Quality management encompasses a suite of principles and tools that guide and support an organization-wide commitment to continuous improvement. By implementing a QM/CI approach, agencies and teams can enhance outcomes by first improving the underlying procedures that drive them.
Whether it’s combining complex and divergent information streams into a single, accessible data source, or creating a strategic plan to drive a good idea from the whiteboard to the field, the QM/CI PSG has resources and funding available to help solve the everyday challenges faced by scientists, managers, and others who work with fisheries data.
Funding
Each year, the Fisheries Information System, National Observer Program, and National Catch Shares Program fund projects that enhance science and management. A key area of interest for this funding stream’s Request for Proposals is support for initiatives that incorporate quality management and continuous improvement practices—such as strategic planning or process analysis workshops—into new or existing projects to improve fishery-dependent data collection, storage, and dissemination.
Learn how FIS supports innovative projects
Explore previously funded quality management and continuous improvement projects
Tools
A variety of exercises, tools, and best practices can help us understand and improve data, processes, and projects. Group members have provided descriptions, examples, and templates from completed projects to help understand the benefit of these tools.
Learn about quality management and continuous improvement tools
Read about quality management and continuous improvement success stories
Contact Us
Members of this group provide guidance and expertise to the NOAA Fisheries community and our partners. To learn more about quality management and continuous improvement or to request help applying these tools to a project you’re working on, email the group or reach out directly to the group member from your region or office.
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Glenn Campbell
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glenn.campbell@noaa.gov
206-526-4240
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Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division
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Stacy Katasse
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stacy.katasse@noaa.gov
907-586-7363
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Alaska Regional Office
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Julie Defilippi Simpson
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julie.simpson@accsp.org
703-842-0787
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Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ACCSP)
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Taylor Compton
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taylor.compton@noaa.gov
978-675-2161
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Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office
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Donna Bellais
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dbellais@gsmfc.org
228-875-5912
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Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission GulfFIN
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Karen Sender
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karen.sender@noaa.gov
301-427-8192
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Headquarters Office of Science and Technology
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Lucas Johansen
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lucas.johansen@noaa.gov
301-427-8141
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Headquarters Office of Science and Technology
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Melissa Yencho
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melissa.yencho@noaa.gov
301-427-8193
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Headquarters Office of Science and Technology
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Debra Duarte
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debra.duarte@noaa.gov
508-495-2304
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Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Fisheries Monitoring and Research Division
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| Erin Kupcha |
erin.kupcha@noaa.gov
508-495-2031
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Northeast Fisheries Science Center |
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Jeff Cowen
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jeff.cowen@noaa.gov
206-860-3413
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Northwest Fisheries Science Center
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Dawn Golden
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dawn.golden@noaa.gov
808-725-5100
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Pacific Islands Regional Office
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Bob Ryznar
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robert_ryznar@psmfc.org
503-595-3234
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Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
AKFIN/PacFIN
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Jenny Suter
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jenny.suter@noaa.gov
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Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
West PacFIN
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Jason Edwards
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jedwards@psmfc.org
503-595-3109
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Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission RecFIN
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Jennifer Cudney
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jennifer.cudney@noaa.gov
727-209-5980
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Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division (SE Branch)
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Vivian Matter
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vivian.matter@noaa.gov
305-361-4571
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Southeast Fisheries Science Center
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Michelle Masi
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michelle.masi@noaa.gov
727-551-5729
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Southeast Regional Office
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Yuhong Gu
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yuhong.gu@noaa.gov
858-546-7053
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Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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Taylor Debevec
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taylor.debevec@noaa.gov
562-980-4066
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West Coast Region
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More Information
Wellfleet Massachusetts Oyster Farm. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Adriane Michaelis
Oceanic whitetip shark. Hawaiʻi longline fishermen use leaders to connect weighed branch lines and baited hooks. A new rule prohibits steel wire leaders in the Hawaiʻi deep-set longline fishery, starting May 31, 2022. The rule aims to increase the survival of hooked oceanic whitetip sharks caught as bycatch in the Pacific Islands region. Credit: Andy Mann
Students investigate a spider conch in Fouha Bay, Guam as part of a monitoring event with the Guam Community Coral Reef Monitoring Program. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.
Right whale #3853 swimming north offshore of South Carolina on Jan. 20, 2011 with a series of fresh propeller wounds running across its back. The whale was observed 5 days previously offshore of Georgia without propeller wounds. It is unknown whether the whale survived its wounds or not, as it has not been re-sighted since. Vessel collisions are a leading cause of right whale mortality. Credit: EcoHealth Alliance (NOAA permit #594-1759).