Certificate competency Master 4 and Marine Engine Driver Grade 2; Radar Course Level 3; Abalone Diver since 1978; 2 seasons each with rock lobster and tuna long-line. Past Chairman Quality Tasmanian Abalone P/L (abalone processing and marketing company).

Member Abalone Fishery Advisory Committee, Abalone Stock Assessment Committee, Abalone Research Advisory Group. Previous Director TFIC. Current QuotaHolder and Diver.

Director of TAC since 1990; President since August 2007.

Bachelor of Education; 16 years teaching; Treasurer Surfing Tasmania; Volunteer fireman Scamander Brigade 12 years; Abalone deckhand 1989; 5 years abalone diving; Quota holder; Board Member Tasmanian Fisheries Research Advisory Board 8 years; Board Member Abalone Council Australia 6 years; TAC Representative Abalone Research Advisory Group; Board Member Tasmanian Abalone Council since 1993; Vice President TAC 2007.

Educated at The Hutchins School; obtained a Bachelor of Economics from University of Tasmania in 1970; involved in the abalone industry since commencing diving from 1967 to 1969 to fund a university education; Member of the University SRC; Office Manager of Melbourne stockbroking firm RO Williams Tolhurst & Co to 1975; Partner philatelic form Rex & Fair Philatelists (Aust); President, The Hutchins School and Collegiate School Supporters and Rowing; Board member St Michael's Collesiate to 2005; current member Narryna Heritage Museum Committee.

Director and Treasurer TAC since August 2005.

General Manager and owner of Tasmanian Seafoods P/L; involved in abalone processing for 35 years and the largest processor in Australia with factories in Smithton, Margate and Triabunna in Tasmani and Dandenong in Victoria.

Director and Secretary of TAC since 1994.  Life Member of TAC since 2006.

Abalone diver since 1983; dived in Victoria for 2 years; VADA committee member when quotas were introduced; carpenter by trade; President of Kingborough Tigers Football Club.

TFIC Director.

Director of TAC since 1995. Vice President of TAC 1995 to 2007.

Pharmacist.  Owner of 2 pharmacies in Hobart over 35 years.  Director of Pharmaceutical Defence Ltd; Board Member of Pharmaceutical Society Australia (Tas Branch).  QuotaHolder since late 1980's. 

Director of TAC since August 2007.

Deckhand 1989 to 1994; Abalone diver since 1994; Diesel Fitter and Draftsman by trade.

Director of TAC since 1999.

18 years in banking; 12 years in fish-processing, trawling, boat building and maintenance; 13 years as commercial abalone diver.

Director of TAC since 2002.

Diver Subcouncil Chairman since 2005.

General Manager, Tasmanian Seafoods, Margate since June 1995; President, Abalone Association of Australasia since 1997; Marketing Manager, Seafood, Safcol P/L/Tassal Ltd July 1989 to June 1995; Seafood Export Consultative Committee (AQIS) since 2002; Tasmanian/Queensland Government fishing ndustry employment, July 1976 to June 1989; obtained Bachelor Agricultural Economics, University of England, Armidale, NSW 1976.

Director of TAC and Processor SubCouncil Chair since 1996.

Dean Lisson

Chief Executive

(2008) Master of Business Administration; Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; Graduate Diploma of Business in Professional Management; Bachelor of Applied Science in Applied Chemistry; Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute; Bachelor of Education in Maths/Science Teaching; Tasmanian Teachers Certificate.

Vice Chairman and Director of the Abalone Council of Australia Ltd; Director of the Abalone Council of New South Wales Ltd; Former Director and President of the Tasmanian Abalone Council Ltd (1994 to 2007); Life Member of the Tasmanian Abalone Council Ltd since 2004.

Professional Abalone Diver since 1986, Director of own Commercial Fishing Company.

Member Abalone Fishery Advisory Committee; Member Abalone Research Advisory Group; Member of Abalone Stock Assessment Working Group.

Melinda Mullen

Administrative Manager/Project Officer