“To pursue excellent research that is then disregarded is like using a large, modern hospital only for diagnosis, and not for treatment.”

Influential fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly, speaking of the contrast between the essential adequacy of our scientific understanding of fisheries and the often distressing inadequacy of our machinery for translating this understanding into effective action.

Pauly is quoted by Professor Lord Robert May of Oxford in the preface to the book “Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries – A Global Perspective“, edited by Villy Christensen and Jay Maclean.

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