Robert Arlinghaus is Professor for Integrative Fisheries Management at the Faculty of Life Sciences in joint professorship with the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries. Robert’s work integrates the social, economic and ecological aspects of inland fisheries and uses a range of methods from psychology, human dimensions, economics ecology and modelling and applies them to emerging questions of capture fisheries science, particularly on recreational fisheries. He has also published extensively on the ethics of recreational fishing. For his interdisciplinary accomplishments Robert and his team have received several awards, including the Award of Excellence by the American Fisheries Society and the UNESCO award for an outstanding project on “education for sustainable development.” Robert has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and several books.