Article ID: CBB016024435

The Global Repercussions of the 1947 Symposium on Fish Populations in Toronto: Scientific Networks and the Over-fishing Question (2018)

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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 leading North American fisheries biologists and professional fishermen. By exposing the lack of agreement on, or understanding of, the nature of overfishing, this meeting made it difficult for later scientists to challenge pro-industry fisheries policies. The published proceedings, in-demand by a tight network of fisheries scientists across North America and the North Atlantic, guaranteed this meeting’s disproportionate and unfortunate impact.

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Authors & Contributors
Bavington, Dean
Finley, Carmel
Grasso, Glenn M.
Hubbard, Jennifer Mary
Morgan, M. J.
Parsons, Christopher M.
Journals
Environmental History
Antiquity
Environment and History
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Canadian Studies
Journal of Global History
Publishers
Harvard University Asia Center
Michigan State University Press
Oregon State University Press
Southern Illinois University Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Nebraska Press
Concepts
Natural resource management
Fisheries; fishing
Environmental history
Environmental sciences
Conservation of natural resources
Environment
People
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Kirschmann, August
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Canada
North America
Italy
Atlantic Ocean
Toronto (Ontario)
California (U.S.)
Institutions
University of Toronto
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