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Hjort, Johan (Norway 1869-1948)
marine & fisheries biology
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Johan Hjort was among the most prominent fisheries biologists of his time. Hjort was a strong advocate of scientific modeling procedures for fisheries biology whose population studies contributed to the development of the maximum yield and optimum yield concepts, and age determination analysis. His 1914 article "Fluctuations in the Great Fisheries of Northern Europe" was a pivotal work in the development of fisheries science. Hjort was also active in those areas of international law and diplomacy affecting fisheries, a founder of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, and the author of several books on more philosophical subjects of a biological nature. |
Life Chronology
--born in Oslo, Norway, on 18 February 1869.
--1897: discovers commercially exploitable stocks
of Pandalus borealis
--1902: Ph.D., University of Munich
--1900-1916: founder and first director of the
Norwegian governmental fisheries at Bergen
--1910: takes part in the Michael Sars
oceanographic expedition in the North Atlantic
--1912: publishes his The
Depths of the Ocean, with John Murray
--1914: publishes "Fluctuations in the Great
Fisheries of Northern Europe" in Rapports et Procès-Verbaux
des Réunions du Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la
Mer
--1916: elected as a foreign member to
the Royal Society of London
--1920-1938: vice-president, International Council
for the Exploration of the Sea
--1921: publishes his The
Unity of Science
--1921-1939: professor of marine biology,
Oslo University
--1926: publishes "Fluctuations in the Year
Classes of Important Food Fishes" in the Journal du Conseil
--1932-1938: publishes articles on the
over-exploitation of whale stocks
--1938-1948: president, International Council
for the Exploration of the Sea
--1938: publishes his The Human Value of
Biology
--dies at Oslo, Norway, on 7 October 1948.
For Additional Information, See:
--Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol.
6 (1972).
--Nature, Vol. 162(4124) (1948): 764-766.
--Journal du Conseil, Vol. 16(1) (1949):
3-8.
--ICES Marine Science Symposia, Vol.
215 (2002): 39-44.
--ICES Marine Science Symposia, Vol. 215 (2002): 329-335.
--ICES
Marine Science Symposia, Vol. 215 (2002): 515-522.
--Obituary Notices of
Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 7 (1950): 167-181.
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