CURRICULUM VITAE FOR MARTIN A.HALL

FULL NAME: MARTIN ALBERTO HALLHOME ADDRESS: 16269 Rostrata Hill Rd.

Poway, CA 92064HOME PHONE: (858) 451-3721WORK ADDRESS c/o Scripps Inst. of Oceanography

8604 La Jolla Shores Dr.La Jolla, CA 92037

WORK PHONE: (858) 546-7044 / Fax (858) 546-7133e-mail: mhall@iattc.orgDATE OF BIRTH: June 24, 1947PLACE OF BIRTH: Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDEGREES: --Licenciado in Biological Sciences, 1973

University of Buenos Aires--Ph.D. in Fisheries, 1982 University of Washington, Seattle

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EMPLOYMENT RECORD:

1984 - Head of the Tuna-Dolphin Program of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, CA

1983 - 1984 Researcher, Centro Nacional Patagónico, Puerto Madryn, Argentina

1977 - 1982 Fulbright Fellowship, Univ. of Washington, Seattle1973 - 1977 Head of the Seaweed Resources Program, Puerto

Madryn, Argentina1972 - 1973 Fellowship for Advanced Training in Biometry and

Biostatistics, Institute of Neurobiology, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1970 - 1972 Teaching Assistant, Univ. of Buenos Aires1970 - 1972 Researcher on Ecology of Seaweeds/Benthic

Communities, Centro de Investigaciones de Biología Marina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French. Some knowledge of Portuguese, Italian.

AWARDS: Gerald H.Paulik Memorial Scholarship, 1981. Dean's List, 1982.

OTHER: --Member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Reducing Porpoise Mortality from Tuna Fishing. 1989 - 1992.

--Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 7/1/1994 - --Member of the Steering Committee of the Solving Bycatch National

Workshop, and Convener of the Management Solutions (International) Session. 1994-1995.

--Member of the Board of Directors of the National Fisheries Conservation Center. 8/96 –

--Member of the Standards Committee, Marine Stewardship Council, 2001.

--Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fundacion Vida Silvestre Argentina 2001-

--Member of the Scientific, Academic and Resource management section of the Stakeholder Council, Marine Stewardship Council, 2002 –2006

--Member of the Technical Advisory Board, Marine Stewardship Council 2006-

--Member of the Scientific Advisory Board to Seafood Watch 2003 – 2005

--Member of the Jury “Smart Gear” awards 2005-

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Tuna-dolphin issue: Expansion of international observer program from 3% to 100%

between 1984 and 1992, and adherence of all nations fishing in the region.

Management of the second largest observer program in the world.

Identification of the major factors causing or increasing dolphin mortality in the fishery.

Development and implementation of a fishers training program to improve performance in reducing dolphin mortality.

Reduction of dolphin mortality from over 130,000 in 1986 to less than 900 in 2006, while maintaining the fishing operations at a high level.

Other fisheries issues: Development of strategies for bycatch reduction programs, and

provision of technical and managerial advice to fisheries facing bycatch problems.

Initiation of a multinational fishers program to reduce sea turtle bycatch along the Pacific Coast of America. Details at the end.

Management issues: Development and implementation of the first bycatch

management system based on individual vessel quotas. Development and implementation of the Agreement for the

International Dolphin Conservation Program, a 19-nation treaty. Development and implementation of the first transparent

mechanism to monitor compliance with fisheries: the International Review Panel of the AIDCP.

THESES:1) Thesis for the degree of Licenciado: Analysis of the components in

biological diversity indices. 1973. Univ. de Buenos Aires 2) Ph.D. thesis: Spatial aspects in the population dynamics of the

Manila clam, Tapes philippinarum. 1982. School of Fisheries, Univ. of Washington, Seattle.

PUBLICATIONS:

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GALIANO, M.E. and HALL, M.A. 1973. Datos adicionales sobre el ciclo vital de Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet) (Areneae). PHYSIS, C. 32(85):277-288. (Additional data on the life cycle of Loxosceles laeta).

PALLARES, R. and HALL, M.A. 1974. Análisis bioestadístico ecológico de la fauna de copépodos asociada a los bosques de Macrocystis pyrifera. PHYSIS, A, 33, (86):275-319 and 33 (87):409-432. (Biostatistical-ecological analysis of the copepod fauna associated to Macrocystis pyrifera beds).

PORVEN, G. and HALL, M.A. 1975. Propiedades características de los medio de cultivo preparados para titular sensibilidad de micobacterias. MEDICINA XXXV (4):395-406. (Characteristic properties of culture media prepared for sensitivity titration of mycobacteria).

HALL, M.A. and BORASO de ZAIXSO, A.L. 1975. Clasificación de asociaciones vegetales bentónicas por métodos objetivos. Aplicación al mesolitoral de una playa rocosa. PHYSIS, A, 34(88):31-47. (Classification of benthic algal associations by objective methods. Application to the midlittoral of a rocky shore).

HALL, M.A. 1976. Métodos para la evaluación de los recursos de Macrocystis pyrifera. Parte I: El uso de película infrarroja en la medición de densidad con fotografía aérea. PHYSIS, A, 35(91):103-107) (Methods for resource assessment of Macrocystis pyrifera. Part I. The use of infrared film in density measurements from aerial photographs).

KREPPER, C.M. and HALL, M.A. 1976. Métodos para la evaluación de los recursos de Macrocystis pyrifera. Parte II: El uso de filtros en fotografía aérea para la medición del área de bosques. PHYSIS, A, 35(91):109-113. (Methods for resource assessment of Macrocystis pyrifera. Part II: The use of filters in aerial photographs for the measurement of the area of kelp beds).

HALL, M.A. and BORASO de ZAIXSO, A.L. 1979. Ciclos de los bosques de Macrocystis pyrifera en Bahía Camarones. Prov. del Chubut. ECOSUR 6(12):165-184. (Cycles of Macrocystis pyrifera beds in Camarones Bay).

SCOLARO, J.A., HALL, M.A., XIMENEZ, I. and KOVACS, O. 1979. El pinguino de Magallanes I. Evaluación y estratificación de su población en Punta Tombo, Chubut, Argentina. REV.MUS.ARG.CS.NAT.B.RIVADAVIA Ecol.II: (5):103-110) (The Magellanic penguin I. Assessment and stratification of its population in Point Tombo, Chubut, Argentina).

