Fisheries Science - Notable Contributors

Notable Contributors

• Spencer F. Baird – founding scientist of the United States Fish Commission
• Fedor I. Baranov - Russian scientist and the father of the Baranov catch equation, thereby being one of the founding fathers of fisheries science
• Ludwig von Bertalanffy – Austrian-born biologist and a founder of general systems theory
• Ray Beverton – English fisheries biologist; known for the Beverton–Holt model (with Sidney Holt), credited with being one of the founders of fisheries science
• Villy Christensen – fisheries scientist and ecosystem modeler, known for his work on the development of Ecopath
• John N. Cobb – founder of the first college of fisheries in the United States, the University of Washington College of Fisheries, in 1919
• David Cushing – English born fisheries biologist, who is credited with the development of the match/mismatch hypothesis
• W. Harry Everhart – American fisheries scientist, educator, administrator, and author of several widely used fisheries texts
• Rainer Froese – Known for his work on the development and coordination of FishBase
• Gotthilf Hempel – German marine biologist and oceanographer, and co-founder of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
• Walther Herwig – Prussian lawyer and promoter of high seas fishing and research
• Ray Hilborn – Canadian-born fisheries biologist, with strong contributions towards fisheries management
• Johan Hjort – Norwegian fisheries biologist, marine zoologist, and oceanographer
• Bruno Hofer – German fishery scientist, credited with being the founder of fish pathology
• Sidney Holt – English fisheries biologist; known for the Beverton–Holt model (with Ray Beverton), credited with being one of the founders of fisheries science
• Uwe Kils – German marine biologist specializing in planktology. Inventor of the ecoSCOPE
• Robert T. Lackey – Canadian born fisheries scientist and political scientist known for his work involving the role of science in policy making
• Leo Margolis – Canadian parasitologist and head of the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, British Columbia
• R. J. McKay – Australian-born biologist and a specialist in translocated freshwater fishes
• Ransom A. Myers – Canadian marine biologist and conservationist
• Daniel Pauly – prominent French-born fisheries scientist, known for his work studying human impacts on global fisheries
• Tony J. Pitcher – known for work on the impacts of fishing, management appraisals and the shoaling behavior of fish
• Michael A. Rice – American known for work on molluscan fisheries
• Bill Ricker – Canadian fisheries biologist, known for the Ricker model, credited with being one of the founders of fisheries science
• Ed Ricketts – a colourful American marine biologist and philosopher who introduced ecology to fisheries science.
• Callum Roberts – British marine conservation biologist, known for his work on the role marine reserves play in protecting marine ecosystems
• Harald Rosenthal – German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology
• Carl Safina – author of several writings on marine ecology and the ocean
• Georg Ossian Sars – Norwegian marine biologist credited with the discovery of a number of new species and known for his analysis of cod fisheries
• Tore Schweder – Norwegian statistician whose work includes the assessment of marine resources
• Milner Baily Schaefer – notable for his work on the population dynamics of fisheries
• Ussif Rashid Sumaila – noted for his analysis of the economic aspects of fisheries
• Fred Utter – noted as the founding father of the field of fishery genetics
• Carl Walters – American born biologist known for his work involving fisheries stock assessments, the adaptive management concept, and ecosystem modeling