Area of Expertise
Highly Migratory Species; Pelagic Fisheries; Marine and Estuarine Ecology
Education
  • B.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, 1990
  • M.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M Univristy, College Station, TX, USA 1993

Randy Blankinship works with the Highly Migratory Species Division of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Prior to going to NMFS in 2006, he worked with the Coastal Fisheries Division of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department for more than 13 years conducting marine fisheries research and management in the lower Laguna Madre of Texas, Gulf of Mexico and Rio Grande estuary.