Final Advisory Letter
Final report of the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council in its role as advisors on wild Pacific salmon and steelhead stocks and habitat.
Beamish, Richard (Dick)
Member
Dr. Dick Beamish is Senior Scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo where he was its Director from 1980 to 1993.
Early in his distinguished career in science, he studied freshwater fish and was the first to recognize the impact of acid rain on freshwater fisheries in North America. He has made significant research contributions to the biology of groundfish in British Columbia waters, discovering that some rockfish live to be 100 years old.
Dr. Beamish has been active in international fisheries in the North Pacific and has collaborated widely with foreign scientists on a variety of issues, more recently on identification of the impacts of climate change on fish stocks.
He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and is an Affiliate-Professor at Malaspina University College. In 1998, Dr. Beamish was named a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to fisheries science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.