Kenneth Radway Allen (12 February 1911 – 16 February 2008) was a New Zealand fisheries biologist.

Academic career

After a MSc from

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Allen arrived in New Zealand and worked for what was to become the DSIR for many years on fisheries matters. In 1972 he moved to Cronulla, south of

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to become head of the

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Division of Fisheries and Oceanography, where he worked until he retired. Allen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1961. Since 1995, the Australian Society for Fish Biology has awarded the K. Radway Allen Award to researchers who have made "an outstanding contribution in fish or fisheries science.""K. Radway Allen Award"
Australian Society for Fish Biology, official website. Accessed 15 January 2016.Catherine Norwood (2013
"Fish biology and freshwater science join forces"
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. Archived 15 May 2017.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) and The Committee of Three

Allen worked on the

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's panel termed The Committee of Three that found new methods to calculate whaling quotas. The group analysed whaling data (catches, the number of whaling boats etc.) to come up with proposals for annual quotas for whales. The panel's report, in 1961, was the international whaling commission's first attempt to come up with quotas that would permit whaling while allowing the whale population to increase. The three scientists on the panel (Allen, Douglas G. Chapman and Sidney Holt) were selected because they specialized in fisheries research but were not officially connected with

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, the Soviet Union, the

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, the countries conducting the whaling they were to study. The quotas recommended were so much lower than usual that the whaling countries argued over them for many years but eventually they had to lower the quotas. However the whaling countries first adopted interim, compromise quotas which were higher than recommended.

References

1911 births 2008 deaths People from Hornsey Alumni of the University of Cambridge British emigrants to New Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand New Zealand ichthyologists 20th-century New Zealand zoologists {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub