Tony J Pitcher
Professor Tony J Pitcher MA DPhil (Oxon) pitcher.t@gmail.com
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| My research addresses three aspects of fisheries ecology: 1. The history and analysis of the impacts of fishing on aquatic ecosystems, and how future exploitation may be sustainable and reconciled with the preservation of their biodiversity and functioning. 2. The development of quantitative, multi-criteria evaluation frameworks and rapid appraisal
techniques for assessing the status of fisheries, management instruments and management goals in a scientific, evidence-based and replicable fashion. 3. A predictive understanding of how fish shoaling behavior impacts fisheries. My research has taken me throughout Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia, and Latin America. POSITIONS HELD I am currently a Professor of Fisheries in the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. In 2008 I am one of three Distinguished Scholars in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. I am currently the Senior Scientific Advisor and Chair of the Advisory Council of the FishSource initiative of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership. From January 1993 to July 2004, I was the founding Director of the Fisheries Centre. Recently I have been a visiting Professor at the University of Concepcion, Chile, a member the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Ecology in Ploen, Germany, and External Examiner in the Ecology and Biodiversity Department at The University of Kong Kong. I formerly held appointments with the Marine Resources Assessment Group at Imperial College, London, UK; at Bangor University, Wales; in Coleraine, Northern Ireland; and at the Institut fur Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany. I worked for a year as a Visiting Expert at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, and for 6 months at New South Wales Fisheries, Cronulla, Australia. I carried out my bachelors and doctoral degrees at Oxford University.AWARDS In 2003 I was awarded the Beverton Medal for lifetime contributions to the field of fish and fisheries by the Fisheries Society of the British Isles. The American Fisheries Society's Distinguished Service Award in 2005 was for work as Chair of the Programmme Committee of the 4th World Fisheries Congress. BOOKS include contributions on Seamounts, Recreational Fisheries, The Ethics of Fisheries, Introduced Species in African Lakes; Reinventing Fisheries Management, Hake, and a text book on Fisheries Ecology. See link in left side bar CITATIONS My personal citation rate is over 200 per year and I have published over 430 items, including 15 books.
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