Laurent Dagorn
Senior Scientist, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

A French senior scientist working for the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (France), Laurent Dagorn has published about 60 scientific papers, of which more than half were in peer-reviewed international journals. He has been working on fish aggregating devices (FADs), with a special emphasis on the behaviour of fish at these FADs, for about 20 years. He has spent about 13 years in the Pacific (French Polynesia, Hawaii, California) and Indian (Seychelles, La Réunion) oceans, collaborating with various scientific organisations and is currently working in the Seychelles.

After completing the coordination of a FP5 European Union project (FADIO) on the behaviour of fish at drifting FADs in 2006, Laurent Dagorn is currently the coordinator of a major FP7 EU funded project (MADE, www.made-project.eu) dealing with the mitigation of adverse ecological impacts of open ocean fisheries (tuna purse seiners and longliners) in the Indian ocean, Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation. Laurent Dagorn graduated at the French “Grande Ecole” INA-PG in Paris (prestige university-level college), then completed a PhD in Fisheries Science (ENSA Rennes), and passed his accreditation diploma to supervise research (“Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” HDR), a French diploma giving official recognition to high scientific studies of senior scientists.

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