I
have a wonderful partner, Sharon, and two growing
boys, Chris (8) and Jon (4). We live with two neurotic cats in a large
old house in Ballard.
We are active in the Woodland
Park Soccer program and Calvary
Lutheran Church.
I
was born and raised in the Puget Sound area, only leaving substantially
to do undergraduate work at McGill University in Montreal. I have worked
as a fishery biologist for the International Pacific Halibut Commission
since 1985, when I was rescued from an intensive job in Anchorage with
a joint ventrure firm. Previously to that I have been employed as a deckhand
on the Virginia V, crew on an Alaskan halibut boat (albeit a small snap
boat, but we still put in a good showing), and various fishery research
positions, the longest running being about seven years working for the
RACE division of NMFS/NOAA in Seattle.
I
have a wonderful partner, Sharon, and two growing
boys, Chris (8) and Jon (4). We live with two neurotic cats in a large
old house in Ballard.
We are active in the Woodland
Park Soccer program and Calvary
Lutheran Church.
My work at the IPHC revolves around our current field schedule, whatever that might be at the time. Right now it is a massive survey effort fishing longline gear from British Columbia to Dutch Harbor (basically the entire northern Gulf of Alaska coastline). Interesting projects I have worked on, and closer to my primary interests, have been studies on the hooking behaviour of halibut (using underwater cameras) and on the interactions between gear strength, hook removal methods, and halibut injury. This latter might better be described as "general longline bycatch mortality" studies.
