Legends Nominee Biographies

CARS Legends Nominees (New and Carried Forward, alphabetical order by last name)

Alexander Dimitrivitch Bajkov

Dr. Bajkov’s biography and research contributions can be found here: http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/bajkov_ad.shtml

John Caddy

  • John came from England to work at St. Andrews Biological Station in about 1966 or 1967, he worked on scallop for a while, got into other invertebrates, and was very productive for a number of years.  He moved to FAO HQ in Rome in 1974 and worked there until 1999. 
  • He was extremely productive and influential on a wide range of subjects – stock assessment and management of fish and invertebrate stocks, the precautionary approach (he wrote a very influential FAO document on how this should be implemented for marine fisheries, which has been the model for many countries and international organisations), multiple impacts on small seas (the Mediterranean and Black Sea) etc. 
  • A summary of his career is at the site below. https://sites.google.com/view/john-caddy-fisheries-science/fisheries-science

William Doubleday

  • Dr. Doubleday has had an extensive career in fisheries science and research, as well as on policy matters. He is author or co-author of over 58 scientific papers and editor or co-editor of three volumes.
  • In addition, he has over 25 years of experience as an executive in the Federal Public Service, including managing DFO Science Sector and delivering science advice to six DFO Ministers. 
  • DFO – Director General of Fisheries and Oceans Science; Director General of Policy and Strategy, Science; Director of Policy and Program Coordination, Science; and Director of Resource Research Branch in Ottawa.
  • Dr. Doubleday also served as Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Science within DFO for two extended periods during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
  • He led the transformation of DFO’s collaborative science arrangements with the fishing industry in response to Federal Court decisions of 2006 that forced DFO to discontinue allocating fish quotas to finance cooperation. This involved extensive consultation with the fishing industry across Canada and created a renewed strategic partnership with them.
  • Led the analysis, design and implementation of an ice compensation program for Atlantic fishermen in 2007.  In DFO’s Policy Sector, he built a strong economic analysis group, introducing analysis of fishery management scenarios integrating scientific advice.
  • He was responsible for introducing peer review for socio-economic analyses of listing proposals for species at risk.
  • Served as Senior Visiting Fellow, Science and Technology, Canadian Centre for Management Development, Chairman of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) from 1996-98.
  • He negotiated a scientific cooperation agreement creating a strategic partnership with the State Oceanic Agency of China, and was Canadian co-chair of the Canada-Japan joint committee on Science and Technology cooperation.

Pierre Dumont

  • Recently retired, Pierre Dumont was a fisheries biologist, working in Quebec freshwater ecosystems since the beginning of the 1970s, when he got involved in the impact studies of the James Bay hydropower development.
  • He worked for the Quebec government since 1978, first as a regional biologist in the Outaouais region, and then (since 1982), in the St. Lawrence River lowlands, in the most urbanized part of the province.
  • He was involved in scientific studies on the status and the exploitation of lake sturgeon, yellow perch, and American eel, on the long-term monitoring of fish communities along the St. Lawrence River, on fish habitat improvement, and on the restoration of Copper Redhorse, and the in the restoration of the European sturgeon for which he made a one-year stage in France in 1998-1999.

Gordon Hartman

  • Born in northern BC, Gordon received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of British Columbia.  His dissertation work published in JFRBC in 1965 on behavior and ecology of juvenile coho salmon and steelhead continues to be a widely cited, foundational paper with respect to experimental evaluation of species interactions. 
  • Dr. Hartman’s varied career was widely influential. He was a research biologist with the BC Fish and Wildlife Branch where he conducted detailed studies of the spawning behavior of the unique Gerrard strain rainbow trout in Kootenay Lake. 
  • He taught fisheries biology at the University of Guelph 1968-1972 and was Wildlife Director for the Yukon.  He also served overseas, working for the FAO in Malawi to help establish a fisheries program, teaching fisheries at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, and studying forest-harvest effects with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in New Zealand. 
  • In perhaps his most influential role, from 1980-1987, Dr. Hartman was director of the Carnation Creek Fish-Forestry Project, one of the longest running watershed studies in North America. 
  • Dr. Hartman revitalized the project, organizing key symposia, bringing in students and postdocs, and truly integrating physical and biological scientists. 
  • His work culminated in publishing a penultimate review of the project in 1990 (Fisheries and Oceans Bulletin 223) and co-authorship of the book “Fishes and Forestry-Worldwide Watershed Interactions and Management,” that uniquely brought together fish-forestry perspectives among scientists from the world over.
  • These efforts have strongly influenced the science and management of fishes and forests throughout North America and the world. 
  • Dr. Hartman’s keen curiosity and powers of observation, his sense of humor and encouraging demeanor, and passion for natural-resource management, have contributed greatly to the science and management of fisheries and the professional development of fisheries scientists, throughout Canada for the past 50 years, and is truly a ‘legend’ to those fortunate to have worked with him.

