Abstract
A healthy ferment exists in various fields of scientific research and management on Canadian freshwater fisheries. Important achievements have been registered in ecology, as well as in economics and on legal–jurisdictional aspects. The time is right to bring some order into recent administrative chaos to consolidate scientific contributions of the past, to encourage some recent initiatives, and to expedite research that is explicitly interdisciplinary, i.e. organized from transdisciplinary perspectives and conducted so that the contributions of various disciplines are not readily discernible in the end products. A capability to transfer insights and information directly to planning and decision-making on large fisheries programs, on major industrial developments, and to regional governments and agencies is badly needed. Such a capability for freshwater fisheries can be stimulated into maturity by expanding and developing some five or six interdisciplinary and interinstitutional scientific networks that have evolved in various parts of Canada in recent decades. These and other specific conclusions are specified in some detail.
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