Designated Official, State of North Carolina
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Marine Fisheries
Chris Batsavage serves as the Special Assistant for Councils for the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF) and has served as North Carolina’s Designated Official on the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council since 2012. He also serves as the North Carolina’s Administrative Proxy on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Chris began his career at NCDMF in 1998 as a Fisheries Technician at the Wanchese, NC Field Office. As a Fisheries Biologist, he was the lead biologist for southern flounder, and he represented NCDMF on the ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass, and the Spiny Dogfish technical committees as well as the MAFMC monitoring committees for these species.
He received his B.S. in Forestry and Wildlife from Virginia Tech, and his M.S. in Biology from East Carolina University. Chris grew up in Leesburg, VA before attending college. He lives in Morehead City, NC with his wife, Tina, and son, Sheldon.
Contact
Phone: 252-808-8009
Email: chris.batsavage@deq.nc.gov