Barry Walton and Bryan Keller prepare to deploy a longline in the Gulf of Mexico (photo credit Anthony Sogluizzo). Here you can see baited hooks; this research focused on decreasing the bycatch of pelagic sharks.

Two sides of the same coin – fisheries science and management

By: Bryan Keller. There are plenty of fish in the sea and some of them taste really good. That is how the saying goes, right? Fisheries management is the reason why plenty of fish continue to be in the sea. But, without fisheries science, fisheries management would not be successful. Transitioning from the world of academia to the world of policy, I saw the important connection between these two fields first-hand.

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