Harold Loesch

Harold Loesch
Born	October 3, 1926 McGregor, Texas
Died	May 12, 2011
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Texas A&M University
Known for	Research on commercial fisheries in the developing world
Scientific career
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.