LEADING scientist Dr Colin Bannister has retired from CEFAS after 41 years in fisheries science.
Dr Bannister's early work was on the biology and assessment of North Sea and Icelandic flatfish. This background enabled him, during the late 1970s, to help member states and the European Commission establish a framework for the CFP.
He declined the offer of a permanent position in Brussels, preferring to progress his science at Lowestoft in support of the UK fishing industry.
He then moved onto the problems of shellfisheries – lobster, crabs, scallops, cockles, muscles, razors – and worked closely with the shellfish industry.
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