| Citation | Dr John Shepherd, an applied candidate, is distinguished for his work on fish populations and their management. The new science he created included a method of estimating the efficiency of fishing, a stock/recruitment relationship and the extended survivor analysis. He wrote accounts of current problems for the fishermen which are models of clarity. In the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea he established the methods working group, a most important step.
He has also written papers on production models in the sea, on the effect of climatic variation on fish stocks on the disposal of the Brent Spar, and with Pope, on the size spectra of survival. He is at present Director of the Southampton Oceanography Centre. |