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- Country: New Caledonia
Resumé
Valérie Allain is a fisheries research scientist at the Pacific Community (SPC). Her domains of expertise include fish biology and ecology, ecosystem functioning, fisheries, and climate change impact. After studying the deep-sea fish populations exploited by trawl fisheries in the north-east Atlantic, she moved to the Pacific in 2000 where she has spent the last 19 years working on the tuna fisheries of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. Her work has particularly focused on understanding the tuna ecosystem through studies of the trophic interactions between fish species as well as an analysis of the various compartments of this ecosystem, from primary producers to top predators. She has also studied the impact of seamounts on tuna catches, tuna fisheries bycatches, and tuna movement and ecosystem organization through biological markers such as mercury and stable isotopes.
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