Bernard Megrey, known as Bern among his family and friends, passed away peacefully at his home on 1 October 2010, at the age of 60. He had just returned from the ICES Annual Science Conference in Nantes, France.
Bern was one of the driving forces when the idea of this book was born and virtually baptised during a late night/early morning at the ICES Annual Science Conference in Aalborg, Denmark during fall 1995. In the years following, the idea was further developed and finally turned into this book and the first edition was published in 2009. Bern's background was perfect for the book. During his doctoral research he started working for the NOAA, Alaska Fishery Science Center in Seattle, USA. He was assigned to the Groundfish Assessment Group, preparing the first stock assessment for the newly discovered walleye pollock fishery in the Gulf of Alaska. His work enabled a team of scientists to provide timely forecasts of abundance and biomass to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. In 1987, he started to work in the Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI) programme where his charge was to develop recruitment prediction models and oversee the analytical personnel. During his tenure in the FOCI programme, Bern continued to work on recruitment prediction, but also broadened his focus from single species to ecosystems. The Gulf of Alaska recruitment prediction model that he developed for walleye pollock is one of the few models that incorporate both environmental and biological data in predictions based on an underlying mechanistic model. Over the years he put a lot of effort into organisations such as ICES, PICES and AFS, both as a working group member and preparing theme sessions at annual conferences, resulting in several books and special issues of journals, where he acted as both co-editor and author. He served for six years (2001--2007) on the editorial board of the ICES Journal of Marine Science. Bern had an enormous working capacity and during his career he worked together with colleagues from many regions of the world. He had the gift of being positive, encouraging colleagues and enjoying discussing new ideas and technologies that could advance science.
As friends and colleagues, we are very grateful for the time we had together with Bern. He made our lives richer, influenced our way of thinking, and we are proud of what we were able to achieve together. Bern was too young when he passed away, he had so many ideas he wanted to work on and regrettably never will be able to pursue. We miss you!
Tore Jakobsen
Michael J. Fogarty
Erlend Moksness
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Names: Jakobsen, Tore, editor.
Title: Fish reproductive biology : implications for assessment and management / edited by Tore Jakobsen and three others.
Description: Second edition. | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015033704 | ISBN 9781118752746 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Fish stock assessment. | Fishes--Reproduction. | Recruitment (Population biology) | Fishery management. | BISAC: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Fisheries & Aquaculture.
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