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About Vanessa<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” thickness=”1″ up=”15″ down=”0″][vc_column_text]Growing up in the Swiss mountains, the ocean was a distant dream for me until I took my first gulp of Mediterranean seawater at age nine. I have since lived in Australia, Indonesia, Palau, and New Caledonia, to study and work on issues related to tropical fisheries and anthropogenic impacts on large marine predators, including fisheries bycatch, aerial and boat-based marine megafauna surveys, shark fisheries and fishing livelihoods.<\/p>\n

I realized early on that the natural sciences alone didn\u2019t allow me to get to the bottom of the issues I wanted to pursue with my studies. In my PhD research I combined methods from the natural and social sciences to study the eastern Indonesian shark fishery. This experience of combining different disciplinary approaches landed me on a continuing journey of exploring novel solutions to management and conservation questions in coastal and oceanic fisheries<\/u>.<\/p>\n

After joining CRRF in 2016, I worked on various consultancies throughout the Micronesia\/SE Asia region while writing up my PhD and raising my first (human) baby. Through my GEF-SGP funded project on dugongs<\/u> <\/a>I was able to return to the joy of doing fieldwork and discover the rewards of public science outreach. Later, working in a government agency as fisheries scientist, I was immersed in the realities of natural resource management in a small Pacific Island nation. Simultaneously, this work exposed me to regional fisheries science and management bodies, which led to my first postdoc.<\/p>\n

My current work focuses on bycatch in oceanic fisheries<\/u> targeting tuna. Funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation, this project aims to establish a baseline of bycatch species caught in Palau\u2019s tuna longline fishery over the past decade. This lays a foundation for future performance assessments of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS) – fully implemented on 1st January 2020 – and to estimate the expected protective effect of the PNMS on bycatch species.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”]View my CV<\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” background_color=”#ffffff” css=”.vc_custom_1492038550656{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”15753″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1491176500169{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Contact details<\/h3>\n

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\nCoral Reef Research Foundation
\nPO Box 1765
\nKoror, 96940
\nRepublic of Palau[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Email<\/strong>
\nvanessa.jaiteh@outlook.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Skype<\/strong>
\nvanessa.flora.jaiteh[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Phone
\n<\/strong>+680 488 5255 (Office)
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Publications and downloads<\/h3>\n

Vanessa\u2019s publications can be found on her\u00a0ResearchGate profile<\/a>\u00a0and on Academia<\/a>. Please email<\/a> for copies of papers that cannot be accessed from these links.<\/p>\n

Original articles<\/strong><\/p>\n