La fin du poisson

Jean-Paul Troadec, one of France’s pioneers in multidisciplinary fisheries science, died of cancer on August 30th, 2003.

Dr Troadec was a retired senior scientist from IRD-France (formerly ORSTOM). He joined ORSTOM in the 1960’s and soon became one of the leaders in the field of fisheries science in France. After spending several years in Ivory Coast at the Oceanographic Research Centre in Abidjan, he joined the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO, Rome) where he played a major role in its fisheries department. In the early 1980’s, he became Director of the French Fisheries Research Institute known as ISTPM and initiated the merging with CNEXO that lead to the inception of IFREMER. Jean Paul Troadec was a brilliant scientist and a visionary. He had a major impact in fisheries science by initiating multidisciplinary GLOBEC-type research projects such as the French PNDR (Programme National sur le Déterminisme du Recrutement) in the mid-1980’s. He was also one of the first fisheries scientists to highlight the importance of economic factors in controlling over-fishing and to emphasize the importance of access rights. Dr Troadec was a well respected fisheries expert at national and international level. The GLOBEC community wishes to express its condolences to his family and to the French scientific community.

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