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Seth Atkinson, Staff Attorney, San Francisco
I recently joined NRDC as a staff attorney in the oceans program, where I work primarily on promoting sustainable marine fisheries. My love for the oceans started early; growing up in Santa Cruz, California, I spent many an afternoon at the beach skimboarding, bodysurfing, and wandering through tide pools. (Occasionally this was in lieu of class, though don’t tell my high school teachers.) I headed east at age eighteen, earning a bachelor’s degree in geology at Amherst College, and after several intervening years, master’s and law degrees at Yale. After graduating I clerked for a U.S. District Court judge in Vermont, where I enjoyed cycling on endless country roads and training at the local circus arts school. I then dove into fisheries advocacy full-time, spending a year in Washington D.C. before joining NRDC’s San Francisco office. I’m thrilled to be back on the West Coast and doing fisheries work, which I find to be a fascinating combination of policy, science and law.
Recent Posts
Posted December 6, 2011 by Seth Atkinson in Reviving the World's Oceans, U.S. Law and Policy
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- fisheries, fisheriesmanagement, natureconservancy, newyorktimes, NMFS, partnership
Last week, the New York Times published an article profiling a successful partnership between fishermen and The Nature Conservancy in Morro Bay, California. In this partnership, The Nature Conservancy bought up multiple fishing boats and permits, and has worked with...continued→
Posted July 18, 2011 by Seth Atkinson in Reviving the World's Oceans, U.S. Law and Policy
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- fisheries, fisheriesmanagement, NMFS, NOAA, overfished, overfishing, statusofstocks
Last week the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released its annual “Status of Stocks” report to Congress, summarizing the health of our nation’s marine fisheries in 2010. This year’s report is broadly similar to last year’s report, as many stocks...continued→
