If a scientist can predict the weather (poorly)
Why cannot he predict fish yields (yet more poorly)? – a clerihew by Chris Corkett.
Recent long term historical studies of commercial fisheries have pointed to a well established pattern of overfishing. Under the principle of transference – what is true in...
The aim of management is to ensure the sustainability of the resource while maximizing economic returns to the community. This paper explained methods of detecting fisheries stock in Indonesia including survey, swept area, acoustic, statistical and tagging. In order to succeed in the future, integrated work between the decision maker...
A principle U.S. fisheries management concern is ensuring compliance with Endangered Species Act requirements to limit incidental takes of listed species to levels which do not result in potential jeopardy to existing population stocks. Part of the risk assessment process involves an analysis of historic takes (bycatch) of ESA-listed species...