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Doug Demko is the President and founding member of FISHBIO, an environmental consulting firm specializing in fisheries research, monitoring, and conservation. Trained in fisheries biology and environmental law, Doug’s 25 years of experience in fisheries studies, facilitation, and negotiation have earned him the reputation of a regional fisheries expert in fishery flow and Endangered Species Act issues. He currently advises large water coalitions, private corporations, city and county governments, and environmental groups on a variety of fisheries and water resource management issues. Doug has advised and worked with various politicians and their staff, has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., the California State Legislature, and regularly before the California State Water Resources Control Board.

Doug’s expertise includes fish life-history research and assessment; fish passage assessment; and fish population dynamics of California native fishes, estuarine species, and introduced species. Doug has led a variety of field research projects including mark-recapture studies to evaluate survival and entrainment, mortality and behavioral studies, limiting factor analyses, salmonid outmigration and survival characterizations, and abundance and distribution analyses. His extensive experience with fish population assessment and state-of-the-science technologies has led to new and innovative approaches in the field of salmonid research. Doug holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from California State University, Chico, and a J.D. from CalNorthern School of Law.