Feature Presentations

Re-interpreting the Fisheries Crisis

Bicomplexity and Fisheries Sustainability

Select Publications

  • Hilborn, R., J. M. Orensanz, and A. M. Parma. 2005. Institutions, incentives and the future of fisheries. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 360:47-57.
  • Hilborn, R., P. Arcese, M. Borner, J. Hando, G. Hopcraft, M. Loibooki, S. Mduma and A.R.E. Sinclair. 2006. Effective enforcement in a conservation area. Science 314:1266-1266.

Ray Hilborn is a professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington specializing in natural resource management and conservation. He currently serves as an advisor to several international fisheries commissions and agencies as well as teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in conservation, fisheries stock assessment and risk analysis. He authored “Quantitative fisheries stock assessment” with Carl Walters in 1992, and “The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data” with Marc Mangel, in 1997.

Major areas of current and past research interest include Bayesian analysis of decision making in natural resources, adaptive management of renewable resources, the dynamics of the Serengeti ecosystem in east Africa, the role of hatcheries in management of Pacific salmon, the ability of institutions to learn from experience, statistical methods in testing dynamic ecological hypotheses, the analysis of migration and dispersal from mark–recapture data, and the ecological dynamics of fishing fleets. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada and received the Volvo Environmental Prize in 2006.