Milner Baily Schaefer
| Milner Baily Schaefer | |
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| Born |
December 14, 1912 Cheyenne, Wyoming |
| Died | July 26, 1970 (aged 57) San Diego |
| Institutions | Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Known for | The Schaefer model, fisheries science, bioeconomics |
| Spouse | Isabella Long |
Milner Baily ("Benny") Schaefer was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1912 and died at the age of 57 in San Diego, California in 1970. He is notable for his work on the population dynamics of fisheries.
Schaefer worked as a biologist at the Washington State Fisheries Department and from 1937-1942 as a scientist for the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. In 1946 he joined the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and held various posts at the Fishery Biology Headquarters at Stanford University. Later, he worked at the Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii and completed a doctorate in fisheries from the University of Washington in 1950. In 1951 Schaefer became Director of Investigations at the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). IATTC established its first headquarters at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
During his period at the IATTC, Schaefer worked on the development of theories of fishery dynamics and published a fishery equilibrium model based on the Verhulst population growth model and an assumption of a bi-linear catch equation, often referred to as the Schaefer short-term catch equation:
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