CWMTF Staff Bio: Damon Tatem

Title: North Coastal Plain Field Representative

1997- Present Coastal Field Representative of the Clean Water
Management Trust Fund

1971- 1998 Owner/Operator of a full service retail and wholesale
fishing tackle and bait business in Nags Head, N.C.

1973- Present Coastal fishing columnist and writer for various
coastal Publications-Currently the Virginian Pilot & The
Carolina Coast

1994- 1996 Member Fisheries Moratorium Steering Committee-Chairman
Of the Law Enforcement Subcommittee

1996- Present N. C. Governor’s appointee to the Atlantic States
Marine Fisheries Commission. The Atlantic States
Marine Fisheries Commission regulates fisheries along
the Atlantic Coast from zero to three miles offshore.

1998- Present Chairman of the Governors’ Appointees of the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. There is
one Governor’s Appointee from each East Coast State.

1998- Present Board member Administrative Oversight
Committee of Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission

1998- Present Member Advisory Committee of the Joint Legislative
Committee on Seafood & Aquaculture

1992- Present Co-Chairman of the N. C. Marine Fisheries
Commission Northern District Advisory Panel

1999- Present Member of the NCDMF/Sea Grant Fisheries Resource Grant
Committee

2002- Present Vice-chairman Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Advisory Panel Oversight Committee.

1993- 1997 Worked extensively with DWQ, DCM, and other regulatory
agencies in protecting water quality in the ocean and
area sounds and establishing a water quality monitoring
program during two terms as chairman of the Dare County
Clean Water Committee

Contact: email (252) 441-6672

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