August 22, 2016 — VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — G. Warren Elliott of Chambersburg has been elected vice-chairman of the Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council.
The council is responsible for the management of marine fisheries in the United States waters from three to 200 miles offshore from New York to North Carolina.
Elliott was appointed to the council by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 2010 and is serving his second term.
Elliott chaired the Ecosystem and Ocean Planning Committee for five years, and led the effort to protect deep sea corals across 39,000 square miles, the single largest protected area in the Atlantic Ocean.
“Warren Elliott has quietly established himself as a leader in ocean issues and policy, and I cannot think of anyone better to succeed me,” said outgoing vice-chairman Dr. Lee Anderson of Delaware.
Anderson was an original member of the council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee organized in 1978. He is a professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy at the University of Delaware.
The 25-member fishery council develops fishery management plans and measures – such as quotas, seasons and closed areas – for 13 species of fish and shellfish, including bluefish, summer flounder, black sea bass, surfclams, ocean quahogs and monkfish.