Paul van Zwieten

Paul A.M. van Zwieten is Assistant Professor of Fisheries Management at the Aquaculture and Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, with long-term experience in working in small-scale freshwater and marine fisheries in tropical regions in Africa and South-East Asia. His main research interest is in data and information requirements to evaluate fisheries resource use in data poor situations, spatial use of fisheries resources (fishing effort allocation) and fishing patterns (balanced harvesting). He currently works together with nutritionists, fisheries, ecologists, social scientist and food safety specialists from Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda on the Small Fish and Food Security project.  Contact: paul.vanzwieten@wur.nl