April 1951 CCWMEHCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 31 



Branch of Commercial Fisheries Personnel Changes 



The transfer of several enqjloyees from the Seirvicete Branch of Ccranercial Fish- 

 eries to the Defense Fisheries Acinijnistration has resulted in a number of personnel 

 changes and new assignments within the Branch. 



Wm. H. Dumont, formerly Chief of the Branch's Fishery Market News Section, has 

 been reassigned as Chief of the Educational and Market Developnienb Section to fill 

 the vacancy left by the transfer of the former Chief, Don Aska, to DFA Area Repre- 

 sentative in New Orleans. Dumont has been with the Service for about 22 years. 

 Prior to his assignnent as Chief of the Market News Section, he organized and was 

 placed in charge of the Section's New York office, and before this he had conducted 

 a number of statistical fishery surveys. Before entering Goverment service, he 

 had his own oyster planting and shucking business in New Jersey, Dumont is a grad- 

 uate of Rutgers University, 



Joseph Pileggi has been promoted from Assistant Chief to Chief of the Market 

 News Section, For the past three years, Pileggi has been responsible for the edit- 

 ing and preparation of the Service's monthly publication, Caanercial Fisheries Re- 

 view , Prior to his assignnent to Washington, he served in various capacities in 

 the Section's New York, Boston, and Jacksonville offices, A World War II veteran, 

 he has been with the Section for almost 14 years. He received his education at 

 Boston University, Washington University, and New York University, 



C, Eldred Peterson has been appointed Chief of the Branch's Statistical Section 

 to fill the vacancy left by the transfer of the former Chief, E. A,. Power, to DFA 

 as Chief of the Material Facilities Branch, Peterson transferred frcm the position 

 of Chief of the Brsinch of Alaska Fisheries' Statistical and Analytical Unit in 

 Seattle, Formerly he was Assistant Chief of the Statistical Section of the Branch 

 of Commercial Fisheries. Prior to this he was enqjloyed by the New Orleans Quarter- 

 master Marketing Center in the capacity of a marketing specialist, and before that 

 he was in charge of the New Orleans Fishery Market News Service office. A graduate 

 of the University of Washington School of Fisheries, he has also had connercial 

 fishing e3q)erience in Alaska, Louisiana, and Mississippi, 



Walter H, Stolting has been promoted from Assistant Chief to Chief of the 

 Branch' s Economics and Cooperative Marketing Section, The position of Chief was 

 held by Dr, Richard A, Kalm prior to his transfer to DFA as Chief of the Economic 

 Facilities Branch. Qnployed by the Service since 19A4f Stolting entered Goverment 

 service in 1936 when he was hired by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the 

 Department of Agriculture to gather data in connection with parity pxdces. In 1942 

 and until he joined the Fish and Wildlife Service, he was employed by the War De- 

 partment on a wartime statistical assignnent. A graduate of Columbia University, 

 his acquaintance with the fishing industry came early when, as a boy, he worked in 

 his family's retail food market where fish was one of the principal commodities 

 handled. 



