John Leslie Munro (1938-2009) - a pioneer of tropical fisheries science

Abstract

John Munro was born on 4 February 1938 in Johannesburg, South Africa and had an interesting life as a youth, which included several years as a racing car driver, and graduation from the University of Witwatersrand, in 1959. A Common- wealth scholarship enabled him to leave South Africa in 1961, where he had become disgusted with the apartheid regime. In 1964, he acquired a PhD from the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Salisbury (now Harare), with a thesis on the limnology of and the trophic relationships within nearby Lake McIlwain (Munro 1967). Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was then known, was a part of the Central African Federation, of which John became a citizen after shedding his South African nationality