Jimbo - After reading your question and the answers so far, I think a response actually could be split into two parts.
If you are asking about becoming a private sector fisheries biologist, such as the professional pondmeisters who frequent this site, I would echo what has already been said. You'll need at least some biological background, some darn good field experience, and then I'll bet an MBA might be pretty darn valuable. After all, you'd be in private busines. I don't know much about that business, and hopefully you'll get some more feedback on this website from the folks out there doing such work!
If you are interested in becoming a fishery biologist for a state, provincial, or federal agency, then I think an M.S. in fisheries would be much more valuable for most jobs than would be the MBA.
An organization called the American Fisheries Society maintains the certification program for fisheries professionals. Quite a few of my Canadian friends are also AFS members, even though it says "American" Fisheries Society rather than "North American." (We've actually had some debates over this in the past.)
Anyway, following is the website for AFS. You can get quite a bit of information there.
http://www.fisheries.org Also, here is the link to their guide for selecting or evaluating a university fisheries program.
http://www.fisheries.org/html/Professional_Development/Criteria/criteria_eval _univ_fish_prg.shtml Hope this helps,
Dave
