Ted Ames (born 1939) is a Maine fisherman, and former
hatchery
A hatchery is a facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish, poultry or even turtles. It may be used for ex-situ conservation purposes, i.e. to breed rare or endangered species under controlled condit ...
director of
Penobscot East Resource Center.
Life
He graduated from the
University of Maine
The University of Maine (UMaine or UMO) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universities, flagshi ...
with a master's degree in biochemistry. He mapped the
fish spawning
Fish are Aquatic animal, aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack Limb (anatomy), limbs with Digit (anatomy), digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous and bony fish as we ...
grounds over time showing a loss of productive grounds.
He was a Scholar-in-Residence at
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as well as several joint eng ...
in
Brunswick, Maine
Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 21,756 at the 2020 United States Census. Part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, Brunswick is home to Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin Intern ...
2010–2011.
Awards
* 2005
MacArthur Fellows Program
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...
* 2007 University of Maine Geddes W. Simpson Distinguished Lecture
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See also
*
List of American fishers
This is a list of American fishers, denoting fishers who have been involved in various aspects of fishing, commercial fishing and recreational fishing.
American fishers
* Joseph H. Acklen
* Ted Ames – a Maine fisherman, and former hatchery ...
References
External links
Alec Wilkinson, Profiles, “The Lobsterman,” The New Yorker, July 31, 2006, p. 56"Ted Ames" ''Maine Public Broadcasting Network, February 28, 2008
"The Future of Fish" ''On Point'', November 7, 2006
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1939 births
University of Maine alumni
American fishers
MacArthur Fellows
Living people
People from Hancock County, Maine