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NOAA Economist to be SMAST Visiting Scholar

wp_john_walden1_newsJohn Walden, an economist with NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) in Woods Hole, has been appointed to the Social Sciences Visiting Scholar position at SMAST. He is replacing Min-Yang Lee, who has returned full-time to his duties in Woods Hole. John has been on staff with the NEFSC since 1987.

For the past 15 years, John’s research has focused on measuring technical efficiency, capacity and productivity in commercial fisheries. During that time he has built an internationally recognized research program in this area. He has developed research collaborations with faculty at a number of universities, as well as with the USDA Economic Research Service and the Environmental Protection Agency.

This summer, John organized fishery sessions at both the North American Productivity Workshop, and the Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference. Additionally, he led the national effort by NMFS to measure capacity in commercial fisheries in response to a request from Congress, and more recently developed productivity metrics which were applied to U.S. catch share fisheries.

John will be co-teaching a class with Prof. Dan Georgianna in the spring semester. He also plans to develop a fully on-line course, offered through SMAST, to be centered on fisheries economics for policy decisions.