NMFS’ Furuness Honored with Distinguished Service Award
Federal fisheries managers have honored Mary Furuness, a supervisory fish management specialist with the agency’s Alaska regional office, with the Bob Mace Distinguished Service Award for her years of work moving in-season management forward to the electronic system used today.
During its April meeting, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council cited her day-to-day management of some of the most complex and controversial fishery management programs in Alaska over the past 33 years, including community development quota, rockfish, Amendment 80 programs and salmon bycatch management.
The award, which is only occasionally bestowed by the council, is named for Bob Mace, who represented the state of Oregon on the council for 23 years.
Since 2009, when she became chief of the Inseason Ma...