https://oceanexpert.net/expert/Shoaib

ORCID : 29714

MPHIL

Operational Support (technical)

Fisheries, Aquaculture

• Coordinator Marine Program - Coordinating, reporting, and supporting WWF Ocean and cross-cutting of Wildlife practices on marine conservation’s Areas of Collective Action and Innovations (ACAI) of coastal communities and initiatives of sharks and rays, marine cetaceans, marine turtles, ghost nets, and fisheries bycatch of CITES-listed marine wildlife species.
  
• Coordinator for IOSEA Turtle MoU of CMS - Coordinating and reporting the marine turtle conservation work from WWF-Pakistan, with the national stakeholders of marine turtles, marine pollution including ghost gear and plastic pollution drives, working with fisher communities on the reducing bycatch of the marine turtles from fisheries to CMS- Marine Turtle Task Force (MTTF) of the Indian Ocean–South-East Asian (IOSEA) Marine Turtle memorandum of understanding (MoU).
• Coordinator- Arabian Sea Humpback Whale Network (ASHWN) - Coordinating and reporting on the conservation of cetaceans from Pakistan on the bycatch, safe releases, and stranding of the small cetaceans and large cetaceans, particularly Arabian Humpback whales, from the in-water or coastline of Pakistan and coordinating with the network of the fisher on the reporting of the sighting, bycatch, or stranding of the fishermen Reporting country updates on the overall cetacean (whales, dolphins, porpoise) sightings, bycatch, and stranding to ASHWN for reporting to International Whaling Commission meetings.
  
• Manage the successful implementation and reporting of the following projects:

1. Project: Filling the knowledge gap around the cetacean population, entanglement, and mortality associated with small-scale fisheries in Pakistan
2. Project: Better the devil you know: addressing key data gaps for effective management of devil rays in the Indian Ocean
3. Project: Sustainable Fisheries Entrepreneurship Project, Ibrahim Hyderi and Rehri, District Malir, Karachi.
   

Arabian Sea
Indian Ocean

• Work: Task and result-oriented, flexible & adaptable, communication and coordination, project management, planning and designing fisheries surveys, mobilization, and fisher community meetings, collaboration and knowledge sharing. 
• Software: Microsoft Office™ tools​ (MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel), intermediate level of ArcGIS, FishStatJ software, Dr Depth bathymetry software, 6- series’ Sonde, CTD Cast Away device, shellcatch web portal, wildlife technology tag portal, and Google earth.

English

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