She has also supported the Commercial Fishing Fleet at Pillar Point Harbor. She supported and voted for the Commercial Boats being able to sell fresh fish directly from the boats.

Pietro Parravano, Vice President
Pietro Parravano is the President of the Institute for Fisheries Resources. Since his tenure with the Pew National Ocean Commission, he has been active in promoting its recommendations of reforming ocean policy. He is a member of the California Sea Grant Advisory Board. He is co-chair of the Roots of Change Council. The Roots of Change is a collaborative of diverse leaders and institutions unified in common pursuit of achieving a sustainable food system in California by 2030. He is a founding member of the San Mateo County Food System Alliance. This alliance is comprised of 25 individuals committed to creating a sustainable food system in San Mateo County. In 2005, he initiated the process to form a national organization of commercial fishermen. Now the group is established with a national membership.

He has received numerous awards from all levels of government and community organizations for his advocacy of sustainable fishing. He received his master’s degree in biology from Eastern Michigan University. After completing graduate school, he taught science and mathematics at Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley.

He resides in Half Moon Bay with his wife Joan. She is a nursing supervisor and emergency room nurse at Seton Coastside Hospital in Moss Beach.

James J. Tucker,Treasurer
Commissioner Jim Tucker of San Mateo was elected to the Harbor Commission in November 1998, following his appointment to fill a vacancy earlier in the year.

Jim Tucker is a Vietnam veteran having served in the U.S. Navy from 1961 to 1966.

Mr. Tucker is a former Juvenile Probation Officer for the City and County of San Francisco leaving the Court after twelve years of service to form his own construction company. Today he is a licensed general building contractor and engineer. He has been active in San Mateo County for more than 30 years. While serving as an elected member of the City Council of Daly City (1978-1990), he was selected to be Mayor for two terms by his colleagues.

His community activities have included serving on numerous boards and committees including the Project 90 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Foundation, San Mateo Easter Seals, Peninsula Re-Care, Stonestown YMCA, San Mateo County Criminal Justice Council, and he has been a Sponsor in Ducks Unlimited.

At San Francisco State University he attained his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology, and then a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Golden Gate University. Mr. Tucker and his wife Buffy have three children and seven grandchildren and have lived in San Mateo County for over 35 years.

Ken Lundie, Secretary
Ken Lundie has been active in coastal issues for over 12 years since moving to Moss Beach from San Francisco with his family.

Describing himself as a mainstream conservationist, Lundie is president of Coastside Preservation and Recreation Inc., a non-profit Land Trust that owns and maintains the Moss Beach Children's Park. He was appointed in 1998 to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N.O.A.A.), and held the "Diving Seat" on the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and was San Mateo County's sole representative on the 24-member Blue Ribbon Advisory Council that oversees the largest marine sanctuary in the world.

A San Francisco firefighter for over 25 years, Lundie works at San Francisco International Airport as a certified Fire Boat Pilot. He is also partners in a commercial fishing vessel berthed at Pillar Point. He is an advocate for conservation of marine resources and sustainable fisheries management.

He is affiliated with the Pacifica Land Trust, National Shellfish Association, Abalone and Marine Resources Council, World Abalone Association, Save Our Shores, Friends of the Fitzgerald Marine Life Refuge, Mid-Coast Parklands, International Association of Firefighters, Marine War Memorial Association, and the Half Moon Bay and Moss Beach Landing Fisherman's Marketing Associations.

Ken and his wife, Marie, both graduates of City College of San Francisco, have an 11-year-old son, Steven, who attends Cunha Intermediate School in Half Moon Bay and is active in the San Mateo chapter of the Boy Scouts of America Troop 255.

Leo Padreddii, Commissioner, Past President
Mr. Padreddii was elected Commissioner in November 1998, following his appointment to fill a vacancy in June 1997. Mr. Padreddi was re-elected in 2000 and 2004.

Born and raised in San Mateo County, Mr. Padreddii has been Mayor, City Councilman, and Planning Commissioner of the City of South San Francisco. He was intensively involved in the initial development of the Oyster Point Marina/Park, now administered for the City by the Harbor District under a Joint Powers Agreement which Mr. Padreddii also helped to draft.

Mr. Padreddii served as co-chairman of the Joint Harbor District/South San Francisco Water Transit Fact-Finding Panel, created to develop the basis for establishing San Francisco Bay ferry and water taxi services at Oyster Point Marina/Park. These services will provide a needed alternative to increasingly difficult highway travel around and across the Bay.

Mr. Padreddii's has 32 years city and state law enforcement experience, including FBI training at the CHP Academy, and alcoholic beverage control investigator. Padreddii has also served on the South San Francisco School Board for nine years, including two as Chairman, and also served on the San Mateo County Fair Board.