{"id":148,"date":"2011-09-30T17:25:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T17:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/?p=148"},"modified":"2012-02-12T22:23:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T22:23:19","slug":"all-the-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/2011\/09\/30\/all-the-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Finley challenges the science of Maximum Sustainable Yield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-156\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/files\/2011\/09\/All-the-Fish1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"226\" \/>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/cla\/history\/finley\"><strong>Carmel Finley<\/strong>,<\/a> who has published a new book that calls into question one of the  longest standing concepts in fisheries and marine science.\u00a0 The book, <em>All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management<\/em> (Chicago, 2011), is the first sustained historical treatment of MSY in  the United States that takes into account science, law, economics, and  international relations.\u00a0 A must read of those interested in the  politics of environmental sciences!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From the dust jacket:<\/p>\n<div>Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an  international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield  (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict,  theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken from a species\u2019  stock over an indefinite period. And while it was modified in 1996 with  passage of the Sustained Fisheries Act, MSY is still at the heart of  modern American fisheries management. As fish populations continue to  crash, however, it is clear that MSY is itself not sustainable. Indeed,  the concept has been widely criticized by scientists for ignoring  several key factors in fisheries management and has led to the  devastating collapse of many fisheries.<\/div>\n<div>Carmel  Finley reveals that the fallibility of MSY lies at its very  inception\u2014as a tool of government rather than science. The foundational  doctrine of the MSY emerged at a time when the US government was using  science to promote and transfer Western knowledge and technology, and to  ensure that American ships and planes would have free passage through  the world\u2019s seas and skies. Finley charts the history of US fisheries  science using MSY as her focus, and in particular its application to  halibut, tuna, and salmon fisheries. Fish populations the world over are  threatened, and <em>All the Fish in the Sea<\/em> will help sound warnings of the effect of any management policies divested from science itself.<\/div>\n<p>For more information about the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/A\/bo11461535.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Carmel Finley, who has published a new book that calls into question one of the longest standing concepts in fisheries and marine science.\u00a0 The book, All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management (Chicago, 2011), is the first sustained historical treatment of MSY in the United&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/2011\/09\/30\/all-the-fish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1320,2368,3387,317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-faculty","category-food-and-diet","category-oceans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/historyofscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}