The Global Repercussions of the 1947 Symposium on Fish Populations in Toronto: Scientific Networks and the Over-fishing Question

A relatively small, contentious, and long-forgotten meeting, the 1947 Symposium on Fish Populations, had enormous and decades-long repercussions for global fisheries policies. Convened in Toronto by Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman, former director of the Atlantic Biological Station, it drew together le...

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Published in:Scientia Canadensis
Main Author: Hubbard, Jennifer
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spelling fterudit:oai:erudit.org:1048926ar 2023-05-15T17:34:33+02:00 The Global Repercussions of the 1947 Symposium on Fish Populations in Toronto: Scientific Networks and the Over-fishing Question Hubbard, Jennifer 2018 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1048926ar https://doi.org/10.7202/1048926ar en eng CSTHA/AHSTC Érudit Scientia Canadensis : Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine vol. 40 no. 1 (2018) All Rights Reserved © JenniferHubbard, 2018 A.G. Huntsman fisheries overfishing fish populations MSY text 2018 fterudit https://doi.org/10.7202/1048926ar 2019-02-17T00:07:10Z A relatively small, contentious, and long-forgotten meeting, the 1947 Symposium on Fish Populations, had enormous and decades-long repercussions for global fisheries policies. Convened in Toronto by Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman, former director of the Atlantic Biological Station, it drew together leading North American fisheries biologists and professional fishermen. By exposing the lack of agreement on, or understanding of, the nature of overfishing, this meeting made it difficult for later scientists to challenge pro-industry fisheries policies. The published proceedings, in-demand by a tight network of fisheries scientists across North America and the North Atlantic, guaranteed this meeting’s disproportionate and unfortunate impact. Une réunion relativement petite, controversée et oubliée depuis longtemps, le Symposium de 1947 sur les populations de poissons, a eu des répercussions énormes durant des décennies sur la politique mondiale de la pêche. Organisé à Toronto par Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman, ancien directeur de la Station biologique de l’Atlantique, il a réuni des biologistes des pêches et des pêcheurs professionnels de premier plan en Amérique du Nord. En exposant le manque d’accord ou de compréhension sur la nature de la surpêche, cette réunion a rendu difficile pour les générations de scientifiques suivants de défier les politiques de pêche proindustrie. Les procédures publiées, en demande par un réseau serré de scientifiques halieutiques en Amérique du Nord et dans l’Atlantique Nord, ont garanti l’impact disproportionné et malheureux de cette réunion. Text North Atlantic Érudit.org (Université Montréal) Archibald ENVELOPE(-56.692,-56.692,-63.209,-63.209) Rendu ENVELOPE(-67.059,-67.059,-67.449,-67.449) Scientia Canadensis 40 1 76 97
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description A relatively small, contentious, and long-forgotten meeting, the 1947 Symposium on Fish Populations, had enormous and decades-long repercussions for global fisheries policies. Convened in Toronto by Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman, former director of the Atlantic Biological Station, it drew together leading North American fisheries biologists and professional fishermen. By exposing the lack of agreement on, or understanding of, the nature of overfishing, this meeting made it difficult for later scientists to challenge pro-industry fisheries policies. The published proceedings, in-demand by a tight network of fisheries scientists across North America and the North Atlantic, guaranteed this meeting’s disproportionate and unfortunate impact. Une réunion relativement petite, controversée et oubliée depuis longtemps, le Symposium de 1947 sur les populations de poissons, a eu des répercussions énormes durant des décennies sur la politique mondiale de la pêche. Organisé à Toronto par Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman, ancien directeur de la Station biologique de l’Atlantique, il a réuni des biologistes des pêches et des pêcheurs professionnels de premier plan en Amérique du Nord. En exposant le manque d’accord ou de compréhension sur la nature de la surpêche, cette réunion a rendu difficile pour les générations de scientifiques suivants de défier les politiques de pêche proindustrie. Les procédures publiées, en demande par un réseau serré de scientifiques halieutiques en Amérique du Nord et dans l’Atlantique Nord, ont garanti l’impact disproportionné et malheureux de cette réunion.
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