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Laurenne Schiller: Taking stock of fisheries

August 16, 2018

Tuna be or not tuna be? That is the question. It’s also the name of Laurenne Schiller’s Masters thesis on bycatch in industrial tuna fisheries. She’s a research analyst with Ocean Wise and a passionate scientist studying fisheries around the world and their management. She’s also the lead author on a new paper in Science Advances journal which found that the fish caught in the high seas is not contributing to issues of global food security. While her love of the ocean was born at a young age, it wasn’t until she was doing her undergraduate degree when she came across a certain book that her eyes were opened to the impacts of and overfishing on our ocean.