Browsing by Author "Corkett, Christopher J."
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Can We Stop the Atlantic Lobster Fishery Going the Way of Newfoundland's Atlantic Cod? A Perspective
Corkett, Christopher J. (Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2011)The cod and lobster fisheries of Atlantic Canada are managed in very different ways. Regulatory policy for Atlantic cod has traditionally been based on population or biomass measurements, something that has never been done ... -
Can we stop the lobster going the way of the cod?
Corkett, Christopher J. (labeled ‘A brief submitted in 2006 to the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC)’, 2006)This report is a response to the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC)’s request for opinion on how to reduce risk and address problems in Atlantic Canada’s lobster fishery. See www.frcc-ccrh.ca for further details ... -
Distinguishing input controls from ouput controls in Atlantic Canada's fisheries: explaining the decline and collapse of Newfoundland's Atlantic cod stocks
Corkett, Christopher J. (2013-03-14)The lobster and groundfish fisheries of Atlantic Canada have been managed in very different ways. The Atlantic lobster fishery has been managed by input controls in which regulations have been developed by a posteriori ... -
Fisheries Stock Assessment: an inductive science with the Logical form of Primitive Magic
Corkett, Christopher J. (2010-01-20)Abstract. A logical analysis of the common fisheries models used in stock assessment has shown that they produce specific predictions with the logical form of existential statements, fail Karl Popper’s falsifiability ... -
Karl Popper’s organon and the world’s fisheries: fish stock assessment as a pseudoscience, an inductivism that can bear no fruit
Corkett, Christopher J. (2006)Recent long term historical studies of commercial fisheries have pointed to a well established pattern of overfishing. Under the principle of transference – what is true in logic is true in psychology and scientific method ... -
A note on the Aristotelian origin of Popper's demarcation criterion together with its application to Atlantic Canada's fisheries
Corkett, Christopher J. (2012-03-26)It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's demarcation criterion, the criterion he uses to distinguish an empirical science from its 'metaphysical' complement involves an interpretation of the classical theory of ... -
The Poverty of mathematical and existential truth: examples from fisheries science
Corkett, Christopher J. (2011-06-27)Several years ago I suggested that the harvesting of our commercial fisheries could be improved if the non-falsifiable models of a fisheries science were to be replaced with the falsiable models of a fisheries economics. ... -
Scientific parameterization and its validation: comparing the universal models of fisheries economics with the invalid modeling of stock assessment
Corkett, Christopher J. (2008-09-22)Here I compare the valid parameterization of fisheries economics with the data-fitted parameters of a stock assessment’s modeling, invalid models whose predictions cannot be falsified (which is another way of saying ... -
Some notes on the Aristotelian origin of the distinction between a falsificationist's and verificationist's view of science: together with corrections to my earlier account
Corkett, Christopher J. (2012-10-31)It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's analytic distinction between the logically stronger falsificationist's view of science and the logically weaker verificationist's and inductivist's view of science is a ... -
Why an ecosystem approach is the wrong paradigm for the next stage of fisheries management
Corkett, Christopher J. (2006-09-13)Scientists from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) manage groundfish stocks by collecting biomass measurements that are used to provide scientific advice on catch limits. Clearly, if the data is uncertain or ... -
Why Iceland Has a Cod Fishery and Newfoundland Does Not.
Corkett, Christopher J. (2006)