Perspective Talks - Ms. Sally McGee | Gulf of Maine Symposium St. Andrews NB 2009

Gulf of Maine Symposium

Ms. Sally McGee

Sally McGee works for Environmental Defense Fund as the Policy Director for the Oceans Program in New England. She is based in Mystic, Connecticut and works throughout the region, building coalitions with industry, natural resource agencies, and other non-governmental organizations in support of sustainable fisheries using incentive-based approaches to management. She is also a member of the New England Fishery Management Council. She has served on the Council's executive committee and as chair of its habitat committee shepherding development of new essential fish habitat designations for all federally managed species in the region. She currently chair's the NEFMC sea scallop committee which oversees the most lucrative federal fishery in the region. Prior to joining EDF, Sally worked in the US House of Representatives for the Chairman of the House Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans. She received her Masters in Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island and her B.A. in economics from Smith College. Sally also holds a 100-ton near coastal US Coast Guard merchant mariner's license.

Abstracts / Papers

May 15, 2009
Last date for abstract submission

June 15, 2009
Notification of paper acceptance, announcement of program

July 31, 2009
Final abstract due

October 30, 2009
Last date for manuscript submission for publication

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Organizing Committee Chair - Ms. Lara Cooper
St. Andrews Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
531 Brandy Cove Road, St. Andrews, New Brunswick E5B 2L9
Phone: (506) 529-5951 | Lara.Cooper@dfo-mpo.gc.ca