Eldon J. Levi
NOAA Beaufort Lab Oral Histories
Interviews with retired staff of NOAA Beaufort Lab, documenting their academic background, career path, research focus, and reflections on their work in the lab.
- Eldon was born and raised in California. He served in the U.S. Army overseas.
- He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Management from San Jose State University in the mid-1960s.
- Eldon was initially employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries at field stations in Alaska and Michigan.
- In 1967 he accepted employment with the Menhaden Program at the Beaufort Lab. He served as field supervisor for tagging and juvenile abundance surveys on the Atlantic coast.
- In the early 1970s he was assigned to work as field supervisor and port agent to the menhaden factories at Fernandia Beach, Florida.
- In the late 1970s he was transferred to Pensacola Beach, Florida, where he supervised fishery-dependent data collection for the gulf menhaden fishery.
- He retired from the NMFS in 1994.
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