Thursday
January 30, 2003
4:30-5:30 pm
102 Fishery Sciences
(auditorium)
Social follows talk
Thursday
January 30, 2003
4:30-5:30 pm
102 Fishery Sciences
(auditorium)
Social follows talk
Daniel PaulyProfessor of Fisheries, University of British ColumbiaGlobal Impacts of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems: Results from the Sea Around Us Project |
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http://fisheries.ubc.ca/members/dpauly/
http://www.saup.fisheries.ubc.ca
Fisheries have rarely been ‘sustainable’. Rather, fishing has induced serial depletions, long masked by improved technology, geographic expansion and exploitation of previously spurned species lower in the food web. With global catches declining since the late 1980s, continuation of present trends will lead to supply shortfall, for which aquaculture cannot be expected to compensate, and may well exacerbate. Reducing fishing capacity to appropriate levels will require strong reductions of subsidies. Zoning the oceans into unfished marine reserves and areas with limited levels of fishing effort would allow sustainable fisheries, based on resources embedded in functional, diverse ecosystems.
Dr. Daniel Pauly is a French citizen, born in May 1946 in Paris, France. He grew up in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, but completed high school and university studies in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he acquired a "Diplom" (= MSc) in 1974 and a Doctorate degree in Fisheries Biology in 1979 at the University of Kiel. He joined the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), in Manila, Philippines, in July 1979 as a Postdoctoral Fellow, and gradually took increasing responsibilities as Associate, and Senior Scientist, then Program and Division Director. In 1984/85 he obtained at Kiel University a 'Habilitation' (= DSc), i.e., the post-doctoral degree required for teaching in many European universities.
In October 1994, he joined the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, as a tenured Professor, while remaining ICLARM's Principal Science Adviser until Dec. 1997.
His early career was devoted to developing new approaches for fisheries research and management in data sparse settings, especially tropical developing countries. This has led to software (Elefan, Ecopath) and scientific databases (FishBase) now used throughout the world. His current work, concentrating on ecosystem-based fisheries management, has led to concepts now structuring much research in marine biology, notably on "fishing down marine food webs," which impacts all the worlds aquatic systems, but which many do not notice because of the "shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries." A profile of D. Pauly was published in Science on April 19, 2002.
1. Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen, Sylvie Guénette, Tony J. Pitcher, U. Rashid Sumaila, Carl J. Walters, R. Watson & Dirk Zeller. (2002) Towards sustainability in world fisheries. Nature 418:689-695.