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Division:
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REUT
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Status:
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Federal, NOAA Fisheries
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Job Title:
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Hatchery Technology Team Leader
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Phone:
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206-842-5434, ext. 8313
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Email:
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send e-mail
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Programs:
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Teams:
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NWFSC Publications
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Background
Des is the Hatchery Technology Team Leader in the REUT Division's Salmon Enhancement Program. He began working at the Center in 1976 and has conducted research in a variety of areas, including the effects of petroleum hydrocarbon exposure on the migratory behavior and sensory physiology of Pacific salmon and status signaling and social behavior in juvenile coho salmon. From 1987-1988, Des was a teaching assistant and lecturer at the University of Washington, as well as an instructor at Grays Harbor College.
In 1988, Des returned to the Center where he evaluated the effects of tags and PIT-tag interrogation systems on salmon behavior and survival and began developing and evaluating the Natural Rearing Enhancement System (NATURES) for producing wildlike salmon with high postrelease survival from mitigation, enhancement, and conservation hatcheries. Des has served on many interagency work groups and several biological review teams, and has provided scientific advice on many federal, state, and tribal projects. Des received his B.S. in Marine Biology from the University of Massachusetts and his M.S. and Ph. D. from the University of Washington.
Current Research
Des is the Project Leader on the Redfish Lake sockeye salmon captive broodstock project and Snake River chinook salmon captive broodstock project and is a Principal Investigator on various NATURES projects. His responsibilities include overseeing captive broodstock culture, developing captive broodstock and NATURES rearing protocols, and evaluating the effect of these protocols on salmon behavior, morphology, growth, and survival.
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