. His academic research interests have centered on the study of rural and coastal communities, social impact assessments of the effects of regulatory actions, and natural resource management. Most recently he has been developing and managing a farmland conservation program in Jefferson County, West Virginia. Dr. Fricke holds a BA (Sociology) from New York University, an MPA from The American University, and PhD (Sociology) from the University of Durham. E. Spencer Garrett. Spencer served 48 years in the NOAA NMFS and predecessor agencies. He last served as Director of The National Seafood Inspection Laboratory (NSIL) in Pascagoula. Under his leadership, the NSIL became the premier seafood Public Health Center providing scientific services to the NOAA Fisheries Seafood Inspection Program dealing with seafood safety, commerce, trade issues, and also to other Federal agencies, states, the seafood industry as well as forensics support to Law Enforcement. He has served as a seafood safety and public health consultant to both FAO and WHO and has over 200 presentations, feasibility studies, and/or publications dealing with consumer protection in the consumption of fishery products. At the request of Congress, he led the design of the mandatory Seafood Inspection Program based upon the HACCP system concept. The program development involved more than 1,200 Federal, state, and industry personnel, and pilot tests in over 200 seafood plants and 77 fishing vessels. The program underpins the current FDA HACCP-based seafood regulations and USDAlHACCP meat and poultry regulations in the US and around the world. Spencers executive portfolio also included aquatic animal health issues. He represented NOAA on the Federal Interagency (USDA/APHIS, USDIIFWS and NOAA/NMFS) executive committee to oversee development of a National Aquatic Animal Health Plan for the USA. While the leading US authority on seafood issues, Spencer is also knowledgeable of the entire federal fisheries mission, having led discussions and presented in various fora. Spencer received numerous awards including the NOAA Bronze and Gold Medals, Lifetime Career Achievement Award, the FDA Special Recognition Award for his Codex activities and similar accolades from National and International scientific organizations. Spencer received his BS/MS degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi and is a veteran of the US Coast Guard. Daniel J. Grosse. Dr. Grosse is co-founder and president of TerrAqua. His recent focus has been aquaculture and agriculture development, including helping to commercialize a marine recirculating aquaculture technology that the University of Maryland has developed. As president of TerrAqua Environmental Science and Policy, LLC, he developed aquaculture and land-farming studies and projects for clients ranging from small traditional Native American and maritime communities — including developing an oyster culture project on Smith Island, in the Chesapeake Bay — to a Fortune 500 company. He has worked for NOAA and the U.S. Navy, and has farmed on Israeli agricultural collectives. Currently, he also grows oysters commercially in Chincoteague, VA (Toby Island Bay Oysters, which he founded), and is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland University College Graduate Program in Environmental Management. Dr. Grosse has a B.S. in Natural Resources, University of Michigan, and an M.S. and Ph.D., Fisheries Biology, from the University of Washington. John M. Hotaling. Mr Hotaling is a senior program, acquisition, and mission project manager with over 15 years experience managing complex major ship, aircraft, and infrastructure acquisition projects. He has engineering, technical, supervisory, contract administration, budget formulation and program execution skills. His capabilities and experience are in all aspects of program planning and control, including strategic planning, requirements definition, project acquisition planning, task definition, engineering, budget development, project management, specification preparation, schedule control, cost control, contract performance monitoring, ship design, construction and operation support and supervision. He has an extensive maritime background involving commercial, military and research ships and associated facilities. His leadership and team-building skills include significant interagency coordination focused on major ship modernization and conversion projects to meet unique user needs. He was instrumental in initiating the new NOAA/NMFS fisheries research ship construction program from inception to contract. He is experienced in working in a maritime regulation compliance structure. He holds a USCG engineers license, and has significant sea time conducting vessel tests and trials. Mr. Hotaling has a BS in Marine Engineering from the US Merchant Marine Academy and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Anne M. Lange.Ms. Lange has over 33 years of experience in marine fisheries science, research and management. For over 20 years, she conducted research for the NMFS NEFSC Woods Hole Laboratory, providing scientific advice to Federal, State and international fishery managers on coastal migratory and offshore pelagic stocks. Her research included individual stock assessments and biological, environmental and technological (gear-related) interactions in multi-species fisheries. She has developed and implemented research programs in collaboration with numerous state and foreign fishery agencies and various research institutions. From 1996-2006, she worked closely with the coastal states on numerous joint Federal-State fishery management issues, initially as a State-Federal coordinator and most recently as Chief of the State-Federal Fisheries Division in NMFS’ Office of Sustainable Fisheries. She has authored or co-authored over 70 fisheries papers, reports and journal publications and has experience in preparing environmental assessments and environmental impact statements. Ms. Lange