William (Wai Lung) Cheung completed his Ph.D. at the UBC Fisheries Centre in May 2007. His Ph.D. thesis is on the vulnerability of marine fish to fishing and its implications to conservation and fishery management. William is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sea Around Us Project, UBC Fisheries Centre. He is working with Professor Daniel Pauly to evaluate impacts of climate change on global fisheries.

William obtained a BSc. (Biology) in 1998, and subsequently a M.Phil. in 2001 from the University of Hong Kong. His master research focused on the use of local and traditional knowledge in understanding the change in fisheries and marine ecosystem in Hong Kong. After finishing his master degree, he joined the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) Hong Kong as an Assistant Conservation Officer. At the same time, he was working with the research team at the UBC Fisheries Centre on ecosystem restoration in Hong Kong. Besides, he served as member in the advisory group on fisheries management for the Hong Kong government, and was an executive committee member of the Hong Kong Marine Conservation Society.

Selected Publications

Cheung W.W.L., R. Watson, T. Morato, T.J. Pitcher and D. Pauly (2007). Intrinsic vulnerability in the global fish catch. Marine Ecology Progress Series 333: 1-12.

Cheung W.W.L., T.J. Pitcher and D. Pauly (2007). Using an expert system to evaluate vulnerabilities and conservation risk of marine fishes from fishing. In: Chapter 2, Lipshitz A.P. (ed.). Progress in Expert Systems Research. Nova Science Publishers, New York (in press).

Watson, R., A. Kitchingman, and W.W.L. Cheung (2007) Catches from world seamount fisheries. In: Chapter 18, Pitcher, T.J., Morato, T., Hart, P.J.B., Clark, M.R., Haggan, N. and Santos, R.S. (eds.) Seamounts: Ecology, Conservation and Management. Fish and Aquatic Resources Series, Blackwell, Oxford, UK. (in press).

Cheung W.W.L. and T.J. Pitcher (2006). Designing fisheries management policies that conserve marine species diversity in the Northern South China Sea. In: Kruse G. H., Gallucci D. E., Hay R. I., Perry R. I., Peterman R. M., Shirley T. C., Spencer P. D., Wilson B., Woodby D. (eds.) Fisheries Assessment and Management in Data-limited Situations. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska, p. 439-466.

Morato T., W.W.L. Cheung, T.J. Pitcher (2006). Vulnerability of seamount fish to fishing: fuzzy analysis of life-history attributes. Journal of Fish Biology 67:1-13.

Cheung W.W.L., T.J. Pitcher, D. Pauly (2005). A fuzzy logic expert system to estimate intrinsic extinction vulnerability of marine fishes to fishing. Biological Conservation 124:97-111

Cheung, W.W.L., J. Alder, K. Vasiliki, R. Watson, V. Lam, C. Day, K. Kaschner and D. Pauly (2005). Patterns of Species Richness in the High Seas. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Montreal, Technical Series no. 20, 31 p.

Cheung, W.W.L., C. Ainsworth, J. Simms and E.A. Buchary (2005). Tools to reconcile fisheries with conservation. In: Chuenpagdee, R., Bundy, A. (eds.) Innovation and Outlook in Fisheries: An Assessment of Research Presented at the 4th World Fisheries Congress. Fisheries Centre Research Report 13(2): 49-55.

Cheung W.W.L. and Y. Sadovy (2004). Retrospective evaluation of data-limited fisheries: a case from Hong Kong. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 181-206

Sadovy Y and W.L. Cheung (2003). Near extinction of a highly fecund fish: the one that nearly got away. Fish and Fisheries 4:86-99.

Buchary, E., W.W.L. Cheung, U.R. Sumaila, and T.J. Pitcher (2003). Back to the future: A paradigm shift for restoring Hong Kong's marine ecosystem. In B. Phillips, B.A. Megrey, and Y. Zhou (eds.). Proceedings of the Third World Fisheries Congress: Feeding the World with Fish in the Next Millennium - The Balance Between Population and Environment. American Fisheries Society Symposium 38: 727-746. Cheung Beijing2003

Cheung, W.L., R. Watson and T.J. Pitcher (2002). Policy Simulation on the fisheries of Hong Kong marine ecosystem. Fisheries Centre Research Report 10(2): 46-53

Cheung, W. L. (2001). Changes in Hong Kong's capture fisheries during the 20th century and reconstruction of the marine ecosystem of local inshore waters in the 1950s. M.Phil. thesis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 186 pp.