----------------------------- 1980. El pinguino de Magallanes II. Biología y desarrollo de la incubación en la colonia de Punta Tombo, (The Magellanic penguin II. Biology and incubation in Point Tombo, Chubut, Argentina)

HALL, M.A. 1980. Métodos para la evaluación de los recursos de Macrocystis pyrifera. Parte III: Consideraciones biométricas. CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGONICO, Contrib. No. 29, 14pp. (Methods for resource assessment of Macrocystis pyrifera. Part III: Biometrical considerations)

HALL, M.A. 1980. Evaluación de los recursos de Macrocystis pyrifera I. Costa de Chubut entre Punta Lobos y Punta Gaviota. CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGONICO, Contrib. No. 31, 10pp. (Assessment of the resources of Macrocystis pyrifera I. Coast of Chubut between Point Lobos and Point Gaviota).

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SCOLARO, J.A., HALL, M.A. and XIMENEZ, I. 1983. The Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus: Sexing adults by Discriminant Analysis of Morphometric characters. AUK 100 (1):221-224

HAMMOND, P.S. and HALL, M.A. 1985. Dolphin mortality incidental to purse seining for tunas in the eastern tropical Pacific inflicted by the U.S. fleet in 1983 and non-U.S. fleet in 1979-1983. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 35:431-433.

HALL, M.A. and BOYER, S.D. 1986. Incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna fishery: description of a new method and estimation of 1984 mortality. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 36:375-381.

HALL, M.A. and BOYER, S.D. 1987. Incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna fishery in 1985. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 37:361-362.

HALL, M.A. and BOYER, S.D. 1988. Incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna fishery in 1986. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 38:439-441.

MALACALZA, V.E. and HALL, M.A. 1988. Sexing Adult King Cormorants Phalacrocorax albiventer by Discriminant Analysis. Col. Waterbirds 11(1):32-37

HALL, M.A. and BOYER, S.D. 1989. Incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna fishery in 1987. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 39:321-322.

HALL, M.A. and BOYER, S.D. 1990. Incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern Pacific Ocean during 1988. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 40:461-462.

HALL, M.A. and BOYER, S.D. 1991. Incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern Pacific Ocean during 1989. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 41:507-509.

HALL, M.A. 1992. Atunes y delfines en el Océano Pacífico oriental: Situación actual y perspectivas de pesca e investigación. Relatorio 1992. 12a. Semana das Pescas dos Açores, pp. 221-232. (Tunas and dolphins in the eastern Pacific Ocean: current situation and perspectives for fishing and research).

HALL, M.A. and BOYER, S.D. 1992. Estimates of incidental mortality of dolphins in the purse-seine fishery for tunas in the eastern Pacific ocean in 1990. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 42:529-531.

HALL, M.A. and LENNERT, C. 1993. Estimates of incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern Pacific Ocean tuna fishery in 1991. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 43:397-399.

HALL, M.A. and LENNERT, C. 1994. Incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern Pacific Ocean tuna fishery in 1992. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 44:349-351.

HALL, M.A. 1994. Bycatches in purse-seine fisheries. In "Bycatches in Fisheries and their impact on the ecosystem", Pitcher, T.J and R. Chuenpagdee (eds.). Fisheries Centre Research Reports, Vol. 2, Nr.1.

HALL, M.A. 1994. A classification of bycatch problems and some approaches to their solutions. In "Bycatches in Fisheries and their impact on the ecosystem", Pitcher, T.J and R. Chuenpagdee (eds.). Fisheries Centre Research Reports, Vol. 2, Nr.1.

HALL, M.A. 1995. Ecological impacts of fishing operations: assessment and mitigation in the eastern Pacific tuna-dolphin interaction. European Res. on Cetaceans, vol.8. 42-46.

HALL, M.A. 1995. Strategies to reduce the incidental mortality of marine mammals and other species in fisheries. In "Developments in Marine Biology, Vol.IV: Whales,

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seals, fish and man". Proceedings of the International Symposium on the biology of marine mammals in the North East Atlantic. Schytte Bix, A., Walloe, L. and Ulltang,O. (eds.). Tromso, Norway, 29 November-1 December, 1994. Elsevier Publ.

LENNERT, C. and HALL, M.A. 1995. Estimates of incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern Pacific Ocean tuna fishery in 1993. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 45:387-390.

HALL, M.A. 1996. Strategies to reduce the incidental capture of marine mammals and other species in fisheries. In “Proceedings of the East Coast Bycatch Conference.” Castro, K., Corey, T., DeAlteris, J. and Gagnon, C. (eds.) Newport, Rhode Island, April 7-8, 1995. Rhode Island Sea Grant:41-44.

HALL, M.A. 1996. Strategic issues in managing fishery bycatches. In “Solving Bycatch: considerations for today and tomorrow.” Proceedings of the Solving bycatch Workshop. Seattle, Washington, September 25-27, 1995. Univ. of Alaska, Sea Grant College Program Rept. AK-SG-96-03:29-32.

HALL, M.A. 1996. On bycatches. Rev. Fish Biol. and Fisheries. Vol. 6:319-352.HALL, M.A. 1997. Dolphins and other bycatch in the eastern Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine

fishery. In “Fisheries bycatch: consequences and management” Proceedings of the Symposium held at Dearborn, Michigan, August 27-28, 1996. Univ. of Alaska, Sea Grant College Program Rept. AK-SG-97-02:35-38.

GARCIA, M.A. and HALL, M.A. 1997. Spatial and seasonal distribution of bycatch in the purse seine tuna fishery in the eastern Pacific Ocean. In “Fisheries bycatch: consequences and management” Proceedings of the Symposium held at Dearborn, Michigan, August 27-28, 1996. Univ. of Alaska, Sea Grant College Program Rept. AK-SG-97-02:39-44.

BRATTEN, D. and HALL, M.A. 1997. Working with fishers to reduce bycatch: the tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern Pacific Ocean. In “Fisheries bycatch: consequences and management” Proceedings of the Symposium held at Dearborn, Michigan, August 27-28, 1996. Univ. of Alaska, Sea Grant College Program Rept. AK-SG-97-02:97-100.

HALL, MARTIN A. 1997. Dolphins and other bycatch in the eastern Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine fishery. Univ. Alaska, Sea Grant College Program, Rep. 97-02: 35-38.

HALL, M.A. 1998. An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem. Rev. Fish Biol. and Fisheries. Vol. 8:1-34.

ORENSANZ, J.M., PARMA, A.M., and HALL, M.A. 1998. The analysis of concentration and crowding in shellfish research. In Proceedings of the North Pacific Symp. On Invertebrate Stock Assessment and Management. Eds. G.S. Jamieson, and A. Campbell. Can. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 125: 143-157. 486 HALL, MARTIN.

HALL, MARTIN. 1998. Dealing with by-catches: practical considerations. Inter. Comm. Cons. Atlan. Tunas, Coll. Vol. Sci. Pap., 50 (2): 661-662.

. HALL, MARTIN. 1998. Ecosystem research and tuna fisheries management: some key questions. Inter. Comm. Cons. Atlan. Tunas, Coll. Vol. Sci. Pap., 50 (2): 671-672.

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HALL, M.A., GARCIA, M., LENNERT-CODY, C., ARENAS, P. and MILLER, F. 1999. The association of tunas with floating objects and dolphins in the eastern Pacific: A review of the current purse-seine fishery. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, Special Rpt. 11. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Ecology and Fisheries for Tunas Associated with Floating Objects, La Jolla, California, February 11-13, 1992. pp. 87-194.

HALL, M.A., GARCIA, M., LENNERT-CODY, C. AND ARENAS, P. 1999. Characteristics of floating objects and their attractiveness for tunas. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, Special Rpt. 11. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Ecology and Fisheries for Tunas Associated with Floating Objects, La Jolla, California, February 11-13, 1992. pp. 396-446.

GARCIA, M., HALL, M.A., PARES-SIERRA, A. AND ARENAS, P. 1999. Simulated trajectories of floating objects entering the eastern Pacific Ocean. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, Special Rpt. 11. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Ecology and Fisheries for Tunas Associated with Floating Objects, La Jolla, California, February 11-13, 1992, pp. 346-395.

ARENAS, P., HALL, M.A. and GARCIA, M. 1999. Association of fauna with floating objects in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, Special Rpt. 11. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Ecology and Fisheries for Tunas Associated with Floating Objects, La Jolla, California, February 11-13, 1992, pp. 285-326.

HALL, M.A. 1999. Estimating the ecological impacts of fisheries: What data are needed to estimate bycatches. p. 175-184 in Nolan, C.P. (ed.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Integrated Fisheries Monitoring, Sidney, Australia, 1-5 February, 1999. FAO, Rome, 1999. 378 p.

HALL, M.A., ALVERSON, D. L., and METUZALS, K. 2000. Bycatch: Problems and solutions. Chapter 116, Vol. III: Global Issues and Processes, pp. 135-151. In Sheppard, C.R.C. (ed.), “Seas at the Milennium: An environmental evaluation.” Pergamon, Elsevier Science. Amsterdam-Lausanne-New York-Oxford-Shannon-Singapore-Tokyo. Reprinted in Marine Pollution Bulletin 41(1-6):204-219, 2000

LENNERT-CODY, C. and HALL, M.A. 2000. The development of the purse-seine fishery on drifting fish-aggregating devices (FADs) in the eastern Pacific Ocean: 1992-1998. Pp. 78-107. In Le Gall J.-Y., Cayré, P., and Taquet, M. (eds.) “Pêche thonière et dispositifs de concentration de poissons”. Ed. IFREMER, Actes Colloq., 28, 688 pp., Martinique, October 15-19, 1999.

FREON, P., HALL, M.A. and MARSAC, F. 2000. Prospective sur les methods et experimentations à mener sur le phénomène de l’agrégation des poisons pélagiques autour des DCP. (Prospective of methods and experiments on pelagic fishes aggregation by FADs). Pp. 579-591. In Le Gall J.-Y., Cayré, P., and Taquet, M. (eds.) “Pêche thonière et dispositifs de concentration de poissons”. Ed. IFREMER, Actes Colloq., 28, 688 pp., Martinique, October 15-19, 1999.

HALL, M.A. and WILLIAMS, P.G. 2000. Bycatch in the tuna net fisheries. In Hinman, Ken (editor), Getting Ahead of the Curve: Conserving the Pacific Ocean’s Tunas,

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Swordfish, Billfishes and Sharks, National Coalition for Marine Conservation, Symposium 16: 72-81.

CRESPO, E.A. and HALL, M.A. 2001. Chapter 15. Interactions between aquatic mammals and humans in the context of ecosystem management. In Evans, P. and Raga, A, (eds.) “Marine Mammals: Biology and Conservation” Plenum Press.

HALL, M.A. and DONOVAN, G. P. 2001. Chapter 14. Environmentalists, fishers, cetaceans and fish: is there a balance and can science help to find it? In Evans, P. and Raga, A, (eds.) “Marine Mammals: Biology and Conservation” Plenum Press.

HALL, M.A., CAMPA, M. and GOMEZ, M. 2001. Solving the tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern Pacific purse-seine fishery. 2003. Pp.60-92 In E.Mann Borgese, A. Chircop, and M.McConnell. Ocean Yearbook, Vol 17. Univ. of Chicago Press. 1133 pp.

NORRIS, S. with M. HALL, E. MELVIN and J. PARRISH. 2002. Thinking like an ocean: Ecological lessons from marine bycatch. Conservation in Practice: Vol. 3, Nr. 4.

LENNERT-CODY, C.E., MINAMI, M. AND HALL, M.A. 2004. Incidental mortality of dolphins in the eastern Pacific Ocean purse-seine fishery: Correlates and their spatial association. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 6(2):151-163.

ROBERTS, J.J., COYNE, M.S., HALPIN, P.N. and HALL, M.A. (Abstract) Separating sea turtles from fisheries: Oceanographic habitat models of sea turtles encountered in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna fishery. 26th International Sea Turtle Symposium.

