Dr. Robert Stickney

Dr. Robert R. Stickney has been director of the Texas Sea Grant College Program since January 1996. He is responsible for overall management of the program, its budget and the fine, dedicated personnel associated with Texas Sea Grant.

Stickney received his B.S. in Zoology at the University of Nebraska, M.A. in Zoology at the University of Missouri and Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography at Florida State University. His career has been largely focused on aquaculture, though he has also been involved in coastal and estuarine ecology. He has conducted research and published on a wide variety of aquaculture species, including channel catfish, tilapia, freshwater shrimp, Atlantic and Pacific salmon and Pacific halibut. He has experience in more than 20 countries as a short-term consultant, advisor or member of a research team.

He began his professional career at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in 1971 and joined the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in 1976. He advanced through the ranks and left Texas A&M to assume the position of Director of the Fisheries Research Laboratory and Professor of Zoology at Southern Illinois University in 1984. After 18 months in Illinois, he accepted the position of Professor and Director of the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington in September 1985. He remained in Seattle until he assumed his current position when he returned to Texas A&M in 1996. In addition to being Texas Sea Grant Director, Stickney is also a Professor in the Department of Oceanography. He served as interim head of the department for 13 months in 2006-2007.

Stickney has written more than 100 refereed journal articles and is the author of several books and book chapters. He has also contributed articles to a number of encyclopedias. He is currently the editor-in-chief of World Aquaculture, the magazine of the World Aquaculture Society, and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Reviews in Fisheries Science. He is past-president of the World Aquaculture Society, the Fish Culture and Education Sections of the American Fisheries Society, and the Sea Grant Association.

Selected Recent Publications:

Stickney, R. 2009. Aquaculture: An Introductory Text (2nd Edition). CABI, Oxfordshire, UK. 304 p.

Stickney, R.R., and J.P. McVey (editors). 2002. Responsible marine aquaculture. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxon, United Kingdom.  391 p.

Clegg, M.T., P.K. Barten, I.A. Fleming, M.R. Gross, L.S. Incze, A.R. Kapuscinski, P.Y. O’Brien, B. Neis, N. Ryman, P.E. Smouse, J.L. Specker, R.R. Stickney, and J.G. Sutinen. 2004. Atlantic Salmon in Maine. National Academy Press. 275 p.

Stickney, R.R. 2005. Aquaculture: An Introductory Text. CABI Publishing, Oxfordshire, Great Britain. 265 p.

Iwamoto and M. Rust (Eds.). 2007. Aquaculture and Stock Enhancement of Finfish: Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth U.S.-Japan Aquaculture Panel Meeting, San Diego, California, November 7-9, 2005. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memo. NMFS-F/SP-83. 82 p.

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