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Biography of Hashali Hamukuaya

Dr. Hashali Hamukuaya is the first Executive Secretary of South East Atlantic Fisheries Organization (SEAFO)(see www.seafo.org), appointed in March 2005. SEAFO is a regional fisheries management organization responsible for the long-term conservation and sustainable use of living marine resources in the high seas in southeast Atlantic Ocean. He comes to SEAFO with considerable and practical experience in fisheries management, fisheries sciences, international and regional fisheries relations. Between 1991 and 1998 he worked as a fishery biologist including as a Head of the Demersal Research Section responsible for, among others, hake fish resources research at the National Marine Information and Research Center (NatMIRC) in Swakopmund, Namibia. From 1998 to 2001 he served as a Deputy Director in the Directorate of Resource Management, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia, and was responsible, inter alia, for the regional and international fisheries initiatives or arrangements including as a Contact Point for Southern African Development Community (SADC) marine fisheries sector; Namibian Commissioner to the International Commission for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). During the same period, he also served as a member of the Nansen Program Steering Committee for Namibia as well as a member of the Benguela Environment Fisheries Interactions and Training Program (BENEFIT). He was a member of the SEAFO Convention and SADC Fisheries Protocol negotiating teams. Prior to joining SEAFO, he was a Director of the Activity Center for Living Marine Resources under the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) Program where he was responsible for coordinating dozens of regional projects on living marine resources in Angola, Namibia and South Africa. Hashali completed his undergraduate degree in Biology from Dillard University, New Orleans in 1988 and received a Master of Science degree in marine environment from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1991. In 2000 he completed his doctoral studies in zoology at University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.