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New Fish and Game Biologist Aims For Balance

Greta Mart

Justin Leon is the newest staff biologist at Dutch Harbor's Alaska Department of Fish and Game office. He now assists biologist Miranda Westphal in managing the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands (BSAI) area for the Division of Commercial Fisheries. 

Leon has been on the job now since December and said he and his wife had always wanted to see Unalaska, so when a job came up here he eagerly applied. The couple moved here from Nome with their new baby boy.

Originally from Georgia, he earned an undergraduate degree from University of Georgia. He's been in Alaska full-time since 2008 and earned a master's in fisheries at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Leon said he hopes to accomplish a balance in his work here.

"I want to effectively manage groundfish fisheries so that everybody can make a living for themselves and their families, but then also, of course, keep fish around for years to come," Leon said.

Miranda Westphal is the office's area management biologist and Leon is now the assistant area management biologist.

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Greta Mart worked for KUCB in 2015 and 2016.