Alain Fonteneau
Scientist, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement IRD

Dr. Alain Fonteneau, is a French scientist at the Institut de Recherches pour le Développement (ex ORSTOM) and he has been working on tuna and billfish biology and stock assessment since the early seventies. 

His research has been mainly targeting tropical tunas, but also temperate species and billfishes, through a comparative ecosystem approach that has been targeting the pelagic oceans world wide. These analysis of the tuna stocks and fisheries world wide are conducted covering the entire period 1950 to now, based on a standardized world data base of all catch and effort data available.

Dr. Fonteneau is presently working in Sète, France, in the THETIS IRD research program, and is carrying out comparative analysis and modeling of world tuna fisheries by fishing gear, and environmental interactions in the pelagic ecosystems.

Dr. Fonteneau has actively participated various times to the scientific committees or bodies of the 5 present tuna RFMOs, and he has published various papers on many of these fisheries problems.

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