Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly is a Frenchborn marine biologist, well known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries. He is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia. He also served as Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre from November 2003 to October 2008.

Pauly was born in Paris, France. He grew up, however, in Switzerland in what was called a strange Dickensian childhood where he was forced to stay as a livein servant to a new family. For the firstyears of his life, Pauly lived an inward life as he was mixed race in an all white town, finding solace in booksreading and model construction. Athe ran away and put himself through high school in Wuppertal, Germany after one year working with disabled people for a local churchrun institution. His work led to a scholarship to the University of Kiel.

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