Fisheries committee  With every stock assessment I've been involved in, the main recommendation is to reduce fish mortality. Most of the stocks I've been involved with in the sustainable fisheries framework have been very close to the cautious zone, and some of them actually below limit reference poi

Fisheries committee  I think so. One of the things we're trying to create research to support on the west coast is using things like technology to help the fishing industry avoid places that really do need protection—corals and sponges in particular.

Fisheries committee  Is it reckless? I don't know. A colleague of mine has tried to track down where the 20% came from. Maybe Stephen knows better, but it's not based on any theoretical measure. It's a fairly arbitrary number. I don't really know. I think if it were possible to map where corals and

Fisheries committee  There are more than 87 MPAs worldwide. These were 87 MPAs that were studied in the same ways using the same methodologies, and so on. There were measures of biomass, the number of species, species diversity, and different things like that. Some of these things you expect. If you

Fisheries committee  Generally we need to limit exploitation. A lot of fish stocks have been over-exploited. Some would call it sustainably over-exploited to the point where they're held at a really low level. At least on the west coast of Canada and to some degree on the east coast as well, there ar

Fisheries committee  I agree mostly. The peer review process in scientific journals meets a certain standard, but you can get bad reviews. You can get reviews that are inaccurate, you can get reviewers who have misunderstood the material, and you can get reviewers who are too busy to do a good review

Fisheries committee  It's at Simon Fraser University.

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I just want to give you a little bit of additional background on myself. I'm also the co-founder and chief technical officer for Landmark Fisheries Research, which is a small consulting firm. We do research that supports the fisheries community, including fishing asso