John Watson

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA

Currently the Leader of the NOAA Fisheries Southeast Fisheries Science Centre’s Harvesting Systems and Engineering Branch. Watson has been at NOAA and its predecessor agency since 1969 and during that time has conducted extensive research on fishing and fisheries sampling gear.

Mr. Watson has designed and supervised cooperative industry projects to develop selective harvesting systems and conservation technologies including turtle excluder devices for U.S. and international shrimp fisheries, bycatch reduction devices for shrimp trawls, selective harvesting seines for the aquaculture industry, bycatch mitigation technology for the pelagic longline fishery and improved resource survey technologies.

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