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The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory was founded in 1920 at the University of Toronto. Fisheries research by the laboratory became more strategic when F. E. J. Fry emerged as a leader in the 1940s. His field work, conducted iteratively with complementary laboratory work, invited questions about the fundamental niche, variation in year-class strength, and biogeography. His emphasis was on physiological ecology at the organism and population levels. His excellent working relationships with government administrators, fishermen, and other researchers led to the expansion of strategic fishery science. He initiated, for example, five data series that were continued by institutions after the series had served Fry's original needs. Thus questions about whitefish exploitation were succeeded by those about eutrophication, climatic change supplanted thermal effluents as a focus, and studies of muskellunge growth led to evaluations of stocking success and models of population dynamics. As an accomplished "prospector," Fry apparently knew that clear data would not only help to resolve current problems, they would also provoke unforeseeable scientific questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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