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Leah Sheppard, NMFS fisheries observer

Leah Sheppard, a fisheries observer who works for Techsea, a firm contracted by the National Marine Fisheries Service to monitor compliance with federal and international fisheries regulations is photographed aboard the Seattle Enterprise, a factory troller owned by Trident Seafoods. By-catch and sustainability are important issues to the North Pacific Pollack industry and the agencies which regulate it.