UAF fisheries pioneer dies
UAF fisheries pioneer dies
Submitted by Doug Schneider
Phone: (907) 474-7449
04/18/06
John Doyle, an Alaska fisheries pioneer who established the UAF Marine Advisory Program and worked to improve the seafood industry across the state, passed away at home in Anchorage, April 8, 2006, at the age of 72.
A service will be announced.
Doyle was born July 18, 1933, to Thomas Doyle and Winnifred Rahn in Milwaukee. He was raised in western Wisconsin, graduating from Ellsworth, Wis., High School in 1951. He served in the U.S. Army from 1952 to 1956 and was honorably discharged as a sergeant.
After obtaining a degree in fisheries at the University of Washington, Mr. Doyle worked as a fisheries biologist for the Department of Natural Resources at the University of Saskatchewan. He later accepted a position at the University of Alaska to develop a fisheries extension program in Alaska.
Doyle was particularly effective in bringing information on fisheries biology and seafood technology to villages in western and northern Alaska.
When the Alaska Sea Grant College Program was established in 1980, he obtained funding for marine extension positions and the program became known as the Marine Advisory Program.