Harold Loesch
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Harold Loesch | |
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| Born | October 3, 1926 |
| Died | May 12, 2011 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | Texas A&M University |
| Known for | Research on commercial fisheries in the developing world |
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| Fields | Marine Biology |
| Institutions | Louisiana State University, Texas A&M University, UNESCO, FAO |
Harold Carl Otto Loesch (October 3, 1926 – May 12, 2011) was a marine biologist and oceanographer who is credited with being the first to examine the Mobile Bay jubilee in an academic journal[1] (Ecology).paper
Much of his career was as an academic holding a professorship in the Department of Marine Sciences at Louisiana State University, though he also spent many years working for the United Nations agencies UNESCO and FAO to develop fisheries in newly industrialized countries. His principal areas of research were shrimp, copepods, and commercial fisheries development.
Loesch received his Ph.D. in biological oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1962. He served as a professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the Department of Zoology and Physiology in 1968 and 1969, and then as a Professor of Marine Sciences from 1969 to 1975. During this time he studied shrimp fisheries in nearby Barataria Bay in association with the National Science Foundation Sea Grant Development Office.
He also held the titles of visiting professor in both the Organization of American States Marine Sciences Program in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and at The School for Field Studies Marine Ecology program at South Caicos Island in the British West Indies.