Tj Tate Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, TN, US

Chattanooga, TN

Utilizing science, conservation, restoration and stewardship for a healthy blue planet. It's all hands on deck for our Ocean and the growth of a strong Blue Economy.

La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Franklin, KY

Coordinated, planned, and executed five events for Fish 2.0, an aquaculture investment forum, that brought together VC investors and aquaculture-related businesses from 10 countries resulting in series A funding and a new global network of innovators Conducted business development, strategic planning, grant writing, research peer review, and sponsorship.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Sustainability of our planet comes in all forms and all levels. To protect our Ocean, we must work with people. To preserve our land, we must work with people. People have the power to bring about change on multiple levels but it takes a certain amount of education to establish the incubation of new ideas and adoption of policies, stakeholders and.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Design, implement and manage 1st of its kind Aquaculture Awareness Campaign called Seafood Smart. The program strategically partnered directly with those people that talk to consumers and customers such as retailers..
• Developed and implemented a seafood education program, Seafood Smart, at one of the nation's top aquariums resulting in a national aquaculture education program that reached two million people nationwide
• Managed a team who created the program from ground zero, creating training materials and coordinated multi-stakeholder conferences/meetings that grew to support and implement the program; fundraised for the program.
• Outreach efforts included conferences, store promotions, speaking engagements, in-person and on-line training of Aquarium and retail staff
• Developed partnerships with PBS Television, Wegmans Retail, NOAA, White House Aquaculture Advisory Committee, Cermaq Canada, Seafood Nutrition Partnership and the Conservation Alliance for Sustainable Seafood

Gulf Of Mexico

As Executive Director of the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders’ Alliance, I got the opportunity to not only work with the most forward thinking fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico but shape the future of our fisheries. We moved the bar with red snapper and grouper pre-assements generating boots on the deck change in our industry. By development of and.

Saint Augustine

Oversaw the development of management plans for wetland mitigation, NEPA, endangered species and Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Species includes Bald Eagle, Gopher Tortoise, Sea Turtles, and West Indian Manatee.Managed a staff of 14 scientists, two office staff and contractors for quarterly reviews, human resource needs. Established internal.

Pursued Ms, Marine Science

Bs, Communications And Journalism