Summary: Save the planet by becoming an environmentalist. Find out how to get a job in marine conservation in this environmental career video from a fisheries economist.
Koyel Mandal is a fisheries economist with a non-profit group called Ocean Conservancy, based in Washington, D.C. They specialize in the research and advocacy of maintaining our...read more
A great way to save the planet is to get involved in a marine conservation career. The featured expert in this series is a fisheries economist with the Ocean Conservancy. He discusses the qualifications for becoming a fisheries economist, such as knowledge of property rights and an advanced degree in economics. Start as a researcher at a fisheries, and work up to being an economist. The job involves a good deal of traveling, with trips to both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. A job in marine conservation will also require lobbying skills to be used when attempting to get fishing policies changed. Get involved in ocean environmentalism by becoming a consultant or by starting a non-profit organization.
"My name is Koyel Mandal. I'm a fisheries economist with a non-profit group, called Ocean Conservancy. We're a national non-profit organization, and we work for wild healthy oceans. We have offices, we're headquartered in Washington, D.C. And, we have offices from the Pacific, to the Gulf of Mexico, and on the east coast. In our industry, it all depends on what you want to do. I mean, if you want to stick to the sector and work in the environmental sector through out your career, then, you could gain experience and become an expert in the field. And, you can either raise up the ladder in the organization, or you can move to bigger organizations, multi-ladder organizations, like the World Bank, United Nations. Those are some current opportunities that a lot of people go for, or, when you gain experience, you're also hired as analysts, as advisers to different senators and congressman when they work on fisheries policies, environmental policy, they would hire you as experts and advisers in the field. So, it really depends on your motivations, what, where you want to take your career. Some people go for consulting, private consulting. They leave the sector and they open their own consulting firms. So, again, you can keep working in the sector, and go where you want, or you can switch directions, and use the experience you got and apply it to some other profession."
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