Alejandro Anganuzzi Joins Tuna Sustainability Coalition

Alejandro Anganuzzi Joins Scientific Advisory Committee For Tuna Sustainability Coalition

Mr. Anganuzzi brings nearly three decades of experience to International Seafood Sustainability Foundation's group of expert conservation representatives

Washington, DC - 16 May 2013 -The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) announced today that Alejandro Anganuzzi has joined the organization's Scientific Advisory Committee currently chaired by Dr. Victor Restrepo. Anganuzzi has experience working on staff with two regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) in both scientific and organizational capacities. Mr. Anganuzzi will replace Dr. Iago Mosqueira on the committee.

"ISSF's Scientific Advisory Committee is eager and honored to add Alejandro Anganuzzi to the team," said Dr. Victor Restrepo, Chair of the ISSF Scientific Advisory Committee. "Alejandro's knowledge of RFMO operational structures and inner workings combined with his scientific expertise will be invaluable to the Committee. It will help us truly understand the challenges we face and to better find and also implement sustainable solutions." 

Dr. Restrepo added, "Dr. Iago Mosqueira's expertise in simulation analyses and stock assessment has been extremely influential for the work of the science committee, particularly for several of the technical workshops that we have held."

For the past nine years, until earlier this year, Alejandro Anganuzzi served as the Executive Secretary of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) based in Victoria, Seychelles. In his role as Executive Secretary of the Commission, Anganuzzi had overall responsibility for planning, coordination and administration of the Secretariat activities in accordance with the agreements and decisions of the members of the Commission, including scientific and compliance activities.

From 1998 until 2003, Mr. Anganuzzi served as the Deputy Secretary and Science Manager for the IOTC. While in this role, he supervised the technical activities of the Secretariat, including capacity building in data collection, database development, data analysis, production of publications in various formats, and development of software. He coordinated the support to meetings of the IOTC Working Parties and Scientific Committee, including scientific advice as requested and assisted in the organization of the Commission and the Scientific Committee meetings.

Prior to his work at the IOTC, Mr. Anganuzzi also worked for the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), from 1984 to 1997, where, among other subjects, he worked on the estimation of abundance of dolphin populations, and on modeling of the dynamics of tuna fisheries in the eastern Pacific Ocean. 

About the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF)

The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) is a global coalition of scientists, the tuna industry and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world's leading conservation organization, promoting science-based initiatives for the long-term conservation and sustainable use of tuna stocks, reducing bycatch and promoting ecosystem health. To learn more, visit their website at iss-foundation.org.

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