Bioeconomic modelling and resource distribution

“If the only tool that you have is a hammer - - all problems tend to look like nails!" This thought was offered in discussion, partly as an observation on previous practice, but particularly asa warning against restricted, oversimplistic views of methods for fisheries analysis and management. It was noted that the majority of papers presented to the symposium had concentrated on questions of production in relation to biological or environmental constraints. The closing theme of the symposium, and this Workshop, demonstrated and emphasized that production analysis must be supplemented by analysis of marketing, since the choice of cultured species and cultivation techniques will be guided by the demand for fish and shellfish relative to the costs of growing them.

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