holds a MS in Fisheries Science from University of Washington and a BS in Fisheries from the University of Massachusetts. R. Michael Laurs. Dr. Michael Laurs is a demonstrated leader and recognized scientific expert in fisheries oceanography; satellite remote sensing applications to fisheries and oceanography; large pelagic fish ecology, biology, and fisheries; and fisheries interactions with protected species. He also has broad knowledge and understanding of the U.S. fishery management council process. In addition he has had widespread experience in working with international fisheries and marine scientists in Europe, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Island Nations, Latin America, India, Sri Lanka, and Africa. Dr. Laurs enjoyed a distinguished career of 39 years with the NOAA NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center. For about two-thirds of his career he was a fisheries oceanography scientist primarily leading multidisciplinary programs on tunas and other large pelagic fishes. Dr. Laurs also pioneered the development and application of satellite remote sensing in marine fisheries research and fisheries operations. About one-third of his career he was director of NMFS laboratories in Honolulu, Hawaii and Pacific Grove, California. Dr. Laurs is an internationally recognized expert on albacore tuna and satellite applications to fisheries. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific articles and more than 150 government reports, and has presented scientific findings at more than 200 scientific and related meetings. He has served on numerous scientific advisory committees and review panels for Federal, State, and local agencies; for foreign governments; international organizations; and for academic institutions. Dr. Laurs also served for more than 20 years as the scientific advisor to the American Fishermens Research Foundation and the Western Fishboat Owners Association. He has a Ph.D. in biological oceanography, a M.S. in general science, and B.S. in Fisheries from Oregon State University. He has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hawaii, a Research Assistant at Oregon State, and a Research Fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has also worked as an independent consultant to NOAA NESDIS and the University of Hawaii. Douglas Lipton. Dr. Lipton began his career with the National Marine Fisheries Service where he worked as a biologist and industry economist for nine years. For the past 19 years he has been on the faculty of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland College Park. In addition to this faculty position, Dr. Lipton has been coordinator of the Maryland Sea Grant Extension Program since 1993. Dr. Liptons work focuses on fisheries and marine and coastal resource economics. Consulting activities have included economic analyses on the Alaskan groundfish industry, offshore aquaculture production in Korea and development of economic indicators of coastal ecosystem health. Dr. Lipton has a B.S. in Biology from Stony Brook University, a Masters in Marine Science from the College of William and Mary, and a Ph.D. in resource economics from the University of Maryland. Dorothy L. Leonard. Ms. Leonard provides consulting in shellfish restoration, aquaculture, resource management, land use planning, and habitat suitability and restoration. In 20 years at NOAA, her work included being manager of the Habitat Characterization Cross-Cutting Initiative involving NMFS, NOS, NESDIS and OAR. She integrated molluscan shellfish habitat into Essential Fish Habitat activities; defined habitat contributions and the role of water quality, and mapped anecdotal information on shellfish populations and beds. For 25 years she maintained the National Shellfish Register of Classified Estuarine Waters. She collected information from 23 states: classification and extent of classified shellfish waters, pollution sources, landings, species abundance, aquaculture activities, and shellfish restoration. She coordinated a mapped database of the US shoreline and over 2000 classified shellfish areas, synthesized and analyzed all shellfish information, and drafted and produced numerous reports. She managed the Site Selection process for the National Indicator Study. She performed analyses of large databases of information on shellfish growing areas and field sampling and pollution sources. She assesed trends in coastal resources and causes and effects; and made recommendations on national policies and research priorities. She entered and stored spatial data and used relational databases to analyze trends and cause and effects . As Pres. of Ocean Equities LLC, she helped watermen develop oyster farming and conducted workshops on Smith and Tangier islands. She led a team to design a project to develop an integrated industry, capable of producing, processing and marketing oysters year-round and began a pilot oyster culture project for Smith Island. She is VP for Development, EcoAquaculture, developing biosecure systems for raising shellfish in the Ches. Bay region. She advises Oyster Recovery Partnership and Magothy River Assoc. on habitat and oyster restoration. She works with Va. Polytechnic Institute and State U. and Va. Sea Grant to develop modeling and mapping tools for localities in MD and VA and strategies to control sediment and nitrogen through riparian buffers and oyster farming. She was Director of the Md. Fisheries Service, managing all fisheries; 6 hatcheries, an animal health lab, 6 field offices and the central office. As Director, she also served as Commissioner, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and member, Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council. She developed a Striped Bass Summit and fisheries allocation policy and chaired the Fisheries Mgmt Workgroup of the Ches. Bay Commission. For Southampton, NY, she developed maps of areas suitable for shellfish culture and modified them based on feedback from user groups, and