[1][2][3] After a MSc from Cambridge University Allen arrived in New Zealand and worked for what was to become the DSIR for many years on fisheries matters.
[1] Allen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1961.
[1] 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.
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 Norway, the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, Japan or Britain, the countries conducting the whaling they were to study.
However the whaling countries first adopted interim, compromise quotas which were higher than recommended.