HALL, M.A., NAKANO, H., CLARKE, S., THOMAS, S., MOLLOY, J., PECKHAM, H., LAUDINO-SANTILLÁN, J., NICHOLS, W.J., GILMAN, E., COOK, J., MARTIN, S., CROXALL, J.P., RIVERA, K., MORENO, C.A., and HALL, S.J. Chapter 8: Working with fishers to reduce by-catches. In Kennelly, S.J. (ed.) By-catch Reduction in the World’s Fisheries. Springer. 2007. Vol 7. 235-288

JORDAN T. WATSON, TIMOTHY E. ESSINGTON, CLERIDY E. LENNERT-CODY, and HALL, M.A. Trade-Offs in the Design of Fishery Closures: Management Of Silky Shark Bycatch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishery. Published Online, Conservation Biology on Nov 18 2008 3:11PMDOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01121.x

IN PREPARATION

HALL, M.A., SWIMMER, Y. and M. PARGA Chapter ?: NO “SILVER BULLETS”, BUT PLENTY OF OPTIONS: WORKING WITH THE EASTERN PACIFIC ARTISANAL FISHERS TO REDUCE SEA TURTLE MORTALITY IN FISHERIES. In Seminoff JA, Brusca R, eds. (In Review) Sea Turtles of the Eastern Pacific Ocean:

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Natural History, Conservation Challenges and Signs of Success. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ

GJERTSEN, H., HALL, M.A. and D. SQUIRES. Incentives to address bycatch issues.

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SEMINARS, LECTURES AND CONFERENCES (partial list, it includes only meetings where presentations were made.)

The Biology and Conservation of South American River Dolphins. Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society-United Nations Environment Program-International Union for the Conservation of Nature. September 24-27, 1992 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

V Workshop of Specialists in Aquatic Mammals of South America. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. September 28- October 2, 1992 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Seminar on tunas, logs and FADS. June 15th, 1993. South Pacific Commission. Noumea, New Caledonia.

Dolphins and other by-catches in the eastern Pacific tuna fisheries. June 21, 1993. Fisheries Research Institute - New South Wales Fisheries. Cronulla, Australia

Id. at the Zoology Dept. Univ. of Sidney, Australia. June 23rd, 1993.Id. at Greenpeace Australia headquarters, Sidney, Australia. Same date.Id. at CSIRO Marine Laboratories, June 24th, 1993. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.Bycatch issues in the eastern Pacific tuna fishery: dolphins, sharks, billfishes and other

species. June 28th, 1993. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF). Fisheries Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand.

Id. at Fisheries Research Centre, MAF Fisheries, June 29th. Auckland, New Zealand.Id. presented at the Greenpeace (New Zealand) High Seas Fisheries Symposium. July 2nd,

1993. Wellington, New Zealand.Id. presented at ORSTOM, Tahiti. July 5th, 1993. Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.Id at Gump Biological Station (U.C.Berkeley), Moorea. Also seminars on the association

between tunas and logs and tunas and dolphins, and on tracking of tunas and dolphins. July 6th, 1993. Moorea, French Polynesia.

Estado actual del problema atún-delfin y un análisis ecológico de las alternativas disponibles. Presented at Greenpeace (Mexico), Mexico City, August 16, 1992. [Recent developments in the tuna-dolphin problem and an ecological analysis of the available alternatives].

Id. at Universidad de Costa Rica, August 18, 1993.Id. at Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica, August 19, 1993.Id. at Hotel Colonial, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, August 20, 1993.Id. at the Instituto de Biología, Univ.Nac.Autónoma de México, Mexico City, August 23,

1993."An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem". Univ. of Concepción, Concepción, Chile,

September 16, 1993.Id. at Univ. Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, September 17, 1993.Id. and Workshop with Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (IFOP), Santiago, Chile, September

17, 1993.Id. at Comité Colombiano de Oceanografía, organized by the Instituto Nacional de Pesca y

Acuacultura (INPA), Bogotá, Colombia, September 29, 1993.

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Id. at Instituto Nacional de Pesca, organized by the Subsecretaría de Recursos Pesqueros, Guayaquil, Ecuador, September 30, 1993.

Id. at Cámara de Comercio de Panamá, organized by the Ministerio de Industria y Comercio, Dirección General de Recursos Marinos, Panama, Panama, October 4, 1993.

Id. at Univ. de Panama, Panama, October 4, 1993.Current problems in the management and conservation of marine mammals. Jornadas de

Ciencias del Mar, Puerto Madryn, Argentina, September 23, 1993.Workshop on Ecology of fishing operations, Jornadas de Ciencias del Mar, Puerto Madryn,

Argentina, September 24, 1993.Attended the "Observer Workshop" organized by the U.S. NMFS at Galveston, Texas on

November 9-10, 1993. "Recent developments in the tuna-dolphin issue". Tenth Biennial Meeting of The Society for

Marine Mammalogy at Galveston, Texas on November 11-15, 1993. Presentation at the 33rd. Meeting of the Marine Mammal Commission and 27th Meeting of

the Committee of Scientific Advisors on Marine Mammals. Galveston, Texas, November 17-19, 1993.

"An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern Pacific." Fisheries Research Centre Univ.of British Columbia, Vancouver, January 10, 1994.

Id. at Institute for Environmental Studies, U.of Washington, Seattle, Washington, January 12, 1994

Id. at Oregon State Univ., Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, Oregon, January 13, 1994.

Id. at Oregon State Univ., Dept.of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, Oregon, January 13, 1994.

Id. at Dept.of Biology, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, January 19, 1994

Id. at Greenpeace (Canada) offices in Vancouver (Jan.10), Seattle (Jan.12) and San Francisco (Jan.18), 1994.

"An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean" at the Center for Limnology, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Feb. 24, 1994. Organized by the Pacific Center for International Studies, the Dept.of Zoology and the Institute for Environmental Studies.

"International management of marine mammals: some challenges. The case study of the tuna-dolphin issue in the eastern Pacific." at the Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Feb. 25, 1994. Organized by the Pacific Center for International Studies, the Dept.of Zoology and the Institute for Environmental Studies.

