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Short CV

Ana Marçalo graduated in General Biology at the University of Massachusetts Darthmouth, USA. While in the US she obtained the fisheries observer certification from NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Services and became a fisheries observer for all types of gears. Back to Portugal, she worked as a fisheries observer onboard purse seiners and also as a researcher at IPMA (Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere) conducting work on capturing, transporting and acclimating sardines in captivity for laboratory experiments. She obtained her PhD in 2009 from the Universidade do Algarve with the thesis untitled “Sardine (Sardina pilchardus) delayed mortality associated with purse seine slipping”. As a post-doc fellow at CESAM-University of Aveiro, she studied the interaction of cetaceans and other protected species (i.e. marine turtles) with fisheries along the Portuguese mainland coast. At that time, she also coordinated the cetacean and sea turtle local stranding network operating along the Algarve coast and was in charge of small cetacean diet analysis and mitigation trials to decrease conflicts between fisheries and cetaceans in the area. She participated in several research projects in collaboration with public and private entities mainly related with: acclimating sardines in captivity for research purposes, studying methods to decrease purse seine discards and delayed mortality of pelagic fish, cetacean interactions with Portuguese fisheries and mitigation to reduce bycatch. Since 2010 she is the Portuguese participant at the ICES Working Group on Bycatch of Protected Species (WGBYC). Currently she is a post doc researcher at CCMAR being a team member in the Project MINOUW in the case study related to the “Algarve purse seine”.

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