Vianney Legendre

  • Professor Legendre began working at the Ministry of Hunting and Fishing in 1938, prior to completing his Master’s degree at the Université de Montréal and doctoral work at the University of Michigan. 
  • He served as:
    • Director of the Tadoussac (1943-47) and Laurentian (1943-1961) aquaculture facilities,
    • Chief Biologist at the Office of Biology of the Department of Hunting and Fishing in 1952, and
    • Director of the Research Laboratory of the Québec Department of Tourism, Hunting and Fishing from 1962 until his retirement in 1980. 
  • In addition to his various positions with the Government of Québec, he taught at the Université de Montréal from 1939 to 1959, teaching courses including in ichthyology, physiology, and pharmacodynamics, among other subjects. 
  • He was actively involved in reviewing and recommending masters and doctoral theses in hydrology and ichthyology at Laval, McGill, Montréal, and Québec universities.
  • His research compassed work on salmonids, including Atlantic Salmon and Brook Trout, and esocids, and studies on fish migration and pioneering the scientific sampling of regions such as Ungava and the Saguenay River. 
  • He described the Copper Redhorse (Moxostoma hubbsi), the only fish species endemic to Québec and played a significant role in the restoration of the Jacques Cartier River. 
  • He published:
    • 232 articles,
    • conference texts, and
    • books on ichthyology, including the Key for the Identification of Salmonids of the Province of Quebec, the List of Freshwater Fishes of Quebec and the Salmonids of the Waters of the Montreal Plain. 
  • As a recognition of his numerous contributions, the fishway facility on the Richelieu River was named of the Vianney-Legendre Fishway, and it that plays a critical role in protecting fish biodiversity and species at risk.  Given the importance and extent of Professor Vianney Legendre’s contribution to our knowledge of fish and fisheries within Canada, we believe he represents an excellent candidate for consideration to be included within the Legends of Canadian Fisheries Science and Management.

Colin Levings

  • Colin is an internationally recognized estuarine and fisheries research scientist (http://colinlevings.ca/).
  • Currently affiliated with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and an Adjunct Faculty, University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, he has made a substantial contribution to our understanding of salmon utilization of estuarine habitats, culminating in his internationally acclaimed book entitled “Ecology of Salmonids in Estuaries around the World”.
  • He has published over 200 scientific papers and reports, and his work is cited around the world (2019, 24 countries) by many authors in an impressive array of journals and books.
  • Colin has worked extensively with scientists in Norway, Korea, Japan and researched in these countries as well as hosting overseas scientists in his laboratory.
  • He has served as a co-supervisor for over 20 graduate students and post doctoral fellows at UBC, Simon Fraser University, and University of Victoria and continues to write, review, advise and mentor students and colleagues.
  • During his 58 year career, Colin has conducted scientific research on :
    • Pacific cod ecology,
    • marine protected areas,
    • effects of fishing gear on benthos,
    • estuarine amphipod ecology,
    • pollution studies (acid mine drainage, pulp mills/dioxin, ocean dumping, sewage),
    • estuarine marsh restoration,
    • eelgrass mapping and remote sensing,
    • invasive species including ballast water studies,
    • environmental effects of aquaculture,
    • winter ecology of salmonids in the Fraser River system,
    • use of stable isotopes to identify nearshore food webs,
    • Pacific lamprey ecology,
    • effects of turbidity on salmonid feeding, and
    • effects of low dissolved oxygen on fjord oceanography.

