Zbigniew Kabata

Zbigniew Kabata (born March 17, 1924 in Jeremicze , † July 4, 2014 in Nanaimo ) was a Polish-Canadian zoologist and expert on fish parasites (especially Copepoda ).

Life

Kabata went to the military academy in Lviv and was in the Polish Home Army in the Second World War in the resistance against the German occupation. Towards the end of the Second World War he joined Polish troops under British command and was in England after the war , where he worked on fishing trawlers in the North Sea. He studied zoology and worked at the fisheries laboratory in Aberdeen, where he specialized in fish parasites. In 1959 he received his doctorate (Ph. D.) in Aberdeen and in 1966 he received a D. Sc. In 1967 he moved to Canada, where he became head of the sea fisheries section at Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, British Columbia .

A total of 22 taxa were named after him (including Bobkabata kabatabobus - he was also called Bobo).

He had a rank as first lieutenant in the Polish army and received high Polish awards (including Grand Commander of the Order Polonia Restituta ). In 1993 he received an honorary doctorate in Szczecin. In 2007 he became a member of the Order of Canada .

Fonts

• The Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes, Ray Society 1979

literature

• George Benz, Wojciech Piasecki, "Eighty Years of Excellence: Dr. Zbigniew Kabata", Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, Volume 34, 2004, pp. 1–10, PDF (810 KB)