Open AccessFROM THE GOLDEN AGE TO THE NEW INDUSTRIAL AGE: FISHERY MODELING IN THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY
Author(s) -
PRAGER MICHAEL H.,
WILLIAMS ERIK H.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
natural resource modeling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1939-7445
pISSN - 0890-8575
DOI - 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2003.tb00124.x
Subject(s) - stock (firearms) , agency (philosophy) , information age , age structure , fishery , population , business , economics , geography , economy , sociology , biology , social science , demography , archaeology
. If the Golden Age of fishery modeling is over, the New Industrial Age is beginning. In this new age (the early decades of the 21st century), we 1 expect to see increasing use of high‐level modeling tools, assessments closely tailored to each stock and its data, more multi‐agency collaboration, wider use of multiple‐model assessments, and extensive peer review of stock assessments. We hope that fishery management, as well, will be seen as a proper object of peer review, from which it should benefit substantially. We believe that increasing attention will be paid to financial efficiency, both in shaping data collection programs and in specifying what information must be modeled to effect management. If presently depleted stocks start to recover, analysts will be required to examine in more detail the dynamics of increasing stocks. That would constitute a pleasant duty, and one that may yield new insights in population biology.