Daniel Pauly
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| Born | May 2, 1946 Paris, France |
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| Residence | Canada |
| Nationality | Template:FR |
| Fields | Marine biologist |
| Institutions | Fisheries Centre University of British Columbia |
| Alma mater | University of Kiel |
| Known for | Shifting baselines Fishing down marine food webs |
| Notable awards | Cosmos Prize (2005) Volvo Environment Prize (2007) |
Dr. Daniel Pauly is a French-born biologist, famous for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries. He is Professor and Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia and Project Leader of the Sea Around Us Project.
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Early in his career, Pauly worked in the tropics and developed new methods for estimating fish populations. Later, he helped to develop FishBase. Through the 1990s, Dr. Pauly’s work centered on the effects of overfishing. The author of several books and more than 500 scientific papers, Dr. Pauly is a prolific writer and communicator. He developed the overarching concept of Shifting baselines in 1995 and published his seminal paper on Fishing Down Marine Food Webs in Science in 1998. For working to protect the environment, he earned a place in the Scientific American 50 in 2003, the same year the New York Times labeled him an “iconoclast”. Dr. Pauly won the International Cosmos Prize in 2005, the Volvo Environment Prize in 2006, and the ECI Prize and Ted Danson Ocean Hero Award in 2007.
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To date, he frequently expresses opinions about public policy. Specifically, he argues that governments should abolish subsidies to fishing fleets and establish marine reserves. He is a member of the Board of Oceana.
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- Dr. Daniel Pauly biography on the UBC Fisheries Centre website
- Scientific American, December 2003, p.59
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