Selection of Hans Mork Jensen, a fish biologist with 13 years' experience in the Washington State Department of Fisheries, to fill the newly established position of fisheries management specialist in the Portland area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs was announced today by the Department of the Interior.
The new position was set up by the Bureau to provide Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest with specialized technical assistance in developing and conserving their fishery resources and making the most effective use of them commercially, Fisheries are a major undeveloped resource of Indians in the area.
Jensen, who will move into the new position on February 1, 1962, was born at Gig Harbor, Washington, in 1915 and graduated from the University of Washington in 1942, He came with the Washington State Department of Fisheries in 1948 as a biologist and served as a senior project leader working with commercial fishery management, Indian fisheries and the international aspects of the State's salmon fishery problems. His present post is assistant supervisor of the reimbursable contracts division of the Department of Fisheries. Before joining the Department he worked as a biologist with the International Fisheries Commission and held a number of other similar positions.
He is the author of several professional papers on fishery matters and has appeared as an expert on the subject in two documentary motion pictures.
