Dr David J Starkey is a specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British maritime history. His research focusses on shipping, seafaring, privateering, fisheries and marine environmental history. He works at the University of Hull

University of Hull

The University of Hull, known informally as Hull University, is an English university, founded in 1927, located in Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire...

 where he is director of the Maritime Historical Studies Centre.

Starkey is co-president of the North Atlantic Fisheries History Association (NAFHA), chairman of the British Commission for Maritime History, and a member of the History of Marine Animal Populations

History of Marine Animal Populations

The History of Marine Animal Populations is an international, interdisciplinary research initiative . It comprises the historical component of the Census of Marine Life and is designed to measure and explain patterns of long-term change in the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the...

(HMAP) programme.