"An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean" at the National Marine Fisheries Service Headquarters, Washington D.C. Feb.28, 1994.

Id. at the Law School, Georgetown Univ., Washington D.C. March 1st, 1994.Id. at The US Land and Wildlife Program, World Wildlife Fund, Washington D.C., March 2,

1994."El manejo internacional de mamíferos marinos y sus interacciones con pesquerías." 13a.

Semana das Pescas dos Acores. Horta, Azores Is. March 8, 1994.

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[International Management of marine mammals and their interactions with fisheries]

"Una visión ecológica del problema atún-delfín." Inst. Español de Oceanografía, Vigo, Spain. March 14, 1994. [An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem].

Id. at Greenpeace (Spain). Madrid, Spain. March 16, 1994.Id. at Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (Inst. Español de Oceanografía), Barcelona, Spain. March

18, 1994."Impactos ecológicos de las pesquerías." Dept. of Zoology, Univ. de Barcelona, Spain.

March 18, 1994. [Ecological impact of fishing operations]"Interazione tra tonni e delfini." Univ. of Bari. Bari, Italy. March 21, 1994. [Interactions

between tunas and dolphins]"An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem." Food and Agriculture Organization of the

United Nations (F.A.O.), Rome Headquarters, March 23, 1994.Id. at Univ. La Sapienza, Rome. March 23, 1994. Organized by Greenpeace (Italy) and the

Dept.of Zoology."La strage dei delfini nel Pacifico Orientale: verso una definitiva soluzione?" Fondazione

Bellerive, Milan, Italy. March 24, 1994. [The tragedy of the dolphins in the eastern Pacific: towards a definitive solution?]

"An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean." Univ. of Milan, Milan, Italy. March 26, 1994. Organized by the Dept. of Biology and Europe Conservation.

Id. at Fisheries Directorate, European Economic Community, Brussels, Belgium, March 25, 1994.

Id. at Greenpeace (France), Paris, France. March 28, 1994.Id. at Environmental Investigation Agency, London, U.K. March 30, 1994."Aspects écologiques du probléme thon-dauphin dans l'Ocean Pacifique tropical oriental."

At ORSTOM-IFREMER Base, Brest, France. April 6, 1994. [Ecological aspects of the tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean]

Id. at Oceanopolis, Brest, France. April 7, 1994."Reducción de la mortalidad incidental de delfines en la pesquería del atún." XIX Reunión

de la Sociedad Mexicana para el Estudio de los Mamíferos Marinos, La Paz, Mayo 18 de 1994.

6th Meeting of the Planning and Co-ordinating Committee of the Marine Mammal Action Plan, United Nations Environment Program. Crowborough, England, June 30 - July 2, 1994.

Invited speaker at the First Meeting of the Parties of the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas. Stockholm, September 26-28, 1994.

Keynote speaker at the International Symposium on the Biology of Marine Mammals in the NE Atlantic, Tromso, Norway, November 29 - December 1, 1994.

"The tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern Pacific Ocean." Univ. of Oslo. December 2, 1994."An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean."

Special Marine Biology Laboratory/Boston University Marine Program Seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., December 6, 1994.

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"International management of marine mammals: some challenges. The case study of the tuna-dolphin issue in the eastern Pacific." Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, December 6, 1994.

Workshop on "Bycatches in fisheries and their impact on the ecosystem." Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 13-14, 1994. Session convener.

"The tuna-dolphin problem." Regional Workshop on Marine Conservation, organized by the Center for Marine Conservation. San Diego, February 10-11, 1995.

"Characteristics, classification and mitigation strategies for bycatch problems." XIV Semana das Pescas dos Azores, Horta, Azores I., March 12-17, 1995.

XI Conference of Latin-American Fisheries Ministers - Latin American Fisheries Organization (OLDEPESCA). August 7-9, 1995. Caracas, Venezuela.

"Bycatch and Fisheries Management" XV Semana das Pescas dos Azores, Horta, Azores I., March 14, 1996.

"Ecology and Fisheries Management: some questions without answers" Univ.Autónoma de Baja California. Facultad de Ciencias Marinas. Ensenada, Mexico, May 23rd, 1996.

"Recent evolution of the tuna-dolphin problem" XXI Reunión Internacional de Mamíferos Marinos, organized by the Sociedad Mexicana para el Estudio de los Mamíferos Marinos, Chetumal, Mexico, April 9-12, 1996.

"An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem." Colegio de la Frontera Sur ECOSUR, Chetumal, Mexico. April 12, 1996.

"The International Management of Marine Mammals: the tuna-dolphin problem and other illustrations." Univ. of Quintana Roo, Mexico, April 12, 1996.

"Dealing with bycatches: practical considerations", and "Ecosystem research and fisheries management: some key questions" presented at the Tuna Symposium organized to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), San Miguel, Azores, June 10-18, 1996.

Presentations of papers: "Dolphins and other bycatches in the eastern Pacific tuna purse-seine fisheries", "Spatial and seasonal distribution of the bycatch in the purse-seine tuna fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean" (with M. García), “Modeling approaches to evaluate bycatch management policies” (with M. García), "Working with fishers to reduce bycatches: the tuna-dolphin problem in the eastern Pacific" (with D. Bratten). Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Symposium: The consequences and management of fisheries bycatch. Dearborn, Michigan, August 26-28, 1996.

“An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem” Point Loma Nazarene College, October 28, 1996.

“Sharks and other bycatch in the fisheries for tunas” presented at the Symposium on managing highly migratory fish of the Pacific Ocean, November 4-6, 1996, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California.

Seminar on “The ecological costs of tuna fishing” and workshop: ”Is dolphin-safe ecologically sound?” at the Monterey Aquarium Workshop, Monterey, California, November 4-6, 1996.

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“An ecological view of the tuna-dolphin problem” at the California and the World Ocean ’97 Conference. San Diego, March 24-27, 1997.

Id. at the March 27, 1997 meeting American Cetacean Society - Orange County Chapter. Costa mesa, California.

