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

• Published in: Scientia Canadensis
• Main Author: Hubbard, Jennifer
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: CSTHA/AHSTC 2018
• Subjects: A.G. Huntsman; fisheries; overfishing; fish populations; MSY; Archibald; Rendu; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1048926ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1048926ar

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...