Our experience as an independent consultant in global fisheries management and marine policy is well known. NRC has provided valuable input into sustaining commercial, recreational and artisanal fisheries worldwide facing a variety of challenges. Our work has addressed such critical problems as global bycatch and discards in fisheries, sustainability of large scale industrial fisheries, ecosystem based management and a great variety of more specific problems facing fisheries managers and users everywhere. Emphasis on the commercial groundfish and shellfish fisheries of the northeast Pacific Ocean and Alaska salmon fisheries including key aspects of their associated management and policies are prolific in NRC's work. Our principals draw from unique hands on experience and science based knowledge in these fisheries. NRC has developed and maintained over several years comprehensive databases and contacts with fishing industry people as well as other fisheries scientists and managers allowing for NRC's accurate and broadly informed insight into fisheries management issues everywhere.