Pighead prickleback COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

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Biographical Summary of Report Writer

Alex E. Peden received his master’s degree from the University of British Columbia in 1964 and doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. After receiving a postdoctoral appointment at the National Museum of Canada, he was appointed Curator of Marine Biology at the British Columbia Provincial Museum in 1971. He participated in ichthyological collection and/or fisheries work in southeastern USA, Mexico, Northwest Territories, Alaska, Bering Sea and waters adjacent to British Columbia. During his first employment with the Arctic Unit of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Peden had the good fortune to experience gill netting and the local fishery during a summer off the Mackenzie Delta. He devoted much of his career to documenting the diversity of fish species off the Canadian West Coast. Peden documented the first occurrences of more than 60 marine fish species inhabiting marine waters off British Columbia. He has contributed to various COSEWIC status reports of western Canadian fish species since 1980.