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Trevor Branch is the Worthington Endowed Professor at the University of Washington's College of the Environment. His work centers on fisheries management, with a focus on solving real-life biological problems by synthesizing multiple data types and fitting mathematical models to data. His core interests have led him in various research directions, particularly toward global-scale analyses of fisheries, assessing their current status and future directions. He studies fishing impacts on marine food webs, detectable catches, and the ecological factors influencing patterns of fishery development. Additionally, he has a long-standing interest in the human dimension of fisheries, including fishing behavior, fleet dynamics, individual transferable quotas (catch shares), target stocks, and fishery discards. His major field of interest also includes the status and trends of large whale populations, leading to significant contributions in abundance estimation and understanding population size changes over time, notably in the separation of blue whale subspecies.
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