Alma mater Oxford University Name Tony Pitcher | Education University of Oxford Residence Canada | |
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Institutions UBC Fisheries CentreUniversity of British ColumbiaPeter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Known for Founding director: UBC Fisheries CentreFounder: Fish and FisheriesFounder: Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesFishing down the deep Notable awards 2003: Beverton Medal2005: Distinguished Service Award of the AFS Fields Marine biology, Fisheries science | ||
Tony J Pitcher is a fisheries scientist, well known for his work on the impacts of fishing, the management appraisal of fisheries, and how shoaling behaviour impacts fisheries.
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He is the founding director of the UBC Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia, where he is currently a professor of fisheries.
Career
In 1989, Pitcher founded the journal Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. In 2000, he founded another journal, the quarterly Fish and Fisheries. This journal has the highest impact factor in its field fisheries.
In 2003 Pitcher was awarded the Beverton Medal by the Fisheries Society of the British Isles for his contributions to the understanding of fish and fisheries. In 2005 he was given the Distinguished Service Award by the American Fisheries Society for his work as Chair of the Programme Committee of the 4th World Fisheries Congress. In 2008 he was Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
Pitcher has been a visiting Professor at the University of Concepcion, Chile and a member of the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen.. He was the Senior Scientific Advisor and Chair of the Advisory Council of the FishSource initiative.
Publications
Pitcher has authored or co-authored 16 books or edited volumes, 222 peer reviewed research papers and 240 other published contributions. According to Google Scholar his H-factor is 54, with over 12,000 citations to his work.