Jim Negus - Reservoir Fisheries Biologist
Jim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Wofford College in 1981. He worked in Senegal, West Africa from 1983-1986 as a fisheries extension agent with the Peace Corps and was responsible for transferring tilapia aquaculture techniques to rural farming cooperatives.
He earned a Masters of Science degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1993. His thesis involved a radio telemetry study of the movements and spawning strategy of crappie in Douglas Reservoir.
Jim has been employed by the TWRA since 1993 as a reservoir fisheries biologist. He is presently a Wildlife Manager II and responsible for the collection and analysis of data from fish populations in several East Tennessee reservoirs including Norris, Cherokee, Fort Loudoun, Tellico, Melton Hill, Calderwood, and Chilhowee.
Jim received his Wildlife Officer commission in 1999 after graduating from Tennessee's Law Enforcement Academy. He routinely enforces boating and fishing laws on area reservoirs when necessary.
