[6] Suzumoto Named To Run NMFS Hydro Branch

Biologist Bruce Suzumoto has been named to head the NOAA Fisheries Northwest Region's Hydro Division based in Portland, the group responsible for salmon passage and survival issues at major Northwest dams. One of its main tasks is writing biological opinions on hydro operations dealing with ESA-listed fish in the Columbia Basin.

Suzumoto has spent the last six years working as a program analysis and operations manager at the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. Before that, he worked as a biologist for the Public Power Council, and other utility groups.

He spent many years in Alaska working with the Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corporation, where he eventually became chief executive, supervising a staff of 100 that produced 500 million smolts per year. Suzumoto has also worked for Weyerhaeuser, when the company began its Oregon-based sea ranching business and served in the Peace Corps in Chile, helping to develop a fledgling aquaculture industry in that country. Suzumoto received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of California at San Diego in 1973 and a master's degree in fisheries from Oregon State University in 1976. -B. R.

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