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The Susquehanna River Basin Commission presents the
2002 Maurice K. Goddard Award
to Richard St. Pierre

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St. Pierre at the Safe Harbor fish passage dedication ceremony in May 1997.

Richard St. Pierre

· Is a fishery management biologist for 29 years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the principal conservation agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

· Is the federal program coordinator and chairman of the technical committee and oversees the multi-agency migratory fish restoration effort on the Susquehanna River in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York.

· Chairs the Fish Passage Workgroup of the Chesapeake Bay Program using matching federal funds to reopen more than 1,000 miles of dammed tributary streams to anadromous fish spawning runs in the Chesapeake watershed (115 projects completed through 2001).

· Chairs the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Atlantic Sturgeon Culture and Stocking Committee.

· Chairs the Ecology and Environment Subcommittee of the Sturgeon Specialists Group of the IUCN-The World Conservation Union.

· Is this country's principal negotiator for a fishery exchange program between the United States and China.

· Is a trustee of the Shad Foundation and has received several special achievement awards from the Department of the Interior (including the agency's Meritorious Service Award), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Chesapeake Bay Program, and the American Fisheries Society.

· Was the 2000 recipient of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Conservationist of the Year award.

Maurice K. Goddard biography

The Goddard Award

Leroy M. Young, Jr., 2004 Recipient

Jennifer Fais, 2003 Recipient

Richard St. Pierre, 2002 Recipient

N.G. Kaul, 2001 Recipient

Michael Smith and Michael Sprague, 2000 Recipients

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