Meet Fred Snyder
Extension Specialist and Sea Grant Program Co-LeaderOhio State University Extension
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Fred L. Snyder is an associate professor with Ohio State University Extension and has served as the District Sea Grant Extension Specialist on western Lake Erie since 1978. He has been Ohio Sea Grant Extension's program co-coordinator since 1998. His marine advisory efforts have focused on fishing industry development, exotic species in the Great Lakes, water quality improvement, tourism and coastal business development. Snyder conducted the first Ohio Charter Captain's Conference 1981, a program that has become the largest in the nation and now is in its 25th year. He currently is working with sport fishery, marina development, and lake levels issues, watershed protection and exotic species movement.
Snyder serves on a number of Lake Erie-related committees including the Portage River Basin Council's Recreation and Wildlife Committee (chair), the Port Clinton Transient/Safe Harbor Core Team, the Lake Erie Buffer Team, The Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Board of Trustees, and the Assembly of Sea Grant Program Leaders. He is a past president of the Outdoor Writers of Ohio, Inc. and an assistant scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America. In 1995 he was inducted into the Lake Erie Charter Boat Association Hall of Fame.
Snyder grew up in the fishing tackle and live bait business in West Liberty, Ohio and later earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in fisheries management from The Ohio State University. He resides near Fremont, Ohio with his wife and two children. Beyond fishing, boating and hunting, his pastimes are local history, horticulture and genealogy.
