This collection features oral histories with NOAA staff who worked with fisheries management and conservation of protected resources.
![Fish swim above a coral reef in the Caribbean. (Image credit: Tom Moore) Fish swim above a coral reef in the Caribbean.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/2022-12/coralreef.png?h=0f8e0fad&itok=XFkFN47X)
Fish swim above a coral reef in the Caribbean. (Image credit: Tom Moore)
![Jeanette Davis, NOAA Fisheries
Tenure at NOAA: 2018-present
(2015-2017, contractor and Knauss Fellow)
Jeanette Davis, NOAA Fisheries
Tenure at NOAA: 2018-present
(2015-2017, contractor and Knauss Fellow)](/sites/default/files/styles/square_width_325/public/legacy/image/2020/Mar/PHOTO-Jeanette%20Davis-03052020-237x237px-square.jpg?itok=nLGJQJe4)
Dr. Jeanette Davis
These days, Dr. Jeanette Davis works more on strategy and reports rather than in a lab for NOAA Fisheries, but she has loved science from an early age. In fact, it influenced her to write a children’s book.
![Steven Wilson, NOAA Fisheries. Tenure at NOAA: 1984-present. (Image credit: NOAA) Steven Wilson, NOAA Fisheries. Tenure at NOAA: 1984-present.](/sites/default/files/styles/square_width_325/public/legacy/image/2020/Jun/PHOTO-Steve-Wilson-NOAA-50th-060120-1120x534-landscape.jpg?itok=RV6wBJXL)
Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson is the director of NOAA’s seafood commerce and certification program. Wilson is credited with contributing to a more robust end-to-end system for inspecting food — standards that are now used worldwide.