For many years now I have written and lectured on the inadequacy of official fisheries science, pointing to the absence of environmental parameters from the commonly employed models of fish populations dynamics. I have also pointed to the axiomatic adoption by management systems and the models they use of the fallacious contention that fishing is the prevailing, if not the only, factor responsible for changes in fish populations, and that by regulating fishing effort or catches they can maintain "sustainable fisheries".
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