1. Dr Sir Daniel Pauly is a French-born marine biologist, well known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries and in 2020 was the most cited fisheries scientist in the world.
19 Facts About Daniel Pauly
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Daniel Pauly is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us initiative at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia.
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Daniel Pauly served as Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre from November 2003 to October 2008.
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In February 2023 Pauly was the co-recipient of the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, with Ussif Rashid Sumaila.
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Daniel Pauly grew up in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland in what was called a strange "Dickensian" childhood where he was forced to stay as a live-in servant to a new family.
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Daniel Pauly's work led to a scholarship to the University of Kiel.
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Daniel Pauly said he wanted to work in the tropics because he felt that he would "fit in" better there.
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Daniel Pauly wanted to devote his life to an applied job where he could help people.
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Daniel Pauly did a master's degree at Kiel University at Gotthilf Hempel lab on "The ecology and fishery of a small West African lagoon".
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Daniel Pauly then spent two years conducting trawling surveys as a member of a German-Indonesian project aiming at introducing this relatively new gear.
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Daniel Pauly began to write on tropical fisheries management; later his emphasis switched to global fisheries trends and conservation.
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Daniel Pauly's dissertation laid the foundation for his Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory, which he would later develop in more detail.
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Early in his career at ICLARM, Daniel Pauly worked in the tropics and developed new methods for estimating fish populations.
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Daniel 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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The author of several books and more than 500 scientific papers, Daniel Pauly is a prolific writer and communicator.
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Daniel Pauly developed the concept of shifting baselines in 1995 and authored the seminal paper, Fishing down marine food webs, in 1998.
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Daniel Pauly won the International Cosmos Prize in 2005, the Volvo Environment Prize in 2006, the Excellence in Ecology Prize and Ted Danson Ocean Hero Award in 2007, the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology and Environmental Sciences in 2008, and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2012.
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In 2015, Daniel Pauly received the Peter Benchley Ocean Award for Excellence in Science.
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Daniel Pauly has written several books, including Darwin's Fishes, Five Easy Pieces: How Fishing Impacts Marine Ecosystems and Gasping Fish and Panting Squids: Oxygen, Temperature and the Growth of Water-Breathing Animals.