“The management of “dolphin-friendly” tuna stocks” Presented at the meeting of the European Directors of Fisheries Research, The Hague, Holland, May 13-17, 1997.

“Bycatch, eco-labeling and management”. Presented at the 48th Annual Tuna Conference. Lake Arrowhead, California, USA, May 19-22, 1997.

Lectures: “Fisheries bycatch: problems and solutions”, and “The interaction of biology and policy in solving the tuna-dolphin problem” in the Conservation Biology and Policy course, and “International issues in marine mammal management” in the Marine Mammals course, both at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. Beaufort, North Carolina, August 12-13, 1997.

Lecture: “The tuna-dolphin problem” at the 1997 West Coast Operation Pathfinder (NOAA-California Sea Grant), Birch Aquarium, Scripps Inst. Of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, August 15, 1997.

Workshop “Ecology and conservation biology of large pelagic fishes.” Islamorada, Florida, USA, October 2-5, 1997. Organized by the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, and sponsored by the Billfish Foundation.

Regional Strategy Development Workshop for the Conservation and Management of Sharks, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA, December 8-9, 1997. Coord: Andy Oliver, WWF.

Seminar: “Recent advances in tuna management in the eastern Pacific Ocean” Semana das Pescas dos Azores, Azores Is., Portugal, March 16-20, 1998.

“Report on the activities of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission related to sharks”, at the Technical Working Group on the Conservation and Management of Sharks. Organized by FAO/Japan in preparation for the FAO Consultation on shark fisheries. Tokyo, April 23-27, 1998.

Panelist. “Creating a sea change conference.” Organized by the World Wildlife Fund. Lisbon, September 14-15, 1998.

Seminar: “The new International Dolphin Conservation Program.” American Cetacean Society, Orange County Chapter. Costa Mesa, September 24, 1998.

Panelist “What data is needed” at the International Conference on Integrated Fisheries Monitoring, Sidney, Australia, February 1-5, 1999.

Panelist in the Public Education Workshop of the Rockfish Forum: “Rockfish for the future,” organized by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Pacific Marine Conservation Council, Monterey, March 26-28, 1999.

Seminar “Ecological trade-offs in the tuna-dolphin issue” at the Conservation Biology Series, Johns Hopkins Marine Laboratory, Stanford University, April 9, 1999.

Keynote address at the Technical Workshop “Fishing salmon selectively” sponsored by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, and Fishing Renewal British Columbia. November 22-24, 1999, Richmond, British Columbia.

Paper “El desarrollo de la pesqueria con FADs en el oceano Pacific Oriental: 1992-1998” presented at the II Foro Nacional del Atun, November 10-12, 1999, Ensenada,

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Baja California, Mexico. Authors C. Lennert and M. Hall.Speaker at the Open Ocean Fisheries Forum. Moss Landing Marine Laboratory-Monterey

Bay Aquarium marine conservation forum series “Oceans in the next millennium: critical issues” February 2, Monterey, CA, USA.

Expert consultation on implications of the precautionary approach: tuna biological and technological research. FAO/ICCAT/IATTC/SPC/IOTC, Phuket, Thailand, March 5-18, 2000.

Alternativas para el manejo de problemas de capturas incidentales. IV Jornadas Nacionales de Ciencias del Mar,Puerto Madryn, Argentina, September 11-15, 2000. This meeting was organized by the Centro Nacional Patagónico and the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco.

Keynote address on Managing Bycatch at the “Innovations in Harvest and Production in the Columbia River Basin Workshop--Planning for Abundance in 2001”. Portland, Oregon, October 4-5, 2000. The workshop was sponsored by the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority, the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, and the Public Power Council.

Presentations at the Technical Session and Panel “Deep rigs as FADs”, Southern Division, American Fisheries Society, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, Feb. 22-25, 2001. “The fishery for tunas associated with flotsam and FADs in the eastern Pacific Ocean”, and “Questions about the association of tunas and other species with floating objects”.

Lecture “Bycatch: problems and solutions“ in the course “Fishing for solutions: issues in marine conservation”, Dept. Anthropological Sciences, Stanford Univ., March 1, 2001.

Lecture “Marine mammal bycatches in fisheries” Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California, USA. November 5, 2001.

Conference “The tuna purse-seine fisheries in the eastern Pacific Ocean.” Sociedad de Pesquerías, Lima, Perú. July 24, 2002.

Seminar: “Fishing for tunas on floating objects: science and management” Instituto del Mar del Perú, El Callao, Perú, July 16,.2002.

Seminar: “The International Agreement for the Dolphin Conservation Program” Instituto del Mar del Perú, El Callao, Perú, July 20, 2002..

Seminar: “The fishery for tunas in the eastern Pacific Ocean: history, ecological and management issues.” Instituto del Mar del Perú, El Callao, Perú, July 16, 2002.

Seminar: “The fishery for tunas in the eastern Pacific Ocean, with emphasis on the international observer program.” Ministerio de Agricultura, La Paz, Bolivia. July 30, 2002..

Board Meeting. National Fisheries Conservation Center. Seattle, Washington, USA. November 15, 2002.

Seminar “Fisheries and bycatch of Pelagic Megafauna” in the Symposium on Conserving Migratory Marine Organisms: Protecting Animals with Ocean-Sized Habitats, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver, Colorado, USA, on February 14-18, 2003

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Presentation on Cetacean Bycatch Network at meeting of the FAO Committee on Fisheries in Rome, Italy, on February 24-28, 2003.

Strategy and performance evaluation for the foundation Sustainable Fisheries Fund, March 19-21, Palo Alto, CA.

Seminar entitled “Bycatches in Eastern Pacific Tuna Fisheries: Conflicts, Priorities, and Challenges” at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, on March 25, 2003.

Seminar Bycatches in Eastern Pacific Tuna Fisheries at a meeting of the Orange County (California) chapter of the American Cetacean Society on March 27, 2003. Attended a meeting organized by Conservation International, “Defying Ocean’s End,” in

Los Cabos, Mexico, on May 29-June 4, 2003.Attended Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) International Users Conference

as invited guests of ESRI on July 7-10, 2003.Presentation on Bycatch at Bycatch Symposium. American Fisheries Society. 133rd Annual

Meeting, Quebec, August 10-14, 2003Meeting of the Stakeholders Council, Marine Stewardshi Council. London, August 28-29.Sea turtle program workshops (Ecuador) September 22 – October 2, 2003.Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council of Seafood Watch at the Monterey Bay Aquarium,

Monterey, California, on October 15-17, 2003. Seminars: The tuna-dolphin problem: recent evolution, and ecosystem considerations.

