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Interactions Between Fisheries and Systematics
Author(s) -
Collette Bruce B.,
Vecchione Michael
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<0020:ibfas>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - taxon , economic shortage , systematics , invertebrate , diversity (politics) , voucher , fishery , ecology , biology , taxonomy (biology) , computer science , political science , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , world wide web , law
Systematists study and name the diverse forms of life and determine the evolutionary relationships among them. Increased interactions are needed between systematists and fishery scientists so systematists can obtain the material they need to study, and systematic problems of importance to fishery scientists can be resolved. The current shortage of systematists in some taxonomic groups, such as many invertebrate taxa, requires cooperative efforts by systematists and fishery scientists to train more specialists. Existing fishery sampling programs can aid in monitoring and understanding biological diversity at relatively little additional cost by expanding collecting efforts to include more taxa. The resulting voucher material serves to document the presence of a given species in time and space, and these specimens can be used for baselines of such things as heavy metals, pesticides, and parasite loads. Systematists need to translate their technical papers into practical guides and keys that can be used by fishery scientists in field situations.