Director of Enhancement Operations
Core Program
Sustainable Seafood
Research Program
Stock-Enhancement & Finfish Telemetry Ecology
Education
B.S., Biology, San Diego State University
M.S., Ecology, San Diego State Unversity
As a Research Scientist, Mike has used acoustic telemetry to track cultured fish and investigated surgical implantation and wound healing. He was co-principal investigator (1993–2006) on studies of coastal development’s impact and managed marine fish cage environmental assessments in the U.S. and Mexico (2004–2014). As a NAUI SCUBA instructor and HSWRI’s Diving Safety Officer since 2003, he is dedicated to safety and education. He launched Seabass in the Classroom in 2010, inspiring students in aquaculture and STEAM. Appointed Director of Fisheries Replenishment Operations in 2015, Mike now leads the only commercial-scale marine fish hatchery on the U.S. West Coast.
Publications
Shane, M. A., R. MacNamara, L. Bellquist, M. A. Drawbridge. 2025. Otolith ageing of white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis): Known-age validation, reader performance and sex-specific growth patterns. Journal of Fish Biology 1-8.
MacNamara, R., M. A. Shane, V. B. Muñoz, M. A. Drawbridge. 2025. Assessing postrelease mortality in hook-and-line fishing of a large coastal sciaenid, the white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis). Fishery Bulletin 123(2):119-126.
Drawbridge, M.A., M. A. Shane, and C. Silbernagel. 2021. The status of white seabass Atractoscion nobilis as a commercially ready species for marine US aquaculture. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 52(3), 647-661.
Bowles, A.E., S.L. Denes, and M.A. Shane. 2010. Acoustic characteristics of ultrasonic coded transmitters for fishery applications: Could marine mammals hear them? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128:3223-3231.
Hervas, S., K. Lorenzen, M.A. Shane, and M.A. Drawbridge. 2010. Quantitative assessment of a white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis) stock enhancement program in California: post-release dispersal, growth and survival. Fisheries Research 105:237-243.
Allen, L.G., D.J. Pondella II, and M.A. Shane. 2007. Fisheries independent assessment of a returning fishery: Abundance of juvenile white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis) in the shallow nearshore waters of Southern California Bight, 1995-2005. Fisheries Research 88:24-32.