Dave Fluharty, Associate Professor
School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington

Dave Fluharty has an interdisciplinary background in marine resource management and planning. He has been involved in the study and evaluation of living marine resource protection and management in the North Pacific, Northeast Asia and West Africa since 1976. Professor Fluharty’s recent research projects at the University of Washington have concerned economic assessment of critical habitat designation and recovery planning for salmon on the West Coast. He served nine years as a voting member of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council that manages the fisheries in federal waters off Alaska. In addition, he chaired the National Marine Fishery Service’s Ecosystem Principles Advisory Panel, which generated a report to Congress on ecosystem-based fishery management.