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    Fishery biology of the sea cucumber Parastichopus californicus (Stimpson, 1857) from the San Juan Islands, Washington
    (2016) Mueller, Karl
    In the Northeast Pacific Ocean, the fishery potential of the California (or giant red) sea cucumber Parastichopus californicus (Stimpson, 1857) (Echinodermata: Aspidochirotida: Stichopodidae) was first identified in late 19th century reports prepared by government officials tasked with commoditizing novel marine resources (e.g., Swan 1886); however, viable commercial fisheries for P. californicus along the U. S. West Coast and the Pacific Coast of Canada were not established until nearly a century later (Bradbury 1990; Muse 1998) following the serial exploitation of sea cucumber fisheries elsewhere in the Pacific (Anderson et al. 2011). Initially managed passively during the 1970s and 1980s, these fisheries (gear types: diving and trawling) peaked about 25 years ago when annual landings of P. californicus exceeded four million pounds in Washington State alone (Bradbury and Conand 1991; Bradbury 1994; Carson et al. 2016). Recognizing that a turnabout from ineffectual management was needed, jurisdictions in the region began actively managing their sea cucumber fisheries in the mid-1990s. By the close of the 20th century, natural resource authorities coast-wide had implemented practices such as quota allocation systems based on catch histories and routine stock assessments, gear and harvest area restrictions and, in some jurisdictions, limiting entry to better manage P. californicus fisheries in the region (Woodby et al. 1993; Bradbury et al. 1998; Bruckner 2005; Hajas et al. 2011; Carson et al. 2016).
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    Oral History Interview with Paul Louis Illg, Former Curator of Invertebrate Biology National Museum of Natural History, 1947-1952
    (Smithsonian Institution Archives, Oral History Program, 1978-03-23) Henson, Pamela
    Paul Louis Illg (1914-1998) received his B.A. in 1936 and M.A. in 1941 from the University of California at Berkeley. He began his Ph.D. program at Berkeley but his studies were interrupted by World War II. After completing his wartime service, Illg was appointed Associate Curator of Invertebrate Zoology in the National Museum of Natural History from 1947 to 1952, while completing his Ph.D. at The George Washington University in 1952. Illg spent the remainder of his career at the University of Washington teaching zoology, as Assistant Professor in 1952, then Associate Professor, and Professor from 1969 to 1982. He specialized in the systematics of Crustacea, conducting fieldwork from the Friday Harbor Laboratories. Illg published prodigiously for more than fifty years on parasitic copepods, particularly those living in ascidians. His research on microscopic ascidicolous copepods greatly extended biological and taxonomic knowledge, and illuminated evolutionary processes in these extremely complex parasitic crustaceans.