Visibility of Fisheries Resources and Fisheries Science: An American Fisheries Society Action Plan

摘要

The American Fisheries Society (AFS), in order to promote conservation of sustainable, productive, and stable fisheries and aquatic ecosystems; to reestablish natural aquatic habitats and the diverse, natural biological communities associated with such habitats; and to identify the most effective, scientifically based management strategies and techniques for both natural and human-altered habitats, acknowledges its responsibility and declares its role as an active source of scientifically credible, substantive information about fish and fisheries for the public.