Marine biologist
Speaker
Daniel Pauly
Prinicipal investigator of the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canadá)
Marine biologist Daniel Pauly is best known for his work on the human impact on global fisheries.
Born in France and raised in Switzerland, Daniel Pauly studied in Germany, where he received his PhD in fisheries biology from the University of Kiel in 1979. He then moved to the Philippines to work at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), where he developed the world's largest marine biodiversity database: FishBase, with more than 35,000 catalogued fish species.
He is currently Professor and Director of the Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Oceans and Fisheries. The Sea Around Us project aims to map fish catches in all oceans to study the impact of fishing on marine fish stocks.
He was Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre from November 2003 to October 2008. Awards include the 2023 Tyler Prize, which Pauly shared with Ussif Rashid Sumaila for environmental achievement (this prize has been described as the "Nobel Prize for the environment").
Photo: courtesy Sea Around Us
