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Graham Raby is a Ph.D. (Biology) candidate currently working under the supervision of Dr. Steven Cooke at Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) and Dr. Scott Hinch (UBC). Graham's research focuses on developing an understanding of the fate of Pacific salmon captured and released from fishing gear in recreational, First Nations, and commercial fisheries. He is also developing predictive measures of post-release mortality in discarded Pacific salmon, and evaluating methods for facilitating recovery from capture stress.
Graham's research is conducted on Fraser River stocks of Pacific salmon undergoing their upstream migration. For his reseach, he collaborates with First Nations, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, LGL Ltd. (environmental research associates), the Pacific Salmon Foundation, British Columbia's Area B Seine Society, as well as researchers at the University of British Columbia. His research techniques include the use of non-lethal physiological biopsy and heart-rate biologging (for measuring capture stress), radio and acoustic telemetry (for monitoring migration success in discarded fish), and the use of reflex impairment measurements (for predicting post-release fate).
Background
2009 - B.Sc. Honours Environmental & Resource Science - Trent University (Peterborough, ON).
Undergraduate thesis title (supervised by Dr. Michael Fox): Prey selection, consumption rate, and impacts on native benthic fishes of an invasive fish species, the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus), in its expansion phase
in the Trent River, Ontario
2011-2014 - NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship holder
Publications
Google scholar profile
Raby, G.D., J.R. Packer, A.J. Danylchuk, and S.J. Cooke. In Press. The understudied and underappreciated role of predation in the mortality of fish released from fishing gears. Fish and Fisheries DOI:10.1111/faf.12033 [pdf, 292 KB]
Nguyen, V.M., E.G. Martins, D. Robichaud, G.D. Raby, M.R. Donaldson, A.G. Lotto, W.G. Willmore, D.A. Patterson, A.P. Farrell, S.G. Hinch, and S.J. Cooke. In Press. Disentangling the roles of air exposure, gillnet injury, and facilitated recovery on the post-capture and release mortality and behavior of adult migratory sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in freshwater. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 00:000-000. (focused issue on conservation physiology)
Cooke, S.J., M.R. Donaldson, C.M. O’Connor, G.D. Raby, R. Arlinghaus, A.J. Danylchuk, K.C. Hanson, S.G. Hinch, T.D. Clark, D.A. Patterson, and C.D. Suski. 2013. The physiological consequences of catch-and-release angling: perspectives on experimental design, interpretation, extrapolation, and relevance to stakeholders. Fisheries Management and Ecology 20:268-287 [pdf, 298 KB]
Raby, G.D., S.J. Cooke, K.V. Cook, S.H. McConnachie, M.R. Donaldson, S.G. Hinch, C.K. Whitney, S.M. Drenner, D.A. Patterson, T.D. Clark, and A.P. Farrell. 2013. Resilience of pink salmon and chum salmon to simulated capture stress incurred upon arrival at spawning grounds. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 142:524-539 [pdf, 519 KB]
Donaldson, M.R., G.D. Raby, V.N. Nguyen, S.G. Hinch, D.A. Patterson, A.P. Farrell, M. Rudd, L.A. Thompson, C.M. O’Connor, A.H. Colotelo, S.H. McConnachie, K.V. Cook, D. Robichaud, K.K. English, and S.J. Cooke. 2013. Evaluation of a simple technique for recovering Pacific salmon from capture stress: integrating comparative physiology, biotelemetry, and social science to solve a conservation problem. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 70:90-100 [pdf, 833 KB]
Colotelo, A.C., G.D. Raby, C.T. Hasler, T.J. Haxton, K.E. Smokorowski, G. Blouin-Demers, and S.J. Cooke. 2013 . Northern pike bycatch in an inland commercial hoop net fishery: effects of water temperature and net tending frequency on injury, physiology, and survival. Fisheries Research 137:41-49 [pdf, 425 KB]
Nguyen, V.M., G.D. Raby, S.G. Hinch, and S.J. Cooke. 2012. Aboriginal fisher perspectives on use of telemetry technology to study adult Pacific salmon. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems 406:08 [pdf, 92 KB]
Donaldson, M.R., S.G. Hinch, G.D. Raby, D.A. Patterson, A.P. Farrell, and S.J. Cooke. 2012. Population-specific consequences of fisheries-related stressors on adult sockeye salmon. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 85:729-739 [pdf, 410 KB] (focused issue on intraspecific variation in physiology and behavior)
Cooke, S.J., S.G. Hinch, M.R. Donaldson, T.D. Clark, E.J. Eliason, G.T. Crossin, G.D. Raby, K.M. Jeffries, M. Lapointe, K. Miller, D.A. Patterson, and A.P. Farrell. 2012. Conservation physiology in practice: How physiological knowledge has improved our ability to sustainably manage Pacific salmon during up-river migration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367:1757-1769 [pdf, 744 KB] (invited contribution)
Nagrodski, A., G.D. Raby, C.T. Hasler, M.K. Taylor, and S.J. Cooke. 2012. Fish stranding in freshwater systems: sources, consequences, and mitigation. Journal of Environmental Management 103:133-141 [pdf, 1.3 MB]
Raby, G.D., M.R. Donaldson, S.G. Hinch, D.A. Patterson, A.G. Lotto, D. Robichaud, K.K. English, W.G. Willmore, A.P. Farrell, M.W. Davis, and S.J. Cooke. 2012. Validation of reflex indicators for measuring vitality and predicting the delayed mortality of wild coho salmon bycatch released from fishing gears. Journal of Applied Ecology 49:90-98 [pdf, 255 KB]
Donaldson, M.R., S.G. Hinch, D.A. Patterson, J. Hills, J.O. Thomas, S.J. Cooke, G.D. Raby, L.A. Thompson, D. Robichaud, K.K. English, and A.P. Farrell. 2011. The consequences of angling and beach seine capture on the physiology, post-release behaviour and survival of adult sockeye salmon during upriver migration. Fisheries Research 108:133-141 [pdf, 643 KB]
Raby, G.D., A.H. Colotelo, G. Blouin-Demers, and S.J. Cooke. 2011. Freshwater commercial bycatch: an understated conservation problem. Bioscience 61:271-280 [pdf, 231 KB]
Raby, G.D., L.F.G. Gutowsky, and M.G. Fox. 2010. Diet composition and consumption rate in round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in its expansion phase in the Trent River, Ontario. Environmental Biology of Fishes 89:143-150 [pdf, 271 KB] |
