Prepared for the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists
There are few fisheries scientists today who have known the state of the fishery – be it local, national or global – to be other than in a state of crisis of one form or another. Of course we tend to live and observe such matters through the lens and context of our own times. Yet in the scheme of things we are really the new kids on the block. After all, the west coast fishery dates back over a century and the east coast half a millennium.Undoubtedly the first observations about the state of the oceans and the health of the fish were made by the fishermen themselves, and later through the work of the first scientists.
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Watson-Wright, W., Rice, J., Lear, H., Adams, B. (2009). The Promise of an Ecosystem Approach: Lessons from the Past – Hopes for the Future. In: Beamish, R.J., Rothschild, B.J. (eds) The Future of Fisheries Science in North America. Fish & Fisheries Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9210-7_16
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