Aaron McNevin is WWF’s Global Network Lead for Aquaculture. Aaron started his career farming perchids, esocids and salmonids. In 2005, he began at WWF developing environmental and social standards for responsible aquaculture through a series of multi-stakeholder roundtables (Aquaculture Dialogues). These standards allowed for the formation of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC). Aaron took a hiatus from WWF to manage an undergraduate program in fisheries science and aquaculture, teaching courses from limnology to static and flowing water fish culture to quantitative techniques in fish population assesments. Aaron spends much of his time in the tropics where he focuses on accountability in the global aquaculture sector. He also has played a dual role in a unique partnership between WWF and American Red Cross (ARC) following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami where he provided oversight and support to all ARC livelihood projects in Indonesia associated with the disaster response and recovery effort. Aaron has helped launch an alternative ingredients consortium to allow pooling of resources to make leaps instead of steps in impact reduction. He is the environmental lead for the Seafood Task Force which has been the major change agent in the seafood sector following allegations of human rights abuse in Thailand. Through his work with WWF, Aaron’s team is developing traceability freeware such that actors in upstream reaches of supply chains can be included and is developing forensic chemistry techniques such as elemental profiling to determine country of origin. Aaron has lived and worked in Thailand, Madagascar and Indonesia. He received his MS and PhD from Auburn University, Alabama, USA in Water and Aquatic Soil Chemistry.
