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TishFish

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Last Activity: 07-06-2017 19:47

About Me

About TishFish

Location

Los Angeles

Occupation

Marine Science&Policy

Interests

sailing

Biography

Tish, Tishy Bunk grew up in the mountain town of Greenfield Massachusetts always dreaming of protecting the world’s oceans and its' creatures. At the age of 18, Tish left home for Florida and became a dolphin trainer, another result of her persistence to her goals. Tish later attended Moorpark College in California, and got her Wild and Exotic Animal Training and Management Associate degree. Tish spent most of her 20’s in the captive animal field training or in zoo keeping of many species. Disillusioned with the ability of the captive work to make the “difference” that she envisioned, she returned to school for a BS in biology at SDSU. Tish has since worked extensively in field biology, having gone to Hawaii, Baja California, Northern and Southern California and the Eastern US seaboard working in remote camps and on sea vessels gathering data, conducting fieldwork research by restraining, radio tagging, tubing, and feeding injured or orphaned seals, whales, even mountain lion, to name but a few of her accomplishments. She once backpacked by herself through Baja to meet the University of La Paz, Mexico, students to set up a remote field camp in Laguna San Ignacio for the calving season of the gray whale. After seeing such changes in these ecosystems, Tish returned to school to further her skills. But first she took a short break in 2001-2003 to beat ovarian cancer. She is a survivor. During that break she came across CSULA Interdisciplinary Program, of which she completed a triple discipline Master's degree (2009), in Genetics, Geography and Environmental Policy. Tish wrote her thesis while living on a 36 ft wooden ketch off of Mexico. It is her adventure, energy and tenacity that drives her success. Her plans are to start a Global Ocean Foundation with a focus area to support young entrepreneurial students who seek to make a difference environmentally, as well as areas on climate change,trash and debris,marine species preservation,ecotourism through conservation, and eco-filmmaking and documentaries,to support environmental stewardship around the world.