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A major change in the interpretation of the causes of inter annual and decadal-scale fluctuations in landings of marine fisheries occurred during the period 1902 to 1914. The aim of this chapter is to evaluate the role of egg and larval studies in the development of concepts in population biology, with particular emphasis on the problem of fisheries fluctuations. I will attempt to evaluate why particular studies were undertaken, and what marine scientists thought before the emergence of the present conceptual framework. What were the issues that led to the breakthroughs in understanding, and how were they resolved? As first stated by Giambattista Vico, the influential Italian philosopher of the early 18th century, it is necessary to have ‘fantasia’ or imagination to interpret what people were experiencing in the past (see Berlin, 1991, for an introduction to Vico’s contribution). There are, of course, risks of misinterpretation through misguided fantasia, so I will try to clearly identify the sources underlying this interpretation of the history of ideas in marine population regulation.
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Sinclair, M. (1997). Prologue. Recruitment in fish populations: the paradigm shift generated by ICES Committee A. In: Chambers, R.C., Trippel, E.A. (eds) Early Life History and Recruitment in Fish Populations. Chapman & Hall Fish and Fisheries Series, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1439-1_1
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