Paul van Zwieten
Wageningen University, Aquaculture & Fisheries Group

Paul van Zwieten is assistant professor in fisheries management working with the Aquaculture and Fisheries Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is interested in information needs to manage changes in natural fish communities caused by fisheries, habitat change and eutrophication. He focuses on the knowledge base and evaluative capacity to assess multispecies and multigear fisheries, particularly in data-poor environments.

Paul van Zwieten studies the interaction between fishing and fish communities in tropical freshwater and marine systems. Presently he works on issues around effort allocation and balanced harvesting patterns in large freshwater lakes, including Lake Victoria, and he is involved in the BESTTuna program. This is a large research program focusing on incentives to manage tuna fisheries in the Western Pacific. It is carried out by 10 PhD students and funded by Wageningen University. The program involves University partners in Indonesia, the Philippines and Western Pacific as well as NGOs, private companies and research institutions working on tuna fisheries in the region (http://www.besttuna.wur.nl/UK).















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