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Edwin Philip Pister is a fishery biologist who worked for California Department of Fish and Game. He was a pioneer of desert fish conservation, and is credited with saving the Owens pupfish (Cyprinodon radiosis) by transferring the entire remaining population into several buckets and transporting them to a safe location. Pister was born in Stockton, California and currently lives in Bishop, California. A volume compiling studies of desert fishes has been published in his honor. He has written and published scientific and popular papers and has also written about environmental ethics.