Fishery manager Dr. Jonathan Jed Brown has been selected as the Delaware River Fisheries Coordinator, according to Dr. Jaime Geiger, assistant regional director for fisheries for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Northeast Region. Brown will coordinate efforts to restore and manage fish populations in the Delaware River Basin and the surrounding area. He will be
based at the Services Delaware Bay Estuary Project Office at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Smyrna.
Brown worked most recently developing natural resource restoration plans for coastal and riparian riparian
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Learn more about riparian habitats along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts for the National Marine Fisheries Service. He has an extensive background in fisheries management, habitat restoration and sustainable aquaculture, Geiger said. Prior to working for NMFS, Brown worked at the Environmental Protection Agencys Environmental Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona on the
development of sustainable aquaculture systems. He also worked on striped bass while a graduate student at the Marine Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Brown has a bachelors degree in biology from the University of California - Davis, a masters degree in marine environmental science from State University of New York - Stony Brook, and a doctorate in wildlife and fisheries science from the University of Arizona at Tucson. He is a former Sea Grant Fellow and a Marine Policy Fellow. He also served as a legislative assistant to Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. on the former Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee. While working on Capitol Hill, he drafted legislation and policy on marine environmental issues and worked with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council on management issues for anadromous fish such as striped bass and sturgeon, and marine fish such as summer flounder and baitfish.
Brown is a native of the Bronx, New York.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 93-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses more than 530 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 66 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resource offices and 78 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Aid program that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
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