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Place of Birth: Orillia, Ontario, Canada
About Jeffrey A. Hutchings
- Jeffrey A.
- Hutchings (born 11 September 1958) is a Canadian-born fisheries scientist, Professor of Biology, and Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Chair in Fish, Fisheries, and Oceans at Dalhousie University.
- He is well known for his work on the evolution of fish life histories and on the collapse, recovery, and sustainable harvesting of marine fishes.
- In addition to being Chair of a 2012 Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on Marine Biodiversity (and member of a 2001 Expert Panel on genetically modified foods), he chaired Canada's national science body (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) responsible, by law, for advising the Canadian federal Minister of the Environment on species at risk of extinction.
- Past-President and Co-Founder of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science) in 2015.
- In 2017, he was awarded the international A.G.
- Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences.
- He was elected Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2018.
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