Matt Hunter is the Supervising Shellfish Project Leader working with all shellfish, except pink shrimp and Dungeness crab. He is based in the Astoria field office and works primarily with the commercial and recreational razor clam fisheries for the entire coast. 

Matt has worked for ODFW for more than 33 years. He came to the Marine Resources Program in 2001 focusing on razor clams, pink shrimp and crab. Some of his current projects include: population assessment of Clatsop Beach razor clams, Oregon coastal phytoplankton monitoring for harmful algal blooms, and razor clam maturation studies on Clatsop Beach. 

Matt earned a bachelor’s degree in marine biology from Oregon State University. He worked at the Hatfield Marine Science Center as a scientific interpreter for a summer. He also did research in Chile on the South American Guanaco, an endangered species and relative of the Llama. 

He enjoys spending time with his wife traveling, hunting, clamming, fishing, and training his bird hunting dogs.