Brian Canaday

Brian Canaday was recently named as the Missouri Department of Conservation's Fisheries Division Chief. Brian graduated from Marshalltown Community College in 1990 with an Associate of Arts degree in Biological Science, Iowa State University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology and the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2005 with a Masters of Public Administration (with honors). Brian was also named a National Conservation Leadership Institute Fellow in 2013. Brian began working for the Missouri Department of Conservation in Fisheries Division in the fall of 1993 and has served the citizens of Missouri in progressively responsible positions within Fisheries Division, Policy Coordination, Wildlife Division and Private Land Services Division. His extensive experience, demonstrated leadership, and ability to communicate and collaborate with partners to achieve conservation goals make him an ideal fit to lead MDC's Fisheries Division. Brian lives in Columbia Missouri with his wife Bridget, also from Marshalltown (class of '87) and they have two children, Josh, a sophomore at Benedictine College in Atchison Kansas and Haley, a freshman at Tolton Catholic High School.