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Fisheries Scientist Under Fire For Undisclosed Seafood Industry Funding [1]

"A prominent and outspoken fisheries scientist at the University of Washington is under attack from Greenpeace for not disclosing industry funding in several scientific papers stretching back to 2006.

Greenpeace calls Ray Hilborn, a professor at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, a "denier of overfishing," and says he has received at least $3.56 million in funding from dozens of fishing and seafood industry groups over a 12-year period. Greenpeace claims that on several occasions, Hilborn failed to disclose those affiliations in published scientific papers.

"This is about a person who is the most vocal critic of marine conservation efforts. And it turns out that he has received millions of dollars from industry and failed to consistently disclose those conflicts of interest appropriately," says John Hocevar, Greenpeace campaign director."

Clare Leschin-Hoar reports for NPR May 12, 2016. [2]

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Source: NPR [2], 05/13/2016
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fisheries-scientist-under-fire-undisclosed-seafood-industry-funding [2] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/12/477827180/fisheries-scientist-becomes-latest-target-of-activist-s-records-requests [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81