Dr. Roy E. Crabtree has served as the regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Region since January 2003. Previously, he has served as a senior research scientist at the Florida Marine Research Institute.

His managerial experience includes operating his own fishing guide business in the Florida Keys and Everglades National Park, serve as a fishery management specialist with NOAA Fisheries Service' Southeast Region and, most recently, as the director of the Division of Marine Fisheries with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Spanning more than 15 years of state and Federal Government service, Dr. Crabtree has garnered a broad spectrum of experiences as a natural resource manager, resulting in authoring or coauthoring 36 scientific publications and six selected unpublished assessments, as well as providing input on numerous fisheries management plans for the Gulf of Mexico, (1) South Atlantic, and Caribbean. A native of Chapel Hill, N.C., he earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Furman University in 1976, his master's degree in marine science from the University of South Carolina in 1978, and his doctorate in marine science from the College of William and Mary in 1984.

Frederick C. Sutter III, serves as Deputy Regional Administrator for Operations at NOAA Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office. As the Deputy for NOAA Fisheries Service, SE Region he serves as the Chief Operating Officer responsible for the day-to-day management (through subordinate units): Collects, documents, and interprets scientific and economic data as technical support for management plans, international negotiations, fishery trade and industry services. Conducts regional programs in fishery management activities, regarding fishery management plans, fishery trade and industry services, recreational fisheries, and other service areas throughout the range of fisheries programs. Provides support to the Regional Fishery Management Council(s) within geographic area of responsibility. Provides technical review and monitoring of fisheries plans and grant programs. Interacts directly with federal, state and local officials, and with private citizens seeking to perform work in coastal waters and wetlands of the southeast region. Provides biological recommendations for (sequentially) avoiding, minimizing and offsetting adverse impacts to marine habitat, through services involving field inspections, meetings, public hearings and document reviews. Provides advice and guidance for the conservation and protection of those marine mammals and endangered and threatened species under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce, and matters regarding the restoration of living marine resources and their habitat.