Dr. A. T. Charles

Anthony T. Charles, Ph.D.Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation
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Dr. Anthony Charles, Ph.D. ProfessorSt. Mary's UniversityHalifax, NS B3H 3C3 CANADA
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Tony Charles focuses on the dual themes of uncertainty and sustainability in marine systems, drawing on methods of natural resource modeling, systems research, ecological economics, and policy analysis.He has an extensive record of interdisciplinary research and teaching on fisheries, aquaculture, and coastal management combined with practical experience with fishery agencies and fisher organizations at local, national and international levels.His current research focuses on three areas: community-based management, development of fishery indicators, and developing policies that support the sustainability of fisheries and coastal areas.

Charles has worked on a wide variety of fishery matters on Canada's Pacific and Atlantic coasts.Following the collapse of the Northern cod in Atlantic Canada, he was appointed in 1993 to a newly created co-management body, the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council, charged with developing conservation measures to deal with the fishery crisis.He served on the FRCC for five years, chairing its Management and Regulations Committee and helping to produce a ground-breaking conservation framework for Atlantic Canadian groundfish.Charles has become well-known as an analyst and commentator on sustainability issues in Atlantic Canadian fisheries.Since 2001, he has served as Director of Canada's Ocean Management Research Network (OMRN), a network supporting research on human uses of the ocean, and the management of those uses, and linking researchers and research users across Canada.

Internationally, Charles has worked for many years on projects for Canada's International Development Research Centre, the International Oceans Institute, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and other agencies, notably on interdisciplinary team projects examining aquatic biodiversity conservation, integrated aquaculture, and fishery socioeconomics, as well as on studies of sustainability indicators in fisheries, coastal zones and watershed systems.He has been a professor of Management Science and Environmental Studies at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Canada, since 1985.He is the author or co-author of more than 80 publications, including the book Sustainable Fishery Systems, as well as Canadian Marine Fisheries in a Changing and Uncertain World, and a component of the FAO Fishery Manager's Guidebook.

Pew Fellowship Project Tony Charles used his fellowship to provide a positive, conservation-oriented response to Canada's 1999 "Marshall Decision," which recognizes native commercial fishing rights.The vision of his intiative-entitled "Turning the Tide: Communities Managing Fisheries Together"- is to make community-based fisheries management a prominent form of fisheries management in Atlantic Canada.Charles sees his path to this goal as promoting and supporting the management of fisheries at a community level, because he believes that the sustainability of fisheries is tied closely to local-level management and to the development of cooperative endeavors linking natives and non-natives.
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de Young, B., R. M. Peterman, A. R. Dobell, E. Pinkerton, Y. Breton, A. T. Charles, M. J. Fogarty, G. R. Munro and C. Taggart.
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Charles, A.T. 1998.Beyond the status quo: Re-thinking fishery management.In: Re-inventing Fisheries Management (T. Pitcher, D. Pauly and P. Hart eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Charles, A.T. 1998.Fisheries in transition.
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Charles, A.T. 1998.Living with uncertainty in fisheries: Analytical methods, management priorities and the Canadian groundfishery experience.Fisheries Research 37:37-50.

Charles, A.T. 1997.Sustainability indicators: An annotated bibliography with emphasis on fishery systems, coastal zones and watersheds.In: Strategy for International Fisheries Research.FAO, Ottawa, Canada.

Charles, A.T. 1995.The Atlantic Canadian groundfishery: Roots of a collapse.Dalhousie law journal 18:65-83.

Charles, A.T. 1994.Towards sustainability: The fishery experience.Ecological Economics 11:201-211.