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Dr. Fred Whoriskey

Job Title: Vice President, Research and Environment
Employer: Atlantic Salmon Federation
Place of Birth: Cambridge, MA, USA
Public School attended: Newton MA
High School attended: Newton (North) High School
Further Education: Brown University (B.Sc.), Universite Laval (Ph.D.).
Geographic focus of research: New Brunswick, Quebec, USA, Russia

Brief synopsis of current research:
Restoration of Atlantic salmon populations. Salmonid ecology. Impacts of exotic species. Fish behaviour.

Website:
www.asf.ca

Recent Publications:

Ricciardi, A., F. G. Whoriskey and J. B. Rasmussen. Impact of the Dreissena invasion on native unionid bivalves in the upper St. Lawrence River. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53: 1434 - 1444

Whoriskey, F. G., S. Prusov and S. Crabbe. In press. Evaluation of the effects of catch-and-release fisning on the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) of the Ponoi river, Kola Peninsula, Russian Federation. Ecology of Freshwater Fish