Socio-economics Staff

Dale Squires  Leader
Phone: (858) 546-7113
Fax: (858) 546-5651
E-mail: Dale.Squires@noaa.gov

Chris Steiner
Volunteer
Phone: (858) 546-7103
Fax: (858) 546-5651
E-mail: chris.steiner@noaa.gov

Donna Dealy
Phone: (858) 546-7183
Fax: (858) 546-5651
E-mail: Donna.Dealy@noaa.gov

James Hilger
Economist
Phone: 858-546-7140
Fax: (858) 546-5651
E-mail: james.hilger@noaa.gov

Serves as a Regional Coordinator to the Recreational Fisheries Engagement Initiative.

Current research focused on the southern California Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel (CPFV) recreational fishery includes the estimation of demand for commercial recreational fishing trips by anglers, and the economic documentation of the CPFV fleet.

Areas of research interest include: consumer choice, welfare economics, and marketing within environmental and natural resource economics.

Jeffrey Shrader
Volunteer
Phone: (858) 546-7103
Fax: (858) 546-5651
E-mail: jeffrey.shrader@noaa.gov

Sam Herrick
Economist
Phone: (858) 546-7111
Fax: (858) 546-5651
E-mail: Sam.Herrick@noaa.gov

Serves on the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s coastal pelagic species management team, its fishery ecosystem plan development team and, NOAA Fisheries’ national Catch share working group.

Areas of research interest include: welfare economics, environmental and natural resource economics, ecological economics and fishery bioeconomics.

Stephen Stohs
Economist
Phone: (858) 546-7084
Fax: (858) 546-5651
E-mail: Stephen.Stohs@noaa.gov

Serves as chairman and economist on the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s highly migratory species management team.

Areas of research interest include: probability models of rare event protected species bycatch, economic impacts of protected species bycatch regulation, environmental and natural resource economics.