Miscellaneous Thoughts and Sayings...

"Fish are like trees..." :  the original statement was...

"Managing fisheries is hard: it's like managing a forest, in which the trees are invisible and keep moving around"
(Unpublished lecture at Princeton University, ca 1978)

"The real goal of fisheries management is to avoid finding out what the stock-recruitment relationship is. Once you have depleted the stock enough to know, it's probably too late"
(from an argument with David Cushing, ca 1980)