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Is fisheries management a science? Here is one answer, given by Larkin (1972): “In brief, our fisheries literature is largely unscientific in the strict sense of the word, and our fisheries management is unscientific in almost every sense of the word.” In this paper I describe a mathematical theory which, I believe, significantly improves the possibilities for scientific management. To explain my basis for this claim, I must begin with a discussion of science itself, and I have chosen a historical example from a completely different field.
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Schnute, J. (1985). A General Theory for Fishery Modeling. In: Mangel, M. (eds) Resource Management. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46562-8_1
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