This is my absolute favorite quotation about fishing:
“The trail of fisheries science is strewn with the opinions of those who, while partly right, were wholly wrong.”
That’s from Michael Graham’s classic book, The Fish Gate, published in 1943.
I’ve written an article about Graham while has just been published in the online journal, Solutions. Here’s a link to my article:
http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/854.