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| Title | Fisheries Scientist (Bioeconomic Modeller) |
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FISHERIES SCIENTIST (BIOECONOMIC MODELLER)
BACKGROUND
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is an international organisation that provides technical and policy advice and assistance, training and research services to its Pacific Island members. SPC works in a wide range of sectors with the aim of achieving three development outcomes – sustainable economic development, sustainable natural resource management and development, and sustainable human and social development.
SPC’s headquarters are in Noumea, New Caledonia. It has regional offices in Suva, Fiji Islands, and Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and a country office in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Additional information on SPC can be found on its website: www.spc.int.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Fisheries Scientist (Bioeconomic Modeller) will develop and apply models to support the provision of advice on regional tuna fisheries to estimate the economic impacts of changing economic, environmental and management conditions in the fishery on Pacific members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), as part of the Scientific Support for the Management of Coastal and Oceanic Fisheries in the Pacific Islands Region project (SciCOFish, oceanic component). This work will be undertaken jointly with economists from our sister agency, the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA).
The position encompasses the following major functions or key result areas:
1. Model development
· Use fine scale data collected from commercial logsheets and vessel monitoring systems to develop models of fleet dynamics for the longline and purse-seine fleets that operate in the western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO). These models will be used to generate spatial patterns of fishing effort to be used in new or existing population dynamics models, e.g., MULTIFAN-CL (www.multifan-cl.org) and SEAPODYM (www.spc.int/oceanfish/en/ofpsection/ema/ecosystem-a-multispecies-modelling).
2. Bioeconomic analysis
· In collaboration with FFA, conduct regional bioeconomic analyses to estimate the economic impact of changing economic, environmental and management conditions in the fishery on Pacific ACP countries. This will involve the use of the models developed in (1) above.
· Provide support to the FFA-led bioeconomic analysis of the implications of different management options for the WCPO tuna fisheries. This will be primarily based on the multi-species, multi-gear, and spatially disaggregated stock projections using MULTIFAN-CL.
· Develop approaches to characterise the uncertainty in potential outcomes at the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) level.
3. Communication
· Provide country-specific reports of the distribution of economic benefits/losses among Pacific ACP countries from various bioeconomic modelling analyses.
· Produce scientific papers of analyses undertaken in (1) above.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
Ø Relevant tertiary qualification, preferably at postgraduate level, in population dynamics, fisheries science, or natural resource management.
Ø Thorough knowledge of fisheries models or other population dynamics models, in particular those used in the analysis of foraging behaviour (that could be related to modelling fleet dynamics).
Ø Knowledge and/or experience in modelling fishing effort dynamics or using similar approaches in other systems.
Ø Demonstrated analytical and research capabilities.
Ø Skills in computer-based data analysis, statistics and modelling, including skills in programming in R, AD Model Builder and/or C++.
Ø Excellent verbal and written presentation and communications skills in English, both at a technical level and in the preparation of information for the general public.
Ø Proven ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary and/or multicultural team.
Ø Ability to meet project deadlines, often under difficult circumstances
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