George Armytage Rounsefell

11 Feb 1905 – 26 Dec 1976

Born in Ketchikan, Alaska, he was the son of George F. Rounsefell and Lilian L. P. Thompson. A Stanford graduate and marine biologist, he worked for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and published extensively on U.S. salmon and herring.

• Ecology, utilization, and management of marine fisheries
• A method of estimating abundance of groundfish on Georges Bank
• Contribution to the biology of the Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii
• Factors causing decline in sockeye salmon of Karluk River, Alaska
• Fecundity of North American Salmonidae
• Fishery science
• Large-scale experimental test of copper sulfate as a control for the Florida red tide
• Relationships among North American Salmonidae