Name Ray Hilborn Role Professor | ||
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Institutions University of Washington Known for His critiques of Daniel Pauly Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Volvo Environment Prize (2006) Fields Marine biology, Fisheries science Books Quantitative fisheries stock ass, The Ecological Detective, Overfishing: What Everyone, Biomass dynamic models: u | ||
Residence Washington, United States | ||
Ray hilborn plenary seafood summit 2011
Ray Hilborn (born 1947) is a marine biologist and fisheries scientist, known for his work on conservation and natural resource management in the context of fisheries. He is currently professor of aquatic and fishery science at the University of Washington. He focuses on conservation, natural resource management, fisheries stock assessment and risk analysis, and advises several international fisheries commissions and agencies.
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- Ray hilborn plenary seafood summit 2011
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Part 1 the state of world fisheries ray hilborn
Biography
Ray Hilborn has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and several books.
In 1992, Hilborn coauthored Quantitative fisheries stock assessment with Carl Walters. In 1997, he coauthored The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data with Marc Mangel. In 2012, he coauthored Overfishing: what everyone needs to know with Ulrike Hilborn.
With Carl Walters, he jointly received the Wildlife Society award for best paper in fish ecology and management: Walters, C.J. and Hilborn R. 1976. "Adaptive control of fishing systems", Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 33(1): 145-159.
In 2006, he shared the Volvo Environment Prize with Daniel Pauly and Carl Walters. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
In 2011, he received the Ecological Society of America's Sustainability Science Award for a 2009 paper with Boris Worm and others entitled Rebuilding global fisheries, Science 325:578-585.
His major areas of current and past research interest include "Bayesian analysis of decision making in natural resources, adaptive management of renewable resources, the dynamics of the Serengeti ecosystem in east Africa, the role of hatcheries in management of Pacific salmon, the ability of institutions to learn from experience, statistical methods in testing dynamic ecological hypotheses, the analysis of migration and dispersal from mark–recapture data, and the ecological dynamics of fishing fleets."