2007 Symposium Steering Committee
 
- Kacky Andrews, Coastal States Organization
- Robert Bacon, South Carolina Sea Grant
- Ronald Baird, University of North Carolina- Wilmington
- Jim Balsiger, NOAA Fisheries
- Steven Barnum, NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of Coastal Surveys
- Ken Barton, NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of Response & Restoration
- Dan Basta, NOAA National Ocean Service, National Marine Sanctuary Program
- Douglas Beard, USGS, Fisheries: Aquatic & Endangered Resources Program
- Thomas Bigford, NOAA Fisheries, Office of Habitat Conservation
- John Boreman, NOAA Fisheries, Office of Science & Technology
- Leon Cammen, NOAA Sea Grant
- Ralph Cantral, NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of Ocean & Coastal Resource Management
- Tracy Collier, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
- Howard Danley, NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey
- Margaret Davidson, NOAA National Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center
- Rick Devoe, South Carolina Sea Grant
- Jack Dunnigan, NOAA National Ocean Service
- Peter Fricke, NOAA Fisheries, Office of Sustainable Fisheries
- David Kennedy, NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of Ocean & Coastal Resource Management
- Steve Kozak, NOAA National Ocean Service
- Gary Matlock, NOAA National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
- Kate McLaughlin, American Fisheries Society & Sea Grant
- Pat Montanio, NOAA Fisheries, Office of Habitat Conservation
- Steve Murawski, NOAA Fisheries
- Jim Murray, NOAA Sea Grant
- Mamie Parker, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Fisheries & Habitat Conservation
- Gus Rassam, American Fisheries Society
- Nat Scholz, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
- Terry Smith, NOAA Sea Grant
- Mike Spranger, Florida Sea Grant
- Mike Szabados, NOAA National Ocean Service, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products & Services
- Jim Thomas, NOAA Fisheries, Office of Habitat Conservation
- Galen Tromble, NOAA Fisheries
- Dave Zilkoski, NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of National Geodetic Survey
- Roger Zimmerman, NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center