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10051 5th Street N., Suite 105 St. Petersburg, FL 33702 USA Tel: (727) 563-9070 Fax: (727) 563-0207 Email: [email protected] President: Andrew A. Rosenberg, Ph.D. 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 10051 5th St. N, Suite 105 St. Petersburg FL 33702 [email protected] Submitted 28 February 2011 Integrated Management of Natural Marine Resources