Episode 97: Claudio Castillo-Jordán (Pacific Community)

Craig's interview guest in this episode is Claudio Castillo-Jordán who is currently a fisheries scientist with the Oceanic Fisheries Program of the Pacific Community, working on the stock assessment of tuna stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, and he is based in Noumea, New Caledonia. Claudio’s connections with Hobart and Tasmania are very strong. In 2016 he completed a PhD at the University of Tasmania and CSIRO, demonstrating connections in recruitment patterns across southern hemisphere fish stocks related to differing global and local environmental signals. You will hear Claudio relate his very interesting career path to date, from his early interest in engineering in his home country of Chile and with minimal contact with fish, to then finding himself immersed in fish biology with anchovies and sardines.  In addition to his earlier years in Tasmania he also spent time as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. He qualifies as a highly migratory species!