Hatfield Marine Center, Oregon State Univ., Newport, Oregon. November 5, 2003

Seminar: Sea turtle bycatches in longlines: working with artisanal fishers in Ecuador. Hatfield Marine Center, Oregon State Univ., Newport, Oregon. November 6, 2003

Lecture “Sea turtle bycatches in fisheries” Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California, USA. November 19, 2003

Seminar: The reduction of dolphin mortality in the eastern Pacific: an update. Direccion de Recursos Marinos, Autoridad Maritima de Panama. March 18, 2004.

Seminar “Sea turtle conservation: alternatives to whining”. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz. May 18, 2004.

Class: “Marine mammal bycatches in an ecosystem context”. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, May 19, 2004.

Conference “The role of a regional fisheries organization, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission in the conservation of sea turtles in the eastern Pacific “Commons” at the Marine turtles: a case study of “common property” from the global commons. 10th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property. Oaxaca, Mexico, August 9-13, 2004.

Presentation: A strategy to reduce sea turtle bycatch in the artisanal longline fisheries of the eastern Pacific. At the Scientific Committee meeting of the InterAmerican Sea Turtle Convention. San Jose, Costa Rica, August 24, 2004.

Conference: Pesca de altura y la interferencia con las tortugas marinas. Univ. Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Septiembre 8, 2004. Lima, Peru.

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Seminar: Las tortugas marinas y la pesca de altura. Univ. Nacional Agraria La Molina. Septiembre 8, 2004. Lima, Peru.

Seminar: El Programa Regional de Tortugas Marinas en el Pacifico Oriental. Instituto del Mar del Peru. Septiembre 9, 2004. El Callao, Peru.

Technical Consultation on Sea Turtles Conservation and Fisheries.. FAO. Bangkok, Thailand. November 29 – December 2, 2004

Sea turtle fishers workshops. Culiacan, Mazatlan, Mazunte. January 27-February 6, 2005. Mexico

Sea turtle fishers workshops. Costa Rica Febrero 6-9; Panama, February 9-15, 2005.Juror-- Smart Gear Award. Organized by WWF. Washington D.C. February 15-20, 2005Sea turtles fishers workshops. Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico. February 20 th –

March 19th, 2005.Technical Assistance for Experiments on Mitigation Techniques for sea turtle bycatch.

NOAA, Hawaii. April 10-15, 2005Seminar: The Agreement for the International Dolphin Conservation Program. Fisheries

Committee of the European Parliament Brussels, Belgium, April 26, 2005.Conferences: Approaches to solving fisheries bycatch problems, and Latin America Pacific

research. 3rd International Fishers Forum, Yokohama, Japan, July 25-29, 2005.Pacific-Atlantic Sea Turtle Assessment meeting. La Jolla, CA., August 22-24, 2005.Sea turtle fishers workshops. Nicaragua and Costa Rica, November 2 – 10, 2005 Conferences on: “Experimental design issues and standardization of fisheries data for

bycatch estimation”, and “A model of cooperative work for different sectors of stakeholders to reduce sea turtle bycatch”. 3rd Meeting on Research and Conservation of Sea Turtles on the SouthWest Atlantic. Rio Grande do Sul, November 10-16, 2005.

Workshop on Ecolabeling of Fishery Products, IMARPE, Lima, Peru, November 29, 2005.Sea turtle workshops. Ecuador, Panama, and Guatemala December 1-16, 2005. Seminar: “The tuna-dolphin problem: trade-offs, ecology, and management.” Univ. of

California San Diego. March 1, 2006.Conference: Bycatches in tuna purse seine fisheries. Seafood Expo, Brussels, Belgium. May,

9-12, 2006.Organizer: Technical Workshop of the Regional Sea Turtle Program. Puntarenas, Costa Rica.

June 12-17, 2006.Presentation: “Sea turtles and longlines in the eastern Pacific: A continental-scale program

to reduce incidental mortality. Hall, M.A. + 29 authors.

Program evaluation meetings: Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation, IATTC, Subsecretaria de Recursos Pesqueros de Ecuador, Autoridad de Recursos Marinos, Panama. July 11-20.

Conference of the Parties: InterAmerican Sea Turtle Convention. Mazatlan, September 20-28, 2006.

Presentation: Economic incentives to reduce bycatch. Workshop on Regional Economic Cooperation in the Pacific Fishery for Tropical Tunas. Del Mar, USA. October

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10-12, 2006.Seminar: Bycatch problems and solutions. Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego.

November 2, 2006.Panelist Roundtables: “Seascape of the Patagonian Sea. Zoning and Management of

Biodiversity”. December 5, 2006, and “What are we doing, what must be done, and how can we do it to assess and mitigate the impacts of incidental mortality in fisheries”, December 7, 2006. VI Jornadas Nacionales de Ciencias del Mar, Puerto Madryn, December 4-8, 2006.

Presentation: First South American Fishers Forum to reduce the incidental capture of seabirds. Projeto Albatroz. Guaruja, Brazil. December 12-14, 2006.

Conference. Bycatches in longline fisheries. International Longline Fishers Training Course. Centro de Entrenamiento Pesquero, Paita, Peru. January 26, 2007.

Fishers Workshops: Mazatlan, Manzanillo, Tapachula, Mexico. March 18-23, 2007.Symposium Co-organizer: Tinkerers and tipping points: Invention and difussion of Marine

Conservation Technology, and presentation: “Bycatch solutions: Bringing together the community of creative minds”. AAAS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, February 15-17, 2007.

Member, Expert Panel on the Project: Conservation Status of the Patagonic Sea. Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 24-31, 2007.

Keynote Speech: “Evolving goals, changing structures and increasing significance: Fisheries Observers programs in the XXI Century”. 5th International Fisheries Observers Conference, Victoria, Canada. May 15, 2007.

