Kevin Friedland

Kevin Friedland is a researcher with the National Marine Fisheries Service at the Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island. He holds a bachelors degree in ecology from Rutgers College in New Jersey and a doctorate from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. His dissertation research was on the distribution and feeding ecology of Atlantic menhaden. During his professional career he has done research on menhaden, bluefish, sea herring, sturgeon, eel, haddock, and salmon. His publications cover a range of topics including: estuarine ecology of fishes, functional morphology, feeding ecology, recruitment processes, fisheries oceanography, and stock identification. His current research is on the effects of growth on the early maturation and survival of Atlantic salmon and the factors controlling the recruitment of haddock. Dr. Friedland has served as chair of several ICES committees including the North Atlantic Salmon Working Group, the Study Group on Stock Identification, and the ICES standing committee on Anadromous and Catadromous Fishes.