Lida Pet-Soede is a senior strategic conservation and fisheries management professional. She has lived in many places around the world however most of her work has been based around Asia Pacific region, Indonesia and the Coral Triangle. Lida is originally from a dairy farm in the Netherlands, however discovered her love for the marine world whilst studying for her degree at Wageningen Agriculture University.

Captivated by the ocean, she went on to complete a Phd in Indonesia in Tropical Fisheries Biology and Management. Lida is currently enjoying the coastal gems of Cornwall but plans to move back to Indonesia in the near future.

Lida is a keen scuba diver, snorkeler and all round thalassophile. She has explored many amazing places, experiencing stunning underwater wilderness. Her career includes working with governments, NGOs and the private sector to achieve sustainable coastal and marine development in Indonesia and the Asia Pacific region. This includes project and strategy design, project review and evaluation, professional development coaching and creation of strategic partnerships. She conducts assessments and provides advice on tropical collaborative fisheries management, marine biodiversity conservation, sustainable aquaculture development, sustainable development in coastal communities, marine tourism, and policy reform for collaborative governance and management.

Lida is passionate about preserving our ocean for future generations and is currently focusing on the concept of Shifting Baselines.  The concept that younger generations of divers may be blown away by the beauty of our waters. However, the reality is that it is just a fraction of the thriving ecosystem that it used to be. We cannot appreciate what is lost, if we never knew it was there. Using this as a focal point of her work, Lida hopes to motivate younger young people about lost ecosystems, and encourage them to focus their careers in solutions to rewild.

‘I think that every individual can try and do their best, and that’s just about it. And then doing your best means that you are responsible to not be ignorant, and you are responsible not to do harm if you can avoid it’ — Lida Pet-Soede

• Zach Boakes | Bournemouth University

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lida-Pet-Soede
• MARINE CAPTURE FISHERIES POLICY FORMULATION AND THE ROLE OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS AS TOOL FOR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN INDONESIA
• KAJIAN KEBIJAKAN PENGELOLAAN PERIKANAN TANGKAP DI INDONESIA: MENUJU PEMBENTUKAN KAWASAN PERLINDUNGAN LAUT
• Mapping the overlap between ocean industries and marine hotspots in the Coral Triangle.
• A Review of the Spatial Distribution of Marine Turtle Nesting and Foraging Areas in Western Australia
• Global analysis of satellite tracking data shows that adult green turtles are significantly aggregated in Marine Protected Areas
• Safeguarding the Blue Planet: Six strategies for accelerating ocean protection
• Policy needs to improve marine capture fisheries management and to define role for marine protected areas in Indonesia
• Reexamining the science of marine protected areas: Linking knowledge to action
• SARS and the live food fish trade in Indonesia: Some anecdotes
• Effects of the 1998 Coral Morality Event on Kenyan Coral Reefs and Fisheries
• The Economics of Worldwide Coral Reef Degradation
• Impact of Indonesian coral reef fisheries on fish community structure and the resultant catch composition
• Can fishermen allocate their fishing effort in space and time on the basis of their catch rates? An example from Spermonde Archipelago, SW Sulawesi, Indonesia
• Options for co-management of an Indonesian coastal fishery
• Kenyan coral reef fish, fisheries and economics – trends and status after the 1998 coral mortality
• Socioeconomic Assessment of the Impacts of the 1998 Coral Reef Bleaching in the Indian Ocean
• Cyanide fishing on Indonesian coral reefs for the live food fish market – What is the problem?
• Options for co-management of an Indonesian coastal fishery
• Trends in an Indonesian coastal fishery based on catch and effort statistics and implications for the perception of the state of the stocks by fisheries officials
• An Economic Analysis of Blast Fishing on Indonesian Coral Reefs
• The Status of the coral refs of India following the bleaching event of 1998
• A note on cyanide fishing in Indonesia
• Blast fishing in SW Sulawesi, Indonesia
• An overview and comparison of destructive fishing practices in Indonesia
• How fresh is too fresh? The live reef food fish trade in Eastern Indonesia
• Comparison of methods for the estimation of gillnet selectivity to tilapia, cyprinids and other fish species in a Sri Lankan reservoir
• Coral Bleaching in the Indian Ocean: SocioEconomic Assessment of Effects
• Les effets du SRAS sur le commerce de poissons de récif vivants destinés à la restauration en Indonésie : quelques faits et chiffres
• IMPROVING COASTAL LIVELIHOODS THROUGH SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE PRACTICES
• Can fishermen allocate their fishing effort in space and time on the basis of their catch rates?
• Blastfishing in Southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia.
• Fuzzy logic as a method for the application of qualitative concepts in a quantitative system framework.
• https://news.mongabay.com/2009/06/proving-the-shifting-baselines-theory-how-humans-consistently-misperceive-nature/amp/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-learned-fishy-business-lida-pet