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8/13/2019 FDI 2014 Keynote Robbins

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Richard B. Robins, Jr.

(Chairman Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council)

Rick Robins was appointed to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council in August 2007 and has

served as Chairman since 2008. In 2011, he initiated the Visioning and Strategic Planning Project,

which culminated in the Council's approval of its first-ever strategic plan in August 2013. Robins also

currently serves as the Chairman of the Council Coordination Committee (CCC), which consists of

leadership from each of the eight regional fishery management councils. He was as an Associate

Member of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission from 2004-2013 and served as chair of the

Commissions Blue Crab Management Advisory Committee from 2004-2013.

Robins owns a whelk processing business, Bernies Conchs, L.L.C., on Virginias eastern shore, andexports seafood in conjunction with Chesapeake Bay Packing in Newport News, Virginia. He

processed seafood in Kodiak, Alaska in the early 1990s before moving to Virginia and developing

export-based fisheries.

Robins received an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in

economics and history from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is an avid

recreational angler.