Jonas Axel Boeck

Jonas Axel Boeck (16 May 1833 – 6 May 1873) was a Norwegian marine biologist.

Although he was somewhat overshadowed by his successors Georg Ossian Sars and Johan Hjort, Boeck was a pioneer of fisheries science.

He was the first Norwegian fisheries scientist, and the country's first herring researcher.

[1] His major works were Crustacea Amphipoda Borealia et Arctica (1870), about northern amphipods, and Om Silden og Sildefiskerierne, navnlig om det norske Vaarsildfisket (1871), on the Atlantic herring and its fishery.

[1] In the latter, Boeck attempted to investigate periodicity in herring by examining archival data, and combining scientific and historical approaches.