by Matt Woods | Aug 30, 2021 | Biology, Data collection, Fish Populations, Sustainability
Fisheries science endeavours to understand the biology of fish and the state of fish stocks. It draws on a range of disciplines including marine and freshwater biology, oceanography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. One of the main aims of fisheries science is to...
by Matt Woods | Aug 30, 2021 | Biology, Data collection, Fish Populations
Understanding fish biology is essential to good fisheries management because it gives information about the productivity of a fish stock and informs the most sustainable strategy for managing that stock. Fisheries scientists collect a wide range of information on fish...
by admin | May 23, 2021 | Fish Populations, Sustainability
Stock assessments are undertaken to check that stocks are being fished sustainably, both biologically and economically. From a biological point of view, stock assessments generally address two questions about a fish stock: Is the size of the fish stock (for example...
