Dr. Rebecca Lent is the Director of the Office of International Affairs in the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Fisheries Service) in Silver Spring, MD. The Office oversees the conservation and management of shared stocks of fish and protected species, including multilateral marine management organizations such as the International Whaling Commission and the three global Tunas Commissions in which the United States is a member. More recently her Office has been tapped to implement the international provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act (2006) which includes capacity building and technology transfer to developing countries. Dr. Lent is a tremendous supporter of providing observer training and workshops with our partners in securing better fisheries management and enforcement. Her office has jointly conducted fisheries observer training with the Ministry of Fisheries-Ghana and has scheduled observer training in Senegal for February 2009. Future fisheries management and observer training sessions are planned for 2010 and beyond.
Dr. Lent received a Ph.D. in Resource Economics at Oregon State University in 1984. Following a year of Post-Doctoral research in France, she was a professor at Université Laval in Quebec City for eight years. Dr. Lent joined NOAA Fisheries Service in October 1992, working as an Economist and then Division Chief for Atlantic Highly Migratory Species. She served as the Regional Administrator for the Southwest Regional Office in Long Beach for a year, overseeing marine stewardship in California as well as Hawaii and the Pacific Territories. In this position, she served as the U.S. government Commissioner for the Pacific Tunas Commission.
After serving for four years as the Deputy for Regulatory Programs at NOAA Fisheries Headquarters in Silver Spring, Dr. Lent took up her present position. She was recently named U.S. Commissioner to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, as well as Chair of the Biodiversity Conservation Working Group of the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation.
Dr. Rebecca Lent is the Director of the Office of International Affairs in the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Fisheries Service) in Silver Spring, MD. The Office oversees the conservation and management of shared stocks of fish and protected species, including multilateral marine management organizations such as the International Whaling Commission and the three global Tunas Commissions in which the United States is a member. More recently her Office has been tapped to implement the international provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act (2006) which includes capacity building and technology transfer to developing countries. Dr. Lent is a tremendous supporter of providing observer training and workshops with our partners in securing better fisheries management and enforcement. Her office has jointly conducted fisheries observer training with the Ministry of Fisheries-Ghana and has scheduled observer training in Senegal for February 2009. Future fisheries management and observer training sessions are planned for 2010 and beyond.