Webinars Fisheries May 21, 2026 2 min read

Webinar | How to Become a Marine Conservationist

How to find your niche, break into the field, and build a career protecting our oceans Working in marine conservation is one of the most meaningful careers on the planet — but many aspiring conservationists don’t know where to start, which role fits them, or how to become competitive for jobs. In this free live

Dr Nick Askew
Interviews Scientist June 16, 2022 8 min read

Manon Fontaine, from arts to wildlife conservation

After a long and successful career in arts design, Manon Fontaine changed the brushes and the puppets to binoculars and animals’ tags. Keep reading if you want to know why and how an artist in her 40s managed to turned into an international all-round wildlife conservationist. Who is Manon Fontaine? I am a very curious,

José Francisco Bergua Canudo
Interviews Scientist March 7, 2022 5 min read

Going with the flow, for a career in fish conservation

While studying Zoology at a Galway university, Dr Tara Gallagher had no endgame in mind. She certainly hadn’t envisaged working in the area of fish conservation. Unlike some of her colleagues who are keen anglers, she wasn’t initially drawn to a career in this area. In her own words, she “fell into it.” Fortunately, Tara

Karen Nolan
Scientist Interviews December 28, 2021 7 min read

A biologist dives deep into Canada’s salmon-bearing watersheds

Misty MacDuffee is a biologist and program director with the Wild Salmon Program of British Columbia, Canada’s Raincoast Conservation Foundation. She focuses on fisheries ecology in salmon ecosystems; for the past 15 years she has led diverse studies examining the salmon of the BC coast, including field, lab, technical, and conservation evaluation. With the knowledge

Nicole Van Zutphen
Scientist Podcasts October 26, 2020 31 min read

Podcast: Dr Yemi Oloruntuyi | Marine Stewardship Council

Have you ever picked up a can of fish in the supermarket and wondered what the MSC certified symbol actually means for the tuna in the can? Most of us know it means the fish is from sustainable stocks. But how is this judged and verified and how did the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) manage

Dr Nick Askew
Interviews Senior Level December 19, 2017 5 min read

What’s it like to work in European fisheries policy?

Amelie Knapp is a Policy Officer at European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. Here she tells us what it’s like to work on fisheries policy within the European Union, and she shares her career secrets. What work do you do? I work to ensure that EU Member States collect scientific data on their fisheries.

Dr Nick Askew