Yes, and thank you for the question.
I'm a research scientist by training. Biology is my specialty, but I fully acknowledge the veracity of the sciences of economics and sociology. Those are every bit as legitimate branches of science as biology and ecology.
We would say to the committee that in keeping our eye on the ball, which in this case is ultimate recovery of a given species, that socio-economic information can be as relevant and just as important as the ecological information and therefore needs to be brought to bear at the earliest instance, not at the latest.