We're Hiring: Fisheries Manager
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are a globally focused fisheries organization committed to responsible, sustainable, and commercially viable management of aquatic resources. Our work emphasizes fisheries conservation, resource assessment, regulatory compliance, stakeholder collaboration, operational efficiency, seafood quality, and long-term ecosystem sustainability.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Fisheries Manager to lead fisheries management activities, resource planning, stock assessment, fishing operations, conservation programs, regulatory compliance, stakeholder engagement, data management, and sustainable utilization of aquatic resources.
The successful candidate will combine fisheries science and operational expertise with strong leadership, analytical capability, environmental awareness, and practical knowledge of sustainable fisheries management.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement fisheries management strategies aligned with sustainability and organizational objectives.
- Manage commercial, community, research, or conservation-oriented fisheries programs as applicable.
- Develop annual and seasonal fisheries plans based on stock status, environmental conditions, regulations, and market requirements.
- Monitor fish stocks, catch levels, fishing effort, biomass, recruitment, and population trends.
- Coordinate stock assessments, fisheries surveys, sampling programs, and biological monitoring.
- Analyze catch, effort, mortality, age, size, maturity, recruitment, and distribution data.
- Work with fisheries scientists and technical specialists to evaluate stock health and sustainable harvest levels.
- Establish catch limits, quotas, effort controls, seasonal restrictions, or other management measures where applicable.
- Monitor fishing activities to ensure compliance with approved management plans and regulations.
- Coordinate vessel operations, fishing schedules, landing activities, and resource allocation where applicable.
- Monitor fishing gear, methods, vessel practices, and operational performance.
- Promote responsible fishing practices that minimize bycatch, habitat damage, and unwanted mortality.
- Develop and implement bycatch-reduction and habitat-protection measures.
- Establish monitoring, control, and surveillance procedures for fisheries activities.
- Maintain accurate catch documentation, landing records, vessel records, licenses, permits, and fisheries databases.
- Coordinate onboard, dockside, electronic, or remote monitoring programs where applicable.
- Investigate suspected illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing activities and coordinate appropriate escalation.
- Ensure compliance with fisheries legislation, conservation requirements, licensing conditions, environmental standards, and reporting obligations.
- Coordinate fisheries research programs with universities, government agencies, laboratories, consultants, and research institutions.
- Evaluate environmental factors affecting fisheries productivity, including temperature, salinity, habitat conditions, weather, and ecosystem changes.
- Assess the potential effects of climate variability and climate change on fish stocks and fishing operations.
- Support habitat restoration, marine conservation, protected-area, and ecosystem-management initiatives.
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement with fishing communities, vessel operators, regulators, seafood buyers, conservation groups, and industry associations.
- Communicate fisheries-management requirements and technical findings clearly to stakeholders and operational teams.
- Develop stakeholder consultation processes for new management measures and conservation initiatives.
- Manage fisheries-related budgets, contracts, procurement, consultants, and operational resources.
- Lead fisheries officers, field teams, observers, researchers, technicians, and contractors.
- Develop workforce schedules, training programs, field procedures, and performance standards.
- Ensure field personnel follow safety, environmental, sampling, and data-quality procedures.
- Manage fisheries survey equipment, monitoring systems, vessels, vehicles, sampling tools, and technical assets.
- Establish preventive-maintenance programs for fisheries equipment and operational assets.
- Develop emergency procedures for environmental incidents, extreme weather, vessel incidents, mass mortality events, and other fisheries-related risks.
- Prepare management reports covering stock status, catches, effort, compliance, conservation performance, operational activities, and emerging risks.
- Maintain accurate fisheries databases, GIS records, maps, scientific datasets, and management documentation.
- Use GIS, remote sensing, digital monitoring, statistical tools, and fisheries-management technologies to improve decision-making.
- Evaluate new technologies for electronic monitoring, vessel tracking, stock assessment, data collection, and fisheries enforcement.
- Conduct regular reviews of fisheries performance and recommend corrective or preventive actions.
- Promote sustainable seafood practices and responsible supply-chain management.
- Support certification, traceability, sustainability assessments, and customer or market requirements where applicable.
- Lead continuous-improvement initiatives to strengthen resource conservation, operational efficiency, data quality, compliance, and long-term fisheries sustainability.
Key Performance Indicators
- Fish-stock health and biomass indicators.
- Sustainable catch performance.
- Catch and effort against approved limits.
- Recruitment and population trends.
- Stock-assessment accuracy and completion.
- Fisheries survey completion rates.
- Catch reporting accuracy.
- Data completeness and quality.
- Bycatch rates.
- Discard and unwanted-mortality rates.
- Habitat-impact indicators.
- Fisheries compliance rate.
- Illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing incidents.
- Monitoring and surveillance coverage.
- Vessel and license compliance.
- Stakeholder satisfaction.
- Conservation-program performance.
- Fisheries research delivery.
- Regulatory reporting accuracy and timeliness.
- Seafood traceability performance.
- Operational cost per management activity.
- Field-team productivity.
- Equipment availability.
- Worker safety performance.
- Environmental incident frequency.
- Budget adherence.
- Sustainability and certification performance.
- Continuous-improvement outcomes.
Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate should have substantial experience in fisheries management, fisheries science, marine resource management, aquatic resource conservation, commercial fisheries, or a related field, preferably within government, commercial, research, conservation, or international fisheries environments.
The candidate should demonstrate:
- Strong knowledge of fisheries management principles and sustainable resource utilization.
- Understanding of fish biology, population dynamics, stock assessment, and fisheries ecology.
- Experience managing fisheries programs, field operations, surveys, or commercial fishing activities.
- Knowledge of fisheries regulations, licensing, conservation measures, and compliance frameworks.
- Experience with fisheries data collection, statistical analysis, GIS, and resource-monitoring systems.
- Understanding of bycatch reduction, habitat protection, and ecosystem-based fisheries management.
- Strong stakeholder-management and consultation skills.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and field personnel.
- Strong budgeting, procurement, project-management, and operational-planning capabilities.
- Ability to interpret scientific information and translate it into practical management decisions.
- Familiarity with vessel monitoring, electronic monitoring, remote sensing, or fisheries technology.
- Strong understanding of environmental sustainability and climate-related fisheries risks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work effectively with regulators, scientists, fishing communities, commercial operators, and conservation organizations.
- A science-based, commercially aware, sustainability-focused, and continuous-improvement mindset.