Photo Release: Coast Guard North Pacific Fisheries Training Center holds change of command in Kodiak, Alaska

Cmdr. Tom Walsh, commanding officer, Maritime Law Enforcement Academy, presents the certificate to accompany the award of the Coast Guard Commendation Medal to Lt. Conor Sullivan, outgoing commanding officer, North Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center, at the unit in Kodiak, Alaska, June 14, 2013.

Walsh presided over the change of command ceremony during which Lt. Steve Hulse took command of the NPRFTC.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.

The crew of the North Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center stands at attention as Lt. Conor Sullivan, commanding officer, NPRFTC, reads his orders directing him to detach from the unit and report to the Coast Guard Cutter Bainbridge Island in New Jersey during a change of command ceremony at the unit in Kodiak, Alaska, June 14, 2013.

The NPRFTC trains Coast Guardsmen in the procedures to enforce the rules and regulations governing fisheries in the United States exclusive economic zone thus protecting marine resources and leveling the playing field for all commercial fishermen.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.

Lt. Conor Sullivan, former commanding officer, North Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center (right), congratulates Lt. Steve Hulse (left), on his new command of the unit during a change of command ceremony in Kodiak, Alaska, June 14, 2013.

Hulse recently completed a graduate study at the University of Delaware, earning a master's degree in marine policy and Sullivan, who has commanded the NPRFTC since July 2010, is departing to take command of the Coast Guard Cutter Bainbridge Island.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.