My children are still in school, and in the math equations, if they start off wrong, the result won't be right at the end. At school, they give points for effort. In your case, however, for fishers, it's costing them their careers; they don't get any points for effort.
My question is for both of you. Do you think that scientists see your knowledge as science as well or, conversely, do you get the impression that scientists often see fishers as people who aren't worried about overfishing and depleting the resource, who just want to make money and therefore it isn't really worth listening to much of what they have to say?