The knowledge of fishermen, which could be referenced to help prevent the catastrophic ecological collapses we are seeing in our lakes and oceans, is rarely being valued by fisheries scientists according to a recent review of over 500 scientific publications spanning nearly 100 years.
IRELAND (The Fish Site) — October 13, 2014 — The study, published this week as Editor's Choice by the ICES Journal of Marine Science shows that if scientists from Canada to Kiribati had worked more closely with fishermen over the last 100 years they could well have prevented infamous events like crashes in regional cod populations, as well as some of the rapid degradation we are currently seeing in tropical coral reef environments.
Instead, they have relied predominantly on their own science which has not always been enough to prevent such damage.
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