President Barack Obama needed less time making a nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court than oceans and fisheries administrator Jane Lubchenco has already used mulling which of two candidates she will appoint to head the National Marine Fisheries Service.
But the pivotal choice has emerged between Arne Fuglvog, 45, an Alaskan fisherman, businessman and former appointed fisheries council member turned senatorial aide, and Brian Rothschild, an academic at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Rothschild, 73, once taught James Balsiger, the outgoing acting NMFS administrator, at the University of Washington, and has been a rallying force for the New England fishing industry that is in the midst of a wrenching reorganization from effort controls to "catch shares."
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