Peter Anthony Larkin, OC OBC FRSC (1924–1996) was a fisheries scientist who spent most of his career at the University of British Columbia.
[1][2][3] After his PhD at the Exeter College, Oxford, he moved to Canada as the Chief Fisheries Biologist of British Columbia, in a joint appointment between the provincial government and the University of British Columbia (UBC).
At UBC, he later served as the Head of the Department of Zoology (1972–1975), as the Dean of Graduate Studies (1975–1984), and as the Vice President of Research (1986–1988).
He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, the Fry Medal of the Canadian Society of Zoologists in 1978, and the American Fisheries Society Award of Excellence in 1984.
[4] By early 2018, Google Scholar listed more than 900 citations[5] to Larkin's "An epitaph for the concept of maximum sustained yield", an essay based on his keynote lecture at the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting in 1976.