Steven J. Cooke (www.fecpl.ca) is a professor and Canada Research Chair at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His research is focused on the ecology and conservation of wild marine and freshwater fish. Cooke currently serves as the President of the International Fisheries Section of the American Fisheries Society, Secretary of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, and founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conservation Physiology. He has received the Medal from the Fisheries Society of the British Isles, the Award of Excellence in Fisheries Management from the American Fisheries Society, and is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.