data on navigation and boating activity, submerged aquatic vegetation, and other conflicts. Education: Syracuse U., Maxwell School of Political Science; B.A. Cum Laude and Graduate Coursework at George Washington U. and State U. of New York, Brockport. Richard J. Marasco. In his capacity as Director of the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s, Resource Ecology and Fisheries Mgmt Division (REFM) for nearly 25 years, Dr. Marasco’s built interdisciplinary research programs to generate information necessary for managing the marine fish and shellfish resources off Alaska, earning the Center a reputation as a leader in developing state-of-the-act techniques for building sustainable fisheries. He led development of multispecies management and ecosystem models for the Bering Sea and NE Pacific; led the setting of guidelines for implementing fisheries policy for target species, incidentally taken species, and ecosystem-based management; improved stock assessment techniques for groundfish; oversaw the N. Pacific Groundfish Observer Program including implementation of the domestic observer program for Alaska groundfish fisheries, one of the largest observer programs in the world; established REFMs Food Habits Laboratory (to study predator-prey interactions) and Radiometrics Laboratory (to determine the age of fishes). Dr. Marasco has provided advice and expertise on a broad spectrum of issues. His time spent on the N. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Scientific and Statistical Committee from 1979-1994, as committee vice chairman (1981-87) and chairman (1987-91 and 1998-2004), is praised by the Council Executive Director. “His participation and leadership on the Council’s SSC over those many years, coupled with his support of the Council process through his REFM Directorship, contributed enormously to the conservation and management of the fisheries resources of the North Pacific.” He played a key role in developing collaborative research with foreign nations and international groups. He served as chairman of the Scientific and Technical Committee, Convention for the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea; U.S. Delegate and Member of PICES (N. Pacific Marine Science Org.); and chairman of the PICES Finance and Administration Committee. Dr. Marasco also was the first chairman of the N. Pacific Research Board’s Science Panel. His philosophy of hiring high quality staff and helping them to see key research issues facing management encouraged creativity and ingenuity. His ability to hire individuals with diverse backgrounds created an academic-like setting in a government institution. Such leadership led to the formation of a scientific staff capable of analyzing biological, economic, and social impacts of complex fishery management schemes. Education:He has a B.S. in Applied Statistics And Computer Science and a M.S. in Agricultural Economics-from Utah State University and a PhD. from the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics. Jeanne McKnight. Dr. Jeanne McKnight has extensive experience in international trade issues, regulatory affairs, and food marketing/food safety programs, with a particular emphasis on aquaculture and the global seafood industry. In addition to working successfully with consumers, food distributors, retailers and restaurant operators, she has established relationships with government regulators, including the U.S. Department of Commerce (NOAA - NMFS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration. Jeanne has worked in the food industry since 1980, when she left academia (Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon) to head up the various communications efforts for West Coast and Alaska seafood development and marketing trade associations. She then launched McKnight & Company, a firm that has represented global food and seafood clients. Her work with the Association of Chilean Salmon Farmers (SalmonChile) included introducing fresh Atlantic salmon from Chile to food retailers and restaurants, and—most notably—lobbying on behalf of importers, distributors, and end users of Chilean salmon during an international salmon trade dispute. Since 1990, Jeanne has brought her communications and issues management expertise to bear on domestic and international aquaculture issues. She has led international efforts on seafood and health; trade; and aquaculture feeds. In the summer of 2007, she worked closely with NOAA Aquaculture and Ocean Associates, Inc. to organize the first U.S. Aquaculture Summit: Making it Work for America. Jeanne attended the Univ. of Minnesota, and received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees, cum laude, from the State Univ. of New York at Buffalo. She also did post-graduate work at Stanford University and was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at Columbia University. James P. McVey. Dr. McVey until recently was Aquaculture Program Director at NOAAs National Sea Grant College Program, responsible for reviewing university aquaculture proposals and monitoring Sea Grant activities in Florida, Mississippi/Alabama, Louisiana and New York. He was Program Manager for NOAA’s Oyster Disease Research and the Gulf Oyster Industry Initiative and managed the National Aquaculture Initiative, all competitive programs. He also was Chairman of the Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture of the US/Japan Panel on Natural Resources (Aquaculture), was Chairman of the US/China Living Marine Resources Panel, and was Chairman of the US/Korea Aquaculture Program. He has also provided input to the NAS review panels on aquaculture, the Federal Coordinating Committees on S&T (Aquaculture and Biotechnology), and Small Business Innovative Research review panels for NSF, USDA and other organizations. He served as technical program officer for Department of Commerce SBIR grants in aquaculture. He received The Department of Commerce Bronze (1995) and Silver (2000) Medals for developing the NOAA