Extensive experience in developing (Africa and Asia) and developed countries (UK, Europe and Australia) in management strategies for freshwater bodies and aquaculture. Presently teaching Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses on Fisheries Ecology, Inland Fisheries Management, Fisheries Resources, and Aquatic Ecology. Also a major contributor to short courses run both in-house and overseas on rehabilitation of inland fisheries, aquatic resource management planning, electric fishing, stocking and introduction of fish, and fish stock assessment. Currently researching into fish capture techniques, stock assessment for management purposes, rehabilitation of inland fisheries and aquatic resource management planning. Considerable consultancy experience in rehabilitation techniques for freshwater fisheries, integrated aquatic resource management planning, environmental impact assessment, particularly associated with water resources development schemes, and aquaculture extension.

Brief CV

Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer, University of Hull, 1989-

Senior Lecturer, Humberside College of Higher Education, 1985-1989

Scientific Officer, Severn-Trent Water Authority, 1978-1985

PhD, University of Exeter, 1975-1979

BSc (Hons) Zoology, University of Liverpool, 1971-1975

Selected Publications

Beard, T. D., Arlinghaus, R., Cooke, S. J., McIntyre, P. B., de Silva, S., Bartley, D. & Cowx, I. G. (2011). Ecosystem approach to inland fisheries: research needs and implementation strategies. Biology Letters 7, 481-483.

Welcomme, R. L., Cowx, I. G., Coates, D., Béné, C., Funge-Smith, S., Halls, A. & Lorenzen, K. (2010). Inland capture fisheries. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365, 2881-2896.

Arlinghaus, R., Cooke, S. J., Schwab, A. & Cowx, I. G. (2007). Fish welfare: a challenge to the feelings-based approach, with implications for recreational fishing. Fish and Fisheries 8, 57-71.

Reyjol, Y., Hugueny, B., Pont, D., Bianco, P. G., Beier, U., Caiola, N., Casals, F., Cowx, I. G., Economou, A., Ferreira, T., Haidvogl, G., Noble, R. A. A., de Sostoa, A., Vigneron, T. & Virbickas, T. (2007). Patterns in species richness and endemism of European freshwater fish. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16, 65-75.

Cooke, S. J. & Cowx, I. G. (2004). The role of recreational fishing in global fish crises. BioScience 54, 857-859.

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Teaching

External duties

Editor of Fisheries Management and Ecology.

Chairman of East Yorkshire Chalk Rivers Trust.