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Reducing risks from E. coli 0157 on the organic farm
(Canadian Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan., 2001)
E.coli 0157 is a bacterial pathogen of the human intestinal tract which is carried in certain species of livestock and wildlife without ill effect. Such organisms are termed zoonotics. Various types of Campylobacter and ...
Systems for sustainable agriculture: approaches, tradeoffs and needs
(Canadian Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2001)
All systems of agriculture practiced today can be seen as having a potential for improvement and contributing toward a more sustainable agriculture. The major differences in approach and in the types of services needed to ...
Can we stop the lobster going the way of the cod?
(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 ...
Scientific parameterization and its validation: comparing the universal models of fisheries economics with the invalid modeling of stock assessment
(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 ...
Why an ecosystem approach is the wrong paradigm for the next stage of fisheries management
(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 ...
Karl Popper’s organon and the world’s fisheries: fish stock assessment as a pseudoscience, an inductivism that can bear no fruit
(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 ...