A commentary on:salvaged pearls:lessons learned from a floundering attempt to develop a management procedure for Southern Bluefin Tuna
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2008
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Fisheries Research
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Elsevier
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University of Cape Town
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Kolody et al. (this issue, hereafter referred to as KPBD), in arguing lessons learnt from the process of attempting to develop a Management Procedure (MP) for Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT: Thunnus maccoyi) in the Commission for Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT), put forward some possibly controversial views and interpretations. Given this, as a participant throughout that same process, I have been afforded the opportunity by Fisheries Research to offer my comments. The nature of this request is such as seeks an emphasis on points of difference, and what follows duly focuses primarily on these. Nevertheless, there is much in this valuable and thought-provoking contribution with which I fully agree, and my criticisms should be seen in the main as seeking to encourage further exchanges on these aspects of the MP approach to fisheries management, which I consider to have considerable merit
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Butterworth, D. S. (2008). A commentary on: salvaged pearls: lessons learned from a floundering attempt to develop a management procedure for Southern Bluefin Tuna. Fisheries Research, 94(3), 351-354.