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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 ...
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 ...