Joseph H. Wales

Joseph Howe Wales (27 November 1907 – 21 August 2002) was an American

ichthyologist

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Career

Joseph Howe Wales was born on 27 November 1907 in Iowa City, Iowa. At the age of 10 he moved with his parents Robert W. and Laverne Sorter Wales to Pasadena, California. In 1926, before his graduation at high school he contributed to the journal Condor where he published articles about the band-tailed pigeon and gulls.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Together with

Devil's Hole pupfish.^[4] In 1935, he married Elizabeth Bangle, a mate from Stanford. He later worked as biological surveyor at the Bureau of Fish Conservation, California Division of Fish and Game in San Francisco, California,^[5] as District fisheries biologist in Mount Shasta,^[5] for the California Trout Investigation and at the California fish hatcheries. From 1959 to 1979 he served as Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology and pathologist at the Oregon State University

, where he analyzed liver cancer in rainbow trouts.

As a pastime Wales and his wife bred

Thoroughbred horses

at their residence at Mount Shasta. Wales was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Fisheries Society.

He died in Corvallis, Oregon on 21 August 2002.

Selected works

1932: Life History of the Blue Rockfish Sebastodes mystinus
1959: Trout of California
1972: Essential Fatty Acids in the Diet of Rainbow Trout (Salmo gairdneri): Physiological Symptoms of EFA Deficiency (w/ J D Castell, R O Sinnhuber, and D J Lee)
1983: Microscopic Anatomy of Salmonids (with William T. Yasutake)
Sinnhuber, RO; Hendricks JD; Wales JH; Putnam GB (1978-09-29). "Neoplasms in rainbow trout, a sensitive animal model for environmental carcinogenesis". Ann N Y Acad Sci. 298: 389–408.
S2CID 13228556
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Warren, CE; JH Wales; GE Davis; P Doudoroff (1964). "Trout production in an experimental stream enriched with sucrose". Journal of Wildlife Management. 28 (4): 617–660.
JSTOR 3798780
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