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Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly became a professor at UBC's Fisheries Centre in 1994, after many years at the International Centre for Living Aquatic Resource Management (ICLARM), then in Manila, Philippines. Pauly has authored or co-authored more than 500 scientific articles, book chapters and shorter contributions, and authored, or (co-) edited about 30 books and reports. Two books, On the Sex of Fishes and the Gender of Scientist: A Collection of Essays in Fisheries Science (Chapman and Hall, 1994) and "Méthodes pour l'évaluation des ressources halieutiques (Cépaduès-Éditions, 1997) summarize much previous work, as do his articles "Fishing Down Marine Food Webs" (Science, February 6, 1998), and "Toward Sustainability in World Fisheries," (Nature, August 8, 2002). Two other books, In a Perfect Ocean: Fisheries and Ecosystem in the North Atlantic (Island Press, 2003); and Darwin's Fishes: An Encyclopedia of Ichthyology, Ecology and Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2004) document his current interests.

In 2001, he was awarded the Murray Newman Award for Excellence in Marine Conservation Research, sponsored by the Vancouver Aquarium, and the Oscar E. Sette Award of the Marine Fisheries Section, American Fisheries Society. He was named a 'Honorarprofessor 'at Kiel University, Germany in late 2002. In 2003, he was named one of UBC's Distinguished University Scholars and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science). In 2004, he received the Roger Revelle Medal from IOC/UNESCO, and the Award of Excellence of the American Fisheries Society.

Pauly received his Master (1974), Doctorate (1979) and 'Habilitation' (1985) in Fisheries Biology and Biological Oceanography from the University of Kiel, Germany.