13th Annual Wiese Distinguished Lecture Series Presents
Dr. Daniel Pauly, Professor and Director, The Fisheries Centre
The University of British Columbia

Sept 7, 2006

What:              13th Annual Wiese Distinguished Lecture Series Presents
                        Dr. Daniel Pauly, Professor and Director, The Fisheries Centre
                        The University of British Columbia
 
Topic:            “Global Trends in World Fisheries: Impact on Marine Ecosystems and Food Security”
 
When:             Wednesday, November 1, 7:00pm
 
Where:           University of South Alabama (USA), Mitchell Center, John Counts Room
 
Admission:   Admission is free and open to the general public.  

                        For more information, call 460-7136.
 

The New York Times calls Dr. Daniel Pauly “an iconoclaststic fisheries scientist…who is so decidedly global in his life and outlook that he is nearly a man without a country.”  

 This world-renowned scientist will be featured as the 13th Annual Wiese Distinguished Lecturer this fall, and the public is invited to attend his talk “Global Trends in World Fisheries: Impact on Marine Ecosystems and Food Security” on Wednesday, November 1, 7pm at the John Counts Room at the Mitchell Center, University of South Alabama (USA).

 Dr. Pauly is currently the Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia and one of the creators of FishBase (www.fishbase.org), a website with information on over 27,000 species of fish.  He is widely considered one of the world’s most prolific and cited living fisheries scientist. Dr. Bob Shipp, Chair of the Department of Marine Sciences at USA, states, “Dr. Pauly has become an outspoken and at times controversial critic of modern fishing practices. He has suggested that marine fishers will leave little but jellyfish for future generations to eat, and he has blamed the Chinese government for inflating fish catch statistics and helping obscure a global overfishing crisis.”

 The Wiese Lecture Series is endowed by a generous gift from the late Peter Wiese and his wife Marty of Fairhope, Alabama. Each year the series brings an eminent scientist to the University of South Alabama and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The scientist interacts with students and faculty and presents a lecture for the public on a topic of general interest in marine science.
 
This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.