Interviewer: You were looking at an ecosystem in one area. So I in a sense, created a field of world fisheries as a study object. With a friend, I started writing a series of little papers on world fisheries and realized many assumptions that I had made about the world catch and the world potential. And I realized that actually very few scientists were working on world fisheries as a topic. But I could not put the fisheries that I was studying in the context of world fisheries. In other words, they could put their rice in the context of worldwide production. The rice people knew very well what the rest of the production in the world was. I was surprised when I spoke with a colleague and learned that The International Rice Research Institute was working on developing a new variety of rice for planting. Interviewer: Why is it important to study marine ecosystems on a global scale?ĭANIEL: When I decided to work on global fish populations, global fisheries as a global phenomenon, I had been in the Philippines working on tropical fisheries, on single fisheries. So I work not on the things themselves, I like to see patterns and data that represent processes. I enjoy this, and I like to see the patterns. I like the way explanations are found for things that happen in the ocean and things that happen in nature. I’m interested in the ideas that represent the process-that linking co-system. I can go through a forest and not see the birds. Wilson who had a deep affinity to the real organism. I’m very different from a scientist like E.O. Interviewer: And what got you interested in marine biology?ĭANIEL: Really nothing special. And because I couldn’t do physics, I wanted to study biology. And I wanted to study a science, which would have practical implication, because at that time in the 60s everybody wanted to help out. I wanted to study something that would be of use in a developing country setting because I planned to leave Europe and to work presumably in Africa. Interviewer: So what got you first interested in science?ĭANIEL: I grew up in Europe, specifically in Switzerland, and I studied in Germany. Very few people work in fisheries on a global scale most of them are limited to a bay or fishery in the Gulf or a country at most, but not internationally. I’m a professor of fisheries and I work on a global scale. Interviewer: Would you tell us about your research.ĭANIEL: I’m the Director of the Fishery Center at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
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