Our Researchers
Marine Fisheries Ecology, Shifting Distributions and Population Dynamics, Fisheries Productivity, Food Web Interactions
Dr. Jonathan Fisher is a research scientist within the Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research (CFER). His primary research goal is to understand and quantify how fishing and environmental conditions alter the characteristics and dynamics of marine ecosystems—with a focus on the fisheries resources of Newfoundland and Labrador and emerging issues in Arctic waters. Those goals are currently being achieved through collaborative research with industry, academic, and government partners and the supervision of graduate student research projects.
Before joining the CFER, Jonathan was a postdoctoral fellow concurrently with Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) and the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada). Jonathan received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, his MSc from Dalhousie University, and his BSc from Queen’s University.
Dr. Fisher has potential graduate opportunities the MSc, PhD, and perhaps MMS or undergraduate. To inquire on future opportunities, you may contact Dr. Fisher directly.
Contributor to FISH 6001 ‘Ecology, management, and practice of North Atlantic fisheries’. Dr. Fisher taught the Northwest Atlantic ecosystems module within that course in 2017 and 2018.
Significant Publications:
Devine, B.M., L. Wheeland, and J.A.D. Fisher (in review) Baited remote underwater video estimates of benthic fish and invertebrate diversity within the eastern Canadian Arctic. Polar Biology.
Krumsick, K. and J.A.D. Fisher. (in review) Spatial and ontogenetic variation in trophic niche among recovering fish communities revealed by Bayesian modeling. PLoS ONE.
Pentz, B., N. Klenk, S. Ogle, and J.A.D. Fisher. (2018). Can Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) manage resources effectively during climate change? Marine Policy 92:13-20.
Devine, B.M., L. Wheeland, and J.A.D. Fisher. (2018). First estimates of Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) local abundances in Arctic waters. Scientific Reports. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-19115-x
Le Bris, A., J.A.D. Fisher, H.M. Murphy, P.S. Galbraith, M. Castonguay, T. Loher, and D. Robert. (2018). Migration patterns and putative spawning habitats of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence revealed by geolocation of pop-up satellite archival tags. ICES Journal of Marine Science 75:135-147.
Fisher, J.A.D., D. Robert, A. Le Bris, and T. Loher. (2017). Pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT) temporal data resolution affects interpretations of spawning behaviour of a commercially important teleost. Animal Biotelemetry. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-017-0137-8
Murphy, H.M., J.A.D. Fisher, A. Le Bris, M. Desgagnés, M. Castonguay, T. Loher, and D. Robert. (2017). Characterization of depth distributions, temperature associations, and seasonal migrations of Atlantic halibut in the Gulf of St. Lawrence using pop-up satellite archival tags. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 9:341-356.
