Abstract
Applied fisheries science is currently undergoing a fundamental philosophical self-examination. This is due to some spectacular local failures in fish stock management in the recent past, and major international initiatives (ecosystem-based fisheries management, codes of conduct and the precautionary approach) which require interpretation and implementation. There is no shortage of responses to the call for a new collection of fish stock assessment and management systems (paradigm), often in the form of philosophical papers in the sections of scientific journals dedicated to such treatments. In this paper I offer some opinions on the opinions, viewpoints and perspectives which have gained attention over the last few years. It is a practitioner’s opinion. Fish stock assessment should be modeled after medical practice in which the stock is the patient, the biologist is the doctor, and the fishