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No one needed to “manage” fish when people were few and fishing pressures were low. Indeed, as Andy Rosenberg is fond of pointing out, the concept of managing fish is fundamentally absurd. Fish can’t read the regulations and they don’t go to management meetings, people do. So we must manage people in order to restore the fish, fisheries, and ecosystems that we value.
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Jackson, J.B.C., Alexander, K.E. (2011). Epilogue: Shifting Baselines for the Future. In: Jackson, J.B.C., Alexander, K.E., Sala, E. (eds) Shifting Baselines. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-029-3_12
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