Mike Luisi

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Designated Official, State of Maryland

Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Fishing and Boating Services, Monitoring and Assessment Division

Michael Luisi graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg Virginia in 1997.  His career in fisheries began at the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries while working as a technician on the Statewide Stream Survey Project.  After a little more than a year, he entered the graduate program at Tennessee Technological University and earned a Master of Science degree in 2000 while studying the growth and survival characteristics brown and rainbow trout.  Mike went to work with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) in the summer of 2000 and is currently still with the Department.  He has experienced a wide variety of positions within MDNR, including the management of the State's Commercial Striped Bass Fishery and Manager of the Coastal Fisheries Program.  Currently, Mike serves as the director of monitoring and assessment with the MDNR’s fishing and boating services. He was appointed to the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council as Maryland’s State Official Designee in June 2010 and was elected as Council Chairman in 2016.  Mike resides in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife Sarah and children Elizabeth and Andrew.  

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Richard Wong

Designated Official, State of Delaware

Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation
Division of Fish & Wildlife

Mr. Richard Wong is the designated State official for the Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife to the Council. He serves as designee to Mr. Pat Emory, Director of the Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife.

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Chris Batsavage

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Designated Official, State of North Carolina

North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Marine Fisheries

Chris Batsavage serves as the Special Assistant for Councils for the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF) and has served as North Carolina’s Designated Official on the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council since 2012.  He also serves as the North Carolina’s Administrative Proxy on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.  Chris began his career at NCDMF in 1998 as a Fisheries Technician at the Wanchese, NC Field Office.  As a Fisheries Biologist, he was the lead biologist for southern flounder, and he represented NCDMF on the ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass, and the Spiny Dogfish technical committees as well as the MAFMC monitoring committees for these species. 

He received his B.S. in Forestry and Wildlife from Virginia Tech, and his M.S. in Biology from East Carolina University.  Chris grew up in Leesburg, VA before attending college.  He lives in Morehead City, NC with his wife, Tina, and son, Sheldon. 

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