[Coral-List] Giant in fish conservation, Ransom Myers, passes away

[Douglas Fenner]

Ransom Myers published groundbreaking studies of the overfishing of cod, large predatory fish, and sharks, among other things.  He published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including regularly publishing in Science.  Another of his articles on sharks just appeared in the current issue of Science, with some of his many co-authors: "Cascading effects of the loss of apex predatory sharks from a coastal ocean."

 Read more about Myers and his contributions to marine research on the CBC website at

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/science/070328/g032819A.html

For more of the amazing story of Cod, we recommend the small book,

Kurlansky, M.  1997.  Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world.  Walker, New York.

 -Doug Fenner and Janet Ley