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Notification of Confirmed Peer Reviewers
Southeast US North Atlantic swordfish fishery
MRAG Americas confirms the peer reviewers for the Southeast US North Atlantic swordfish fishery as
Dr. John Musick and Dr. Michael Sissenwine. Peer reviewers must be considered, at a minimum, the
peers of the experts comprising the assessment team, and have expertise in one or more of the
following: the fishery under assessment, stock assessment issues, relevant ecosystem interactions,
and fishery management.
A brief biography of each reviewer is provided below in alphabetical order.
Dr. John Musick, Ph.D., – Dr. Musick is the Marshall Acuff Professor Emeritus in Marine Science at
the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), College of William and Mary, where he has served on
the faculty since 1967. He earned his B.A. in Biology from Rutgers University in 1962 and his M.A.
and Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University in 1964 and 1969, respectively. While at VIMS he has
successfully mentored 37 masters and 49 Ph.D. students. Dr. Musick has been awarded the Thomas
Ashley Graves Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching from the College of William and Mary, the
Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the
Excellence in Fisheries Education Award by the American Fisheries Society. In 2008 Dr. Musick was
awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award in Science by the State of Virginia. He has published more
than 150 scientific papers and co-authored or edited 16 books focused on the ecology and
conservation of sharks, marine fisheries management, and sea turtle ecology. In 1985 he was elected
a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received Distinguished
Service Awards from both the American Fisheries Society and the American Elasmobranch Society
(AES), for which he has served as president. In 2009 the AES recognized him as a Distinguished
Fellow. Dr. Musick also has served as president of the Annual Sea Turtle Symposium (now the
International Sea Turtle Society), and as a member of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Marine
Turtle Specialist Group. Dr. Musick served as co-chair of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group for nine
years, and is currently the Vice Chair for Science. Since 1979, Dr Musick has served on numerous
Stock Assessment, and Scientific and Statistics committees for the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission, the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, the National Marine Fisheries Service,
and the Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment Program. He has chaired the ASMFC Shark
Management Technical Committee and ASMFC Summer Flounder Scientific and Statistics
Committee. His consultancies have included analyses of sea turtle/ long-line interactions off the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland for the Bluewater Fishermen’s Association, a major trade organization
representing the US Atlantic swordfish and tuna long-line fishery. Many of Dr Musick’s research
papers over the last decade have been devoted to problems focused on fisheries bycatch of longlived marine animals such as sharks and sea turtles.
Dr. Michael Sissenwine is a Visiting Scholar of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and an
independent marine science consultant with projects worldwide. He chaired (2008-2010) the Advisory
Committee of the International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark),
which advises European governmental bodies on marine ecosystems and human activities that
impact them. He was the President of ICES from 2003-2006. He was the Director of Scientific
Integrated Management of Natural Marine Resources
Programs and Chief Science Advisor for the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service for three years
until June 2005. He was responsible for about 25 Laboratories, research on eight offshore research
vessels and 1,400 staff throughout the USA. His organization’s mission was to provide the scientific
basis for conservation and management of marine living resources and their ecosystems. He also
led from 2002 until mid 2004, eleven NOAA programs, funded at a total of about one billion dollars
annually, that support the Agency’s stewardship mission. From 1996-2002, he served as Director of
the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, comprised of five laboratories and approximately 300 staff.
Previously, Dr. Sissenwine served almost six years as the Senior Scientist of the National Marine
Fisheries Service, overseeing the Agency’s scientific programs throughout the USA.
Dr. Sissenwine has over 30 years of experience as a research scientist and scientific leader,
authoring over 100 scientific reports and publications on a wide range of topics including ecosystem
dynamics, fisheries oceanography, resource assessments and fishery management theory and case
studies. He is also the co-editor of three books. Dr. Sissenwine has convened several international
scientific conferences. He has given testimony to the US Congress and the European Parliament,
participate in radio talk shows and frequently been interviewed by the news media.
In addition to his extensive involvement with the International Council for Exploration of the
Sea, Dr. Sissenwine is a former Scientific Council member for the North Atlantic Fisheries
Organization; a US delegate to the Pacific Science Association (PSA) and former chair of the National
Academy of Sciences’ National Committee for PSA; a former member of the scientific steering
committee for the US Global Ecosystem Dynamics program (GLOBEC) and a former co-director of
GLOBEC; member of the Fishery Resources Commission of the World Humanity Action Trust of the
UK; the former chair of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research of the United Nations Food
and Agricultural Organization (FAO); participant in FAO “Expert Consultations” on Fisheries
Management Techniques, the Precautionary Approach, Indicators of Sustainability, and Ecosystem
Approaches to Fisheries; and past member of several National Research Council Panels and
Committees, including the Ocean Studies Board and the National Academies of Sciences’ Board on
International Scientific Organizations. He served as the chair of the Interagency Working Group of
the National Oceanographic Partnership Program. He served as an advisor to the Pew Foundation
Conservation Fellows Program. He was a member of a Presidential panel on ocean exploration. He
serves on many other advisory and scientific review groups and he has advised on research and
resource management problems worldwide. Throughout Dr. Sissenwine’s career, he has provided
scientific advice to policy makers and managers. He is currently a member of the Scientific and
Statistical Committees of the New England and Caribbean Fishery Management Councils.
Dr. Sissenwine received a Presidential Rank Award, a Silver Metal and a Distinguished Career Award
from the US Government. The American Fisheries Society honored him with both the William Ricker
and the Elton Sette Awards for career excellence. He holds a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the
University of Rhode Island (1975), from whom he also received the 2009 Dean’s List Award for
distinguished alumni.
Dr. Robert Trumble
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Submitted 28 February 2011
Integrated Management of Natural Marine Resources