Domingo G. Ochavillo has over 20 years of experience as a fisheries biologist and chief fisheries scientist. He currently serves as the Chief Fisheries Biologist for the American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, where he supervises various fisheries programs and provides technical advice on fisheries management. He also serves on the Statistical and Scientific Committee of the Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council. Ochavillo has a PhD in Marine Biology and Oceanography from the University of Southern California and has authored several peer-reviewed publications on fisheries research in American Samoa and the Philippines.

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RESUME
Domingo G. Ochavillo, PhD
Contact details: ochavill@gmail.com Phone: 684-633-4456
WORK EXPERIENCE
Chief Fisheries Biologist (2011 – Present), American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife
Resources (ASDMWR)
Provide fisheries technical advice on fisheries resources and marine habitat management;
Supervise data collection and analyses of various creel survey programs,
Supervise various programs: coral reef monitoring, fish aggregation device, marine protected area, wetlands
restoration, coral reef rehabilitation, and coral reef advisory programs
Prepare technical reports and scientific papers for publication and presentation in various meetings;
Manage division staff and grants including proposal development and implementation and expense tracking
Chair the Territorial Fisheries Local Action Strategy in identifying fisheries issues and priority research
Organize the Territorial Fisheries Ecosystem Plan for WPRFMC
Write position papers that concern fisheries resources and habitat management in American Samoa
Member, (2011 – Present), Statistical and Scientific Committee, Western Pacific Regional Fisheries
Management Council (WPRFMC)
Provide technical advice on various fisheries-related issues such as review of stock assessment and
development of catch limits for various fisheries in the areas covered by WPRFMC.
Fisheries Biologist (2008 – 2011), American Samoan Government (ASDMWR)
Plan, design, and implement underwater surveys of commercially-important fish in Am Samoa
Analyze data and write scientific reports for internal and external communications
Provide fisheries technical advice on fisheries resources
Coordinate with officials of local agencies and with federal scientists and policy-makers concerning the
management of coral reefs in the territory
Develop project proposals
Manage staff and program budget
Chief Fisheries Scientist (2002-2008), Consultant for WB-GEF MAMTI Project
Develop a scientific framework to derive catch limits for ornamental fish and corals in Philippines and
Indonesia.
Develop monitoring protocol and train international staff for stock assessment of ornamentals
Develop stock assessment models for catch limits of ornamentals and provide fisheries management
recommendations
Write scientific reports for internal and external communications
Coordinate with various international NGO partners and various country’s government agencies to manage
ornamentals
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Biology (Marine Biology and Oceanography), Univ. of Southern California, 2002
M.S., Marine Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1993
B.S., Marine Fisheries, University of the Philippines-Diliman, 1987

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RELEVANT TRAINING
Fisheries stock assessment
Population genetic analyses
Univariate and multivariate data analyses
Developing fisheries dependent survey protocols
Developing fisheries-independent survey protocols
Population modeling, fish life history analyses
Basic and Advanced Grants Management (Fish and Wildlife Service)
Relevant Manuscripts:
Ochavillo D, Sabater M, Tofaeono S and Trip E. 2011. Population structure of Ctenochaetus striatus
(Acanthuridae) in Tutuila, American Samoa: the use of size-at-age data in multi-scale
population size surveys. Fisheries Research 107:14-21.
Kent E. Carpenter;Muhammad Abrar;Greta Aeby;Richard B. Aronson;Stuart Banks;Andrew Bruckner;Angel
Chiriboga;Jorge Cortes Nunez;J. Charles Delbeek;Lyndon DeVantier;Graham J.
Edgar;Alasdair J. Edwards;Douglas Fenner;Hector M. Guzman;Bert W. Hoeksema;Gregor
Hodgson;Ofri Johan;Wilfredo Y. Licuanan;Suzanne R. Livingstone;Edward R.
Lovell;Jennifer A. Moore;David O. Obura; Domingo Ochavillo ;Beth A. Polidoro;William F.
Precht;Miledel C. Quibilan;Clarissa Reboton;Zoe T. Richards;Alex D. Rogers;Jonnell
Sanciangco;Anne Sheppard;Charles Sheppard;Jennifer Smith;Simon Stuart;Emre Turak;John
E.N. Veron;Carden Wallace;Ernesto Weil;Elizabeth Wood. 2008. One third of reef-building
corals face elevated extinction risk from climate change and local impacts. Science
321(5888): 560-563.
Ochavillo D, Sabater M and Trip E. 2012. Sex-specific and small-scale geographic plasticity in some
demographic parameters of the protogynous monandric grouper Cephalopholis urodeta in
American Samoa. Presented in the 2012 International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns,
Australia.
Ochavillo D, Sabater M and Wielgus J. 2011. Application of ecological model to coral reef fisheries
management in American Samoa. Presented in the Asia Pacific Science Congress, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
Hodgson G and Ochavillo D. 2006. MAQTRAC: Marine aquarium trade coral reef monitoring protocol
(field manual).
Ochavillo D and Hodgson G. 2006. MAQTRAC: Marine aquarium trade coral reef monitoring protocol (data
analysis and interpretation manual).
Fishery Ecosystem Plan for American Samoa (2012)