Aquaculture Program and international leadership in aquaculture development. He worked for two years in Indonesia with U.S. AID, where he established or upgraded four fresh water shrimp hatcheries on Java and brought improved technology for shrimp hatcheries throughout the country. Earlier, Dr. McVey was Aquaculture Division Chief for the NMFS SE Fisheries Center for five years. He helped develop shrimp broodstock nutritional requirements, and techniques for hatcheries, captive spawning of shrimp and fish, and turtle headstarting. For seven years he was the Marine Biologist for the Trust Territory of the Pacific, where he designed and built the Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center (MMDC). The MMDC worked on the culture of giant clams, rabbitfish, algae, oysters, and prawns. He introduced brackishwater pond culture to Micronesia. Dr. McVey received his B.S. degree from the University of Miami and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Hawaii. He has published four major books on aquaculture and has over 50 scientific publications. Peter A. Milone. Mr. Milone has over 30 years experience in fisheries programs and international business management and development. He held several positions of increasing responsibility with NMFS at both the national and regional levels in the areas of fishery development, fishery management, policy research and formulation, and program management. He began his career in NOAA/NMFS with the Office of Utilization and Development where he worked on a national program for fisheries development with responsibilities for project management, regional coordination and liaison, and policy development. Mr. Milone spent 9 years with the NMFS Western Pacific Program Office where he managed Federal fishery development and resource management programs with the State of Hawaii and U.S. related island territories throughout the Western Pacific. He was also served on several Federal fishery task force projects which included an extensive review of the impact of Federal regulatory and trade laws in the Western Pacific and an assessment of fishery development potential in the Marshall Islands on behalf of the U.S. Trade and Development program. Mr. Milone also served as a consultant to USAID on a program to assess Marine Atoll Research needs in the Republic of Kiribati. Earlier, he also worked as a fishing boat captain in the coastal waters of New Jersey. In addition to his fishery career Mr. Milone has extensive executive business experience having started up, owned, grown and sold two successful companies in the sports industry. He led the international marketing efforts to find and develop successful business partners for his companies in Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has excellent analytical, organizational, management and communication skills and is very adept at managing cross functional and cross cultural teams to build strategic partnerships. He holds a MS in international law and economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a Bachelors in history and biology from the University of Vermont. Dallas D. Miner. Mr. Miner iserves as a consultant in natural resource and public relations subject areas during off-duty hours. He has been most recently National Team Leader, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Program. Prior experiences include serving as President of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation and as Vice President, American Sportfishing Association. As a NOAA employee, his roles included Deputy Director, NOAA Office of Legislative and External Affairs, Director of the National Marine and Estuarine Sanctuaries Office, Director, Office of Policy, Program Evaluation and External Relations of the Office of Coastal Zone Management. Prior to NOAA his work included serving as Director of Communications for the Urban Land Institute and Assistant Executive Vice President, Connecticut Conservation Association. Mr. Miner has executive level skills in policy and program direction, financial oversight, staff management and Congressional liaison. He has exceptional contacts in Federal and State natural resource agencies, outdoor industries, academic and research institutions and private sector conservation organizations. From the U. of Wisconsin, he holds a Masters in Environmental Science and a Bachelors in Journalism. Bruce C. Morehead. Mr. Morehead has over 38 years experience in environmental services, working primarily for NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and its predecessor agency. This included two years with the Coastal Plains Regional Commission. He has had a wide variety of positions as an industry economist, trade specialist, policy analyst, and program officer. Beginning in 1980, he held management positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of fishery development, seafood safety, utilization research, fishery disaster relief and fishery management where he served as Deputy and Acting Director for the NMFS Office of Sustainable Fisheries. He has broad experience in policy formulation and program development and management and has been recognized for his achievements with a Department of Commerce Gold Medal, NOAA Administrators Award, the NOAA Distinguished Career Award, and the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administrations Special Citation. He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from American University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Gettysburg College. Since retiring from NMFS in January 2005, he has served as a consultant to the NOAA Aquaculture Program. Ziad H. Shehadeh. Dr. Shehadeh has 30 years of experience in aquaculture research and development, of which 16 years were at the international level through positions with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Center for Living aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) and as an independent consultant (2 years). Main positions held