Workshop on Action Plan for Waved Albagtross. Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, Lima, Peru, June 5-6, 2007.

Workshop on the Eastern Pacific Regional Plan for Conservation International and its partners. Machalilla, Ecuador, June 12-16, 2007.

Workshop on Seabird-Fishery Interactions, Birdlife International, Lima, Peru, June 25, 2007.Special Conference: “Towards ecosystem-based management, even if we don’t know what

it means” 30th Anniversary INIDEP, Mar del Plata, November 20, 2007.Special Conference: Strategies to mitigate incidental capture and mortality of sea turtles.

Reunion Nacional sobre Conservacion de Tortugas Marinas. Veracruz, Mexico, November 27, 2007.

“FADs in the eastern Pacific Ocean” Committee on Marine Debris, ational Academy of Sciences –USA. Univ. California, Irvine, February 20, 2008.

“The sea turtle bycatch mitigation program of the eastern Pacific.” Meeting:Autoridad de Recursos Acuaticos de Panama, IATTC, OFCF Japan. Panama City, February 26, 2008.

Keynote Speech: Worldwide by-catch issues/measures in large pelagic fisheries. MADE (Mitigating Adverse Ecological Impacts of open ocean fisheries) Kick-off meeting. Genoa, Italy, May 12-14, 2008.

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Attended most annual meetings of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, 1984-.Participated in all stages of preparation and development of the Panama Declaration, La

Jolla Agreement, and the Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program.

Attended and organized meetings of the International Review Panel of the International Dolphin Conservation Program.

Attended meetings of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission as a member.

Attended meetings of the United Nations Environment Program - Marine Mammal Action Plan, as a member of the Planning and Coordinating Committee.

Attended meetings of the Scientific Committee of the InterAmerican Sea Turtle Convention, San Jose September 2004, 2006.

Attended 1st and 2nd meeting of the Working Group on Waved Albatross from ACAP (Agreement for the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels).

Attended meetings or gave conferences/seminars/courses in the following countries:

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, French Polynesia, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Martinique(France), México, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panamá, Perú, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam.

ORGANIZATION OF COURSES/CONFERENCES:

-Organized 5 intensive international 2-week courses (1986 - 1988) on the Biology and Ecology of Marine Mammals and on Methods for the Estimation of Abundance of Marine Mammals. Taught several sections of the Methods course dealing with sampling design, estimation of incidental mortality, variance estimation, simulation models and their use in population dynamics studies, estimation of abundance based on catch-per-unit of effort changes.

The courses were sponsored by the Marine Mammal Action Plan of the United Nations Environment Program. Locations: Cumana (Venezuela), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Ushuaia (Argentina), Cabo Polonio (Uruguay) and La Paz (Mexico). 130 researchers and advanced students from Latin America attended the courses.

-Organized several training courses for observers in different nations between 1984 and 2004.

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-Short course on Ecology and Fisheries, covering: Ecological impacts of fishing operations, Strategies to reduce incidental catches, and Ecological theory and fisheries management. Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Univ. Autónoma de Baja California. Ensenada, Mexico, January 30-31, 1995.

-Short course on “Monitoring of incidental mortality, techniques for data collection and estimation of abundance of Marine Mammals” organized by the Comisión Permanente del Pacífico Sur and the United Nations Environment Program. Guayaquil, Ecuador, March 4-7, 1997.

-Workshop to train researchers interested in the organization of workshops with fishers to reduce bycatches of sea turtles. 138 attendeed from over 40 nations. 24th Sea Turtle Symposium, San Jose, Costa Rica. February 28, 2004.

1st Technical meeting of the Regional Sea turtle Program of the eastern Pacific. Puntarenas, July 2006.

2nd Technical meeting of the Regional Sea turtle Program of the eastern Pacific. Puntarenas, November 2007

RESEARCH CRUISES2006 Experiments to reduce sea turtle bycatches in longline vessels

A. Trip in a Peruvian longliner Paita, January 3-27.B. Trip in an Ecuadorian longliner Manta, February 10-

22.2007 Experiment: trip in an Ecuadorian longliner Manta January 4 –

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FISHERS WORKSHOPS:

At the invitation of the Subsecretaria de Recursos Pesqueros del Ecuador (SRPE), I coordinated a series of workshops on reducing the incidental mortality of sea turtles, starting in September 2003. They developed into a full program with permanent staff in 8 countries, and by now, well over 100 workshops have been organized throughout the Pacific coast of LatinAmerica.

The contents of the workshops are as follows: The conservation concerns about sea turtles are explained, and the characteristics of the species present in those waters and their geographic distributions are discussed. The technical sections of the workshops cover the proposal to develop a voluntary program to test alternative hooks that cause fewer hookings, and when they hook, they do it in locations that facilitate hook removal, and cause lighter injuries to the turtles. We present recent results from the region, and discuss the proceudres used to release turtles. Instruments to remove hooks are distributed for free. The use of dipnets, dehookers, and line cutters to release the turtles is recommended, and the techniques to use them are shown to the attendees. A voluntary observer program is another component of the program. Currently this program is functional in Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico, cooperating with the artisanal longline fishers to facilitate a change of hooks that could reduce sea turtle bycatch, without negative effects on the target catches. The program is funded by a coalition of organizations covering a broad spectrum of interests: the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, NOAA (US), the Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation of Japan, WWF (International, US, Peru, Colombia, CentroAmerica, and Mexico), Defenders of Wildlife (Mexico), The Ocean Conservancy, and many national conservation groups, artisanal fishers cooperatives and federations, industry organizations, etc. Of course, the Fisheries authorities of each country participate and cooperate in the activities according to their possibilities. Details of the program can be found at the following web sites:

http://www.wpcouncil.org/protected/Documents/Largacha%20et%20al_2005_Ecuador%20first%20year%20results.pdf

http://www.wpcouncil.org/protected/Documents/Hall%20et%20al.%20(2006).pdf

Most recent workshops: 2008 -- February 5, Caleta de Campos, February 7, Puerto Angel, February 10 Punta Maldonado, all in Mexico (Michoacan, Oaxaca, Guerrero).

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