Daniel Pauly
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Daniel Pauly
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| Born |
May 2, 1946 Paris, France |
| Residence | Canada |
| Nationality | France |
| Fields | Marine biologist, fisheries scientist |
| Institutions |
UBC Fisheries Centre University of British Columbia |
| Alma mater | University of Kiel |
| Doctoral advisor | Gotthilf Hempel |
| Known for |
Shifting baselines Fishing down marine food webs FishBase Sea Around Us Project Ecopath with Ecosim |
| Notable awards | International Cosmos Prize (2005) Volvo Environment Prize (2006) Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology (2008) |
Daniel Pauly is a French-born marine biologist, well known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries. He is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia. He also served as Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre from November 2003 to October 2008.
Pauly was born in Paris, France. He grew up, however, in Switzerland in what was called a strange "Dickensian" childhood where he was forced to stay as a live-in servant to a new family. For the first 16 years of his life, Pauly lived an inward life as he was mixed race in an all white town, finding solace in books/reading and model construction. At 16 he ran away and put himself through high school in Wuppertal, Germany after one year working with disabled people for a local church-run institution. His work led to a scholarship to the University of Kiel.
It was at the University of Kiel where Pauly decided on fisheries biology. He said he wanted to work in the tropics because he felt that he would "fit in" better there. He also wanted to devote his life to an applied job where he could help people.
He did a master's degree at Kiel University under Gotthilf Hempel on "The ecology and fishery of a small West African lagoon". Pauly then spent two years conducting trawling surveys as a member of a German-Indonesian project aiming at introducing this relatively new gear. He began to write on tropical fisheries management; later his emphasis switched to global fisheries trends and conservation.
Arguably, some of Pauly's best work appeared in his Ph.D. dissertation at Kiel University in Germany, again under Hempel, in which he established strong relationships between the surface area of gills and the growth of fishes and aquatic (gill-breathing) invertebrates.
After his Ph.D., Pauly worked for 15 years at the International Center for Living and Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), in Manila, Philippines. Early in his career at ICLARM, Pauly worked in the tropics and developed new methods for estimating fish populations. Pauly helped to design, implement, and perfect methods using length-frequency data instead of the age of fish to estimate parameters of fisheries statistics such as growth and mortality.
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