Kaz Patalas

  • He was a pioneer in zooplankton research, working in the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) and eutrophication.
  • Before immigrating to Canada in 1967, he was Professor of Hydrobiology at the Freshwater Institute in Olsztyn, Poland.
  • He continued his research at the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg, where he worked as a research scientist for 25 years.
  • He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Randall Peterman

  • Randall M. Peterman held a Canada Research Chair in “Fisheries Risk Assessment and Management” at Simon Fraser University from 2001 through 2012 and specialized in quantitative methods to improve fisheries management.
  • He used large data sets, simulations models, Bayesian statistics, and formal decision analysis. Peer recognition for his research includes the 1990 J.C. Stevenson Award for “…creative research on the cutting edge of an aquatic discipline.”
  • In 1990, Randall won Simon Fraser University’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He has co-chaired a panel for the Canadian Global Change Program of the Royal Society of Canada. https://www.sfu.ca/rem/people/profiles/peterman.html
  • His research focused on:
    • fish population dynamics,
    • uncertainties affecting conservation risks and management decisions, and
    • reducing uncertainties.
  • Awards include the:
    • 2012 award for the “Second-best paper” in Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the 2012 Eurographics Conference on Visualization, Vienna, Austria),
    • 2006 Robert L. Kendall “Best Paper Award” for the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (134:86),
    • “The Most Significant Paper in the North American J. of Fisheries Management” (1992, 12:1), and
    • the 1994 W.F. Thompson Award (American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists) for “The Best Student Paper” (Canadian J. of Fish. & Aquatic Sci. 49:1294).

Edward Prince (1869-1937)

  • For all intents and purposes, the Canadian Government’s first professionally trained fisheries biologist. 
  • Recruited from the Royal College of Medicine (Glasgow) in 1892, he was appointed the Canadian Commissioner of Fisheries. 
  • Under his tenure, Canada’s fisheries laws were made more effective through the application of scientific information. 
  • He was probably the most prolific fisheries author of his day, writing on a variety of topics ranging from the effectiveness of fishways to management of sturgeon. 
  • Among his most noteworthy achievements was being named the Canadian representative to the Joint Commission Relative to the Preservation of the Fisheries in Waters Contiguous to Canada and the United States, the first example of binational cooperation for management of shared fisheries, under whose leadership a comprehensive investigation of the status of shared coastal and inland fisheries was completed over a four year period. 
  • Probably his most lasting contribution to fisheries science was the establishment of Canada’s first marine (Bay of Fundy) and inland (Georgian Bay) fisheries research stations including what would eventually become the Fisheries Research Board of Canada and the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science.

Mike Sinclair

  • Scientist Emeritus, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and former President, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
  • Mike’s early research was on primary production in estuaries, followed by a focus on population ecology of exploited marine fish species.
  • More recent research has been on the practical implementation of the “ecosystem approach” to fisheries management, as well as the role of grey seals on the lack of recovery of cod on the Eastern Scotian Shelf.

Richard Albert Vollenweider

  • Richard Vollenweider worked with the OECD in Switzerland to capture quantitative relationships between land use, water renewal rates, nutrient supply rates, lake trophic status, chlorophyll, and biotic conditions.
  • His OECD model became the fundamental framework for Canadian ELA research, Great Lakes research, and even some river/estuary oceanographic studies in Florida and Mediterranean coastal seas.
  • His eutrophication model was the first quantitative, testable, practical, and useful tool in both the science and management of freshwater resources that were in trouble from oversupply of nutrients (mainly phosphorus).
  • He was also a very good cook, a wine expert, and raconteur of many strange jokes.

Samuel Wilmot

  • Samuel Wilmot (1822-1899) was established Canada’s first fish culture station on his property at Newcastle, Ontario, in 1866, with the intention of curbing the decline in Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario; in 1868 the federal government appointed him a fisheries overseer with special duties for operating the hatchery. 
  • Later being named the Superintendent of Fish Culture, he established a system of 15 hatcheries across the country, including the development of numerous innovations in fish culture techniques.  Biography found here: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/wilmot_samuel_12E.html