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The Practical Uses of Fisheries History
Author(s) -
Nielsen Larry A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8446(1995)020<0016:tpuofh>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , work (physics) , term (time) , computer science , fisheries management , management strategy , history , fishery , environmental resource management , operations research , data science , business , environmental science , engineering , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , fishing , business administration , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Fisheries history has four practical uses. First, it helps us avoid bad decisions by providing a long‐term vision of what we have tried and how it has worked. Second, history provides an accurate perspective on the development of our profession, verifying that conditions are neither as bad nor as good as they seem. Third, history informs the inventory stage of strategic planning, providing the baselines for setting management goals and objectives. Fourth, historical information can be used as experiments to address long‐term ecological and management questions. Because of these uses, we must preserve our current work—gray literature, survey data, museum specimens, personal diaries and recollections—as the history of the future.