Lewis Flagg, Deputy Commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, recently received one of six Annual Awards of Excellence bestowed by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission for his contribution to the success of fisheries management.
Flagg, a 40-year veteran fisheries manager, has been “instrumental in promoting and securing Maine’s policy of restoring anadromous fish species throughout their historic range, providing the foundation for successful anadromous fish restoration activities to this day,” said ASFMC.
His award came in the area of Management and Policy. Distinguished by “his engagement of everyone he works with, from new professionals to state and federal agency officials,” Flagg has chaired several Commission fishery management boards, and represented Maine on all but one of ASMFC’s boards. He has also been a long-serving member of the Commission1s Management and Science Committee, and represented Maine on the New England Fishery Management Council for the last five years.
Awards were announced by ASMFC Chair Preston P. Pate, Jr. of North Carolina at the panel’s spring meeting in Alexandria, VA, May 11.
ASFMC manages several species along the Atlantic coast for the federal government, including lobster.