Marine Scientist Ransom Myers Dies
Posted on: Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 18:00 CDT
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - Ransom Myers, a Canadian scientist renowned for his groundbreaking research and blunt warnings about the extinction of marine species, has died from brain cancer, according to colleagues at Dalhousie University. He was 54.
Myers passed away Tuesday in Halifax after an illness linked to an inoperable brain tumor.
Myers, a marine biologist who'd been a vocal critic of Ottawa's management of Canadian fisheries, was admitted to the hospital last November after a sudden diagnosis of brain cancer.
Family and friends were saying little Wednesday about the biologist, who leaves behind his wife and five children.
Boris Worm, a biology professor who wrote several papers with Myers, described his colleague as a "deeply, deeply honest person" who informed the world about the dire state of the marine environment.
In a study published in 2003, Myers, who held the first Killam chair of ocean studies at Dalhousie University, found that global industrial fishing had cut populations of large fish, such as tuna, swordfish and marlin, to a mere 10 percent of 1950 levels.
At the time, Myers said bluntly that the world was in "massive denial" and spending its energy fighting over the few fish left instead of cutting catch limits before it's too late.
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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