Chief, Endangered Species Division
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
Silver Spring, MD
Angela Somma has been the Chief of the Endangered Species Division, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service since 2005. As Division Chief, she oversees national programs and policies to implement the Endangered Species Act for marine and anadromous species. Those programs include recovery of threatened and endangered species, placing species on the threatened and endangered species list, designating experimental populations, critical habitat designations, protective regulations for threatened species, and cooperative programs with States.
Ms. Somma joined the National Marine Fisheries Service in 1992 as an international affairs specialist, coordinating the agency’s international sea turtle recovery programs, and representing the United States in international organizations such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Pacific Salmon Commission, and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on Fisheries.
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