Tony Pitcher is a Professor at the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, formerly the Fisheries Centre, and from 1993 to 2003 was its Founding Director. Since gaining his PhD at Oxford University, UK, he has held academic positions in England (Imperial College, London), Wales (Bangor), Germany (Kiel) and Ireland (Ulster) and has worked at a leading international fisheries consultancy company (MRAG Ltd). He spent 2003/4 working for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy and in 2008 he was Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC. During his career he has published over 500 contributions, including 17 books (~19,300 citations, “h-index” = 66) and a well-regarded textbook “Fisheries Ecology” from 1982. To date he has trained 42 PhD students, many of whom now hold important positions worldwide. In 2003 Professor Pitcher was awarded the Beverton Medal for lifetime contributions to fisheries research, and he is the Founding Editor of the world’s leading journal in this field, Fish and Fisheries (Wiley-Blackwell) and also founded Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries in the 1980s. His research emphasises restoration ecology and the role of historical reconstruction in future policy options for the ocean. His work aims to analyze the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems, the development of analytical techniques for ecosystem-based management and the scientific, historical and social-ecological bases of policies leading to the restoration of biodiversity and human benefits. He has devised innovative techniques for evaluating the sustainability status of fisheries, compliance with the FAO (UN) Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, the implementation of ecosystem-based management, and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU). Recent research showed that 1 in 3 fish imported to the US are illegally sourced: this has led to improved documentation of sources. Some large projects have adopted a post-normal science account of uncertainty, such as the future of marine resources of the Canadian west coast, especially forage fish like herring, marine reserves and ecosystem-based management using simulation modelling> Case studies have been in Raja Ampat (Papua, Indonesia), the Sea of Cortez (Mexico), New South Wales (Australia), Chile, the Red Sea, and a freshwater lake invaded by zebra mussels (Mille Lacs, Minnesota). An international initiative based in the Azores (Portugal), led to a well-received 2008 book presenting a synthesis of seamount ecology, and in 2010 to a special issue of the interdisciplinary journal “Oceanography”. Recent service appointments include membership of the Scientific Advisory Boards for the Max Planck Institute, Ploen, Germany and for the MARE research consortium in Portugal; Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, Programme Chair for the 4th World Fisheries Congress in 2004, the Fisheries Compliance Panel for Canada’s west coast, and from 2011-2014 membership of the Marine Planning Advisory Committee for Haida Gwaii, where he has a 15 year association with Haida fisheries. Professor Pitcher is currently analysing fishery management options for forage fish, herring, that are in accord with ethical human values.