Career
He is currently professor of aquatic and fishery science at the University of Washington. He focuses on conservation, natural resource management, fisheries stock assessment and risk analysis, and advises several international fisheries commissions and agencies. Ray Hilborn has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and several books
In 1992, Hilborn coauthored Quantitative fisheries stock assessment with Carl Walters.
In 1997, he coauthored The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data with Marc Mangel. In 2012, he coauthored Overfishing: what everyone needs to know with Ulrike Hilborn.
"Adaptive control of fishing systems", Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 33(1): 145-159. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
His major areas of current and past research interest include "Bayesian analysis of decision making in natural resources, adaptive management of renewable resources, the dynamics of the Serengeti ecosystem in east Africa, the role of hatcheries in management of Pacific salmon, the ability of institutions to learn from experience, statistical methods in testing dynamic ecological hypotheses, the analysis of migration and dispersal from mark–recapture data, and the ecological dynamics of fishing fleets.".
