Scott Wallace - David Suzuki Foundation

Former Senior Research Scientist

Expertise: Marine conservation, species at risk, sustainable fisheries, marine protected areas, citizen science

Articles by Scott

Thriving nature

The ins and outs of oceans

Science and Learning Centre resources

Biodiversity, Oceans and fresh water

August 2021

The role and value of science in shark conservation advocacy

David S. Shiffman, Catherine C. Macdonald, Scott Wallace, Nicholas K. Dulvy

Findings suggest many environmental advocates are aware of key scientific results and use science-based arguments in their advocacy, but a small but vocal subset of advocates report that they never read the scientific literature or speak to scientists.

Oceans and fresh water

January 2021

Pacific Marine Conservation Caucus response to draft 2020-21 Pacific herring IFMP

Scott Wallace, Karen Wristen, Misty MacDuffee, Aaron Hill

This letter to the herring resource manager is part of the annual consultation process. It outlines how and why Fisheries and Oceans Canada should adopt an ecosystem-based precautionary approach to the Pacific herring fishery in the Strait of Georgia.

Oceans and fresh water, Biodiversity

October 2015

One Change, Two Wins: How Adding Lights to Trawl Nets Can Help Eulachon and B.C.’s Shrimp Fishery

Scott Wallace

Bycatch is a big problem for fisheries. The Foundation is supporting trials in the shrimp fishery using LED lights to reduce eulochon bycatch. The results are promising and efforts continue to change Canada's policy that doesn't permit lights while fishing.

Former Senior Research Scientist

Articles by Scott

Salish Sea orcas and Chinook nearly absent this season

Canada’s high-stakes herring fishery gamble

Fish Trap: How poor labelling undermines efforts to make fisheries sustainable

Canada is missing the boat on seafood labelling

Saving the whales, and the whale watchers

Ideology, not ecology, guiding seal-cull decisions

Orca survival depends on protecting Chinook salmon

Shocking migratory changes bring electric rays to Canada’s Pacific

Digging science: Citizens amplify knowledge about the natural world

The ins and outs of oceans

Science and Learning Centre resources

The role and value of science in shark conservation advocacy

Pacific Marine Conservation Caucus response to draft 2020-21 Pacific herring IFMP

One Change, Two Wins: How Adding Lights to Trawl Nets Can Help Eulachon and B.C.’s Shrimp Fishery

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