Nationality American | Name Edwin Pister | |
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Born January 15, 1929
Stockton, California ( 1929-01-15 ) Occupation Fishery Biologist, Conservationist, Deep Ecologist Subject Desert fishes, conservation, environmental ethics | ||
Phil Pister and Roger Samuelsen on Preserving the Biotic Community, and Fishing
Edwin "Phil" Pister is a fishery biologist who worked for California Department of Fish and Game. He was a pioneer of desert fish conservation, and is credited with saving the Owens pupfish (Cyprinodon radiosis) by transferring the entire remaining population into several buckets and transporting them to a safe location
Phil Pister was born in Stockton, California and currently lives in Bishop, California. A volume compiling studies of desert fishes has been published in his honor. He has written and published numerous scientific and popular papers and has also written about environmental ethics.
He has served as executive secretary of the Desert Fishes Council
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