included: Senior Fishery Resources Officer (FAO), Rome, Italy; Executive Secretary, Strategy for International Fisheries Research (SIFR) Project (of the UNDP & World Bank), Ottawa, Canada; Manager, Mariculture & Fisheries Department, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), Kuwait; Director General, ICLARM, Manila, Philippines. The geographic scope includes the Middle East and North Africa, the Mediterranean basin, Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia, some Pacific islands, USA, and Canada. His main interest in applied research has been the controlled reproduction of marine fish, with interest in integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems. The past 20 years have been devoted to the planning and management of research and development programs and institutional capacity building. He is highly skilled in aquaculture research, development planning, and trend analysis; management of regional research networks; and planning and technical backstopping of aquaculture R&D projects in developing countries. He is experienced in the organization of study groups and international symposia and conferences, and in dealing with regional and international organizations. He holds a Doctorate from the U. of California at Los Angeles in zoology, a Masters in Fisheries Biology from the Univ. of Michigan, and a Bachelors in Agriculture from the American University of Beirut. Lamarr B. Trott (in Memoriam). Dr. Trott has extensive experience in fisheries science and its administration in the US and in SE Asia. He recently left NOAA/NMFS and is now consulting on fisheries research. Most recently he served as NMFS Deputy Director of Science and Technology and as Senior Fisheries Advisor for USAID. Prior experiences include Visiting Professor of Zoology at the U. of Hawaii, Chief of the NMFS Fisheries Assessment Division and Director of the Marine Science Laboratory at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is highly skilled in organizing research symposia, collaborative research projects, and reporting and presenting results. He has conducted research in the Bahamas, Galapagos, Florida, Texas, Hawaii, California, Guam, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Costa Rica, Philippines, Hong Kong, Kenya, and Papua New Guinea. He holds a Doctorate from the Univ. of California at Los Angeles in Zoology and from Florida State Univ. a Masters in Zoology and a Bachelors in Biology. Robert J Williams. Mr. Williams has over 37 years of diverse marine fisheries experience, beginning with 4 years with the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC), followed by 12 years at NMFS Headquarters , and for the last 22 years based at the NMFS Regional Office in St. Petersburg, FL. He received numerous recognitions at the NMFS, NOAA and Department of Commerce levels, and the NOAA Career Achievement Award. While with the PSFMC, Bob worked closely with the Western state fisheries agencies in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska. His primary focus was the development of an interstate fishery-dependent catch data system, the forerunner of the regional data systems now in place nationally in support of regional fishery management plans. He also helped develop the first State-Federal Fisheries Management Plan (Dungeness crab), the precurssor to todays management format. Bob began his NMFS career in 1977 in Headquarters where he was part of a national team developing rules and guidelines to implement the newly enacted Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Within two years he was in charge of the State-Federal Fisheries Management Program nationally which established coordinated interstate management of fisheries predominately in state waters. The Atlantic Coast Striped Bass Conservation Act is an outgrowth of this program. Bob is an expert on State, interstate and State-Federal fisheries management relationships. From 1982-1989, Bob worked in a variety of Headquarters positions, from Program Manager, to Senior Policy Analyst with focus on Congressional legislation affecting marine resources, to Special Assistant to the NMFS Director. Special assignments included temporary duty to the Northeast Region to oversee fisheries management, protected species, international fisheries, and State-Federal grant programs. Bob twice worked on major reorganization assignments: national reorganization of NMFS, and consolidation of West Coast regions. Bob has substantive experience across all NMFS programs. In 1990, Bob assumed Headquarters national oversight responsibilities for NMFS facilities. Facilities generally were in poor condition and needed major repairs, if not replacement, to support fisheries research and management. Bob became the NMFS liaison to NOAA and DOC in all facility related matters---major repairs, new construction, environmental compliance, safety, etc. Bob has over 20 years of first hand experience in representing client needs in all aspects facilities mainenance, repairs and construction--from inception to completion. Bob has overseen the planning, programming, budgeting, all phases of design, evaluation of proposals, temporary space, relocation, occupancy, punchlist follow up and warranties for numerous government owned and built-to-suit major construction projects. Bob has worked on several contruction projects seeking LEED certification, including Platinum. Bob was involved in essentially a total national upgrade or replacement of all NMFS field facilities with public investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. Bobs legacy is an agency field infrastructure designed to support fisheries science and management for the next half century. Bob has a BA in Economics (Nasson College 70), a MBA in Marketing (Syracuse University 72), and a MS in Marine Resource Management (Texas A&M University 73). Home | Who We Are | What We Do | Job Openings | What Clients Say | Contact Us | Employees & Subs © 2014 Ocean Associates, Incorporated. Site Meter