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Fishery management is not only a biological activity but contains liberal amounts of economics and sociology (i.e., it is a political process). However, biology provides the ground-truths against which socioeconomic departures should be evaluated.
Within the biological component of fishery management is the need for two types of closely related, yet distinct professionals: fishery research biologists and fishery management biologists. The former advances biologicalj population theory; the latter applies theory to specific management problems and is the pragmatic purveyor of ground-truth to the management entity. Fishery agencies should recognize the differences and develop selection criteria and appropriate career paths for each.
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Larkins, H.A., Crutchfield, J.A. (1988). “The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth” (Within the 95% Confidence Interval). In: Wooster, W.S. (eds) Fishery Science and Management. Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies, vol 28. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2004-4_13
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