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RI Department of Environmental Management
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For Release: October 14, 2003
Contact: Gail Mastrati 222-4700 ext. 2402
Stephanie Powell 222-4700 ext. 4418

DEM ASSISTANT DIRECTOR BORDEN NAMED CHAIRMAN OF NEW ENGLAND FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL

PROVIDENCE -- David Borden, assistant director of natural resources at the Department of Environmental Management, has been elected chairman of the New England Fishery Management Council. Borden has served the Council as the principal fisheries representative from Rhode Island since 1985, and was previously Council chairman from 1986 to 1988.

Throughout his years of service to the Council, Borden has been actively involved in managing highly migratory species and has chaired several Council committees including those focusing on groundfish, scallop, whiting and herring. He also has been a long-standing member of the Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization committee. As Chairman of the Council's U.S./Canada committee, he led efforts to coordinate the management of transboundary stocks such as cod, haddock and yellowtail flounder with the Council's Canadian counterparts.

A resident of Little Compton, Borden began his career with DEM in 1973 as a marine fisheries biologist in the Division of Fish & Wildlife, where he designed and implemented a computerized catch reporting program for lobsters. He was then named principal marine fishery biologist and administered the mandates of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. In 1987, he was promoted to deputy chief of marine fisheries at DEM, followed by a four-year term as the chief of the Division of Fish & Wildlife. He has served as an assistant director of the Department since 1994.

Borden also served as chairman and vice chairman of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission from 1996 to 2000, where he played a key role in developing the commission's first, five-year strategic plan, and implemented numerous fishery management plans for species such as striped bass, bluefish, summer flounder and scup.

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