WAYNE A. PALSSON

TITLE:

Fish Biologist 3, Marine Fish and Shellfish Program, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, 600 Capitol Way N., Olympia, WA 98501-1091, U.S.A.

EDUCATION:

A.S., Zoology, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1975.

A.B., Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1977.

M.S., Fisheries Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1984

POSITIONS:

Fish Biologist, Washington Department of Fisheries, January 1985-present

Instructor, Westem Washington University, 1985.

Fish Biologist, University of Washington, 1979, 1981, & 1984.

Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, 1981- 1984.

Fisheries Biologist, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1979-1981.

CURRENT AFFILIATIONS:

American Fisheries Society, Pacific Fisheries Biologists, Westem Society of Naturalists, Gilbert Ichthyological Society, Society for the Protection of Old Fishes

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

Marine Fish Biology, Stock Assessment, Recruitment Processes, Catch Estimation, Creel Survey Design, and Undersea Technology

PUBLICATIONS:

• Palsson, W.A. 1991. Using creel surveys to evaluate angler success in discrete fisheries. American Fisheries Society Symposium 12:139-154.

• PALSSON, W.A. and T.W. Pietsch. 1989. Revision of the acanthopterygian fish family Pegasidae (Order Gasterosteiformes). Indo-Pacific Fishes 18, 38 p.

• PALSSON, W.A. 1984. Egg mortality upon natural and artificial substrata within Washington state spawning grounds of Pacific herring (Clupea harengus vallasi). M.S. Thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 191 p.

• PALSSON, W. A., G. Lippert, and R. Goff. 1991. The recreational dive charter fishery in the San Juan Islands, 1979-1985. Wash. Dept. Fisheries Tech. Rep. No. 116, 74 p.

• Lippert, G., W.A. PALSSON, S.G. Hulsman, and S. Hoffmann. 1991. The Puget Sound charter fishery for bottoMfish, 1986 and 1987. Wash. Dept. Fisheries Tech. Rep. No. 114, 72 p.