Hannibal Bolton

Hannibal Bolton is a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and most recently served as Acting Assistant Director for the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program in Washington D.C. He is presently the Assistant Director of the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program. Through administration and oversight of federal grant programs that provide hundreds of millions of funding yearly, this program helps States, insular areas and the District of Columbia to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, their habitats, and the hunting, sport fishing and recreational boating opportunities they provide.

Prior to this new position, he was the Chief, Division of Fish & Wildlife Management and Habitat Restoration within the Services’ National Programs Offices in Arlington, VA, and has served in several technical fisheries positions as staff biologist, assistant project leader, project leader, regional fisheries associate manager in states such as Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Iowa.

He also served as the Deputy Assistant Regional Director for the Fisheries Program in the Great Lakes Big Rivers Region, prior to moving to Washington. In this position he was responsible for policy development and implementation involving fish management conservation activities, as well as tribal and hatchery issues, within the eight state region. His scope of management encompassed seventeen field stations. Presently,