Buckland Foundation Professorship awarded to Dr Julian Addison of Cefas

Dr Julian Addison, our senior advisor on shellfish, has been appointed as Buckland Foundation Professor for 2004.

Frank Buckland (1826 - 1880) was a pioneer in fishery research and sat on four British Government Commissions that looked at fish and fishing. After his death, the Buckland Foundation was formed and immediately established a professorship of Economic Fish Culture, which has been an annual appointment since 1930. The current Trustees are Drs S.J. Lockwood and R.G. Shelton and Baroness Wilcox of Plymouth.

The subject of Julian's professorship will be crabs and their UK fisheries, and he intends to produce both an update of the lectures and book produced by Eric Edwards 25 years ago, as well as to cover the emerging fisheries for velvet and spider crabs. Traditionally, Buckland professors give three public lectures (either the same at different venues, or three separate ones developing an emerging theme) and produce a book on their subject within two years of their professorship year.