Lyall Bellquist

Fisheries Scientist
Marine
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Lyall is a Senior Fisheries Scientist with the California Oceans Program at The Nature Conservancy, and is based in San Diego at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Lyall is an avid fisherman, diver, and outdoorsman whose passion for understanding ocean ecosystems led him to a lifelong career in marine science. Lyall’s research is founded in science-industry-agency collaborations with a specific focus on the application of fisheries management models to improve long-term health of ocean ecosystems,fisheries, and fishing communities, particularly in the context of extreme environmental events as a function of climate change.

Prior to working for the Conservancy, Lyall completed a B.S. in Aquatic Biology at the University of California Santa Barbara, M.S. in Marine Biology at CSU Long Beach, Ph.D. in Marine Biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California.

Research websites: www.cooperativefishtagging.org, www.lajollaarray.org, and www.stattn.org

What Lyall is working on now:

Currently, Lyall is leading projects focused on 1) Fishery Disasters in the U.S., 2) climate change impacts to west coast fisheries from Mexico to Alaska, 3) experimentation as a toolfor adaptive fisheries management, 4) management solutionsto minimize whale entanglementsand bycatchin Pacific fisheries, and 5) novel tools and approaches to improve nature and people outcomes in data limited fisheries.