BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Pakop is a very experienced Manager, technical expert and career professional in the fisheries sector. He has dedicated over 33 years of his career to this sector, from serving as an Assistant Fisheries Extension Officer with the then Department of Fisheries & Marine Resources in the late 1980s, to his current role as the Deputy Managing Director, Technical & Operations. In this role he oversees NFA’s mandated functions in Fisheries Management; Aquaculture & Inland Fisheries; Monitoring, Control & Surveillance; Licensing & Data Management and Provincial Support & Industry Development.

He has also worked regionally and spent five years with the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) as a Policy Advisor in Monitoring Control and Surveillance and then Director in Fisheries Operations. 

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