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Dave Gershman leads The Pew Charitable Trusts’ conservation advocacy with Pacific regional fisheries management organizations. Gershman previously supported Pew’s global tuna conservation project, with a focus on the western Pacific.

Gershman has been working in fisheries policy and advocacy for more than a decade. Before pursuing a career in environmental policy, he worked as a journalist at several newspapers in Massachusetts and Michigan and was a Knauss Marine Policy Sea Grant fellow at the U.S. Department of State. He is currently a member of a panel advising the United States government on issues related to the management of tunas, sharks and billfishes in the western and central Pacific.

Gershman holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Brandeis University and a master’s degree in environmental policy and planning from the University of Michigan.

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