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Tony J. Pitcher is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and specializes in environmental science with a focus on marine and fisheries research. Their research covers several interconnected subfields, including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, genetics, and aquatic science.

The scientist's work frequently engages with topics such as:

  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics

Recent significant publications by Tony J. Pitcher include:

  • Functional genetic diversity in an exploited marine species and its relevance to fisheries management, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Modeling ecosystem impacts of the invasive Japanese smelt Hypomesus nipponensis in Lake Erhai, southwestern China, 2021, Ecological Informatics
  • Trade-offs and uncertainties in Northeast Pacific herring fisheries: ecosystem modelling and management strategy evaluation, 2021, ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) as a key forage fish in the southeastern Gulf of Alaska, 2021, Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
  • Correction: Herring supports Northeast Pacific predators and fisheries: Insights from ecosystem modelling and management strategy evaluation, 2020, PLoS ONE

Tony J. Pitcher has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Evgeny A. Pakhomov
  • Szymon Surma
  • Mimi E. Lam
  • Eleni L. Petrou
  • Angela P. Fuentes-Pardo

Their work has been published across various scientific journals, with regular contributions appearing in:

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Ecological Informatics
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Towards sustainability in world fisheries

    Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen;Sylvie Guénette;Tony J. Pitcher

  • Functions of Shoaling Behaviour in Teleosts

    Tony J. Pitcher

  • Estimating the worldwide extent of illegal fishing.

    David J. Agnew;John Pearce;Ganapathiraju Pramod;Tom Peatman

  • Age-Groups from Size-Frequency Data: A Versatile and Efficient Method of Analyzing Distribution Mixtures

    P. D. M. Macdonald;T. J. Pitcher

  • Behaviour of Teleost Fishes

    Tony J. Pitcher

  • Fish in larger shoals find food faster

    T. J. Pitcher;A. E. Magurran;I. J. Winfield

  • A fuzzy logic expert system to estimate intrinsic extinction vulnerabilities of marine fishes to fishing

    William W.L. Cheung;Tony J. Pitcher;Daniel Pauly

  • The Sensory Basis of Fish Schools: Relative Roles of Lateral Line and Vision*

    Brian L. Partridge;Tony J. Pitcher

  • Fishing down the deep

    Telmo Morato;Telmo Morato;Reg Watson;Tony J. Pitcher;Daniel Pauly

  • RAPFISH : a rapid appraisal technique to evaluate the sustainability status of fisheries

    Tony J Pitcher;David Preikshot

  • Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries

    Camilo Mora;Ransom A. Myers;Marta Coll;Simone Libralato

  • FISHERIES MANAGED TO REBUILD ECOSYSTEMS? RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST TO SALVAGE THE FUTURE

    Tony J. Pitcher

  • The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes

    Tony J. Pitcher

  • Provenance, Shoal Size and the Sociobiology of Predator-Evasion Behaviour in Minnow Shoals

    A. E. Magurran;T. J. Pitcher

  • Attack Abatement: A Model for Group Protection by Combined Avoidance and Dilution

    George F. Turner;Tony J. Pitcher

  • An evaluation of progress in implementing ecosystem-based management of fisheries in 33 countries

    Tony J. Pitcher;Daniela Kalikoski;Katherine Short;Divya Varkey

  • A blind fish can school

    TJ Pitcher;BL Partridge;CS Wardle

  • Heuristic definitions of fish shoaling behaviour.

    T.J. Pitcher

  • The three-dimensional structure of fish schools

    Brian L. Partridge;Tony Pitcher;J. Michael Cullen;John Wilson

  • Dicing with death: predator inspection behaviour in minnow shoals

    T. J. Pitcher;D. A. Green;A. E. Magurran

Frequent Co-Authors

Telmo Morato
Telmo Morato University of the Azores
Daniel Pauly
Daniel Pauly University of British Columbia
Reg Watson
Reg Watson University of Tasmania
Paul J. B. Hart
Paul J. B. Hart University of Leicester
Anne E. Magurran
Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews
William W. L. Cheung
William W. L. Cheung University of British Columbia
Evgeny A. Pakhomov
Evgeny A. Pakhomov University of British Columbia
Ricardo S. Santos
Ricardo S. Santos University of the Azores
Malcolm R. Clark
Malcolm R. Clark National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Alida Bundy
Alida Bundy Bedford Institute of Oceanography

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