Dr. Jonathan Fisher has been named the Marine Institute’s Research Chair in Marine Fisheries Ecosystems Dynamics.
The research chair was created to help understand and quantify how environmental conditions, marine food chain interactions and fishing activities affect the population dynamics and sustainable use of marine species and their ecosystems in Newfoundland and Labrador waters and the eastern Canadian Arctic.
It aims to improve scientific advice supporting sustainable fisheries management of established and emerging fisheries.
This research is supported by combined funding of $500,000 over five years from the Robert and Edith Skinner Wildlife Management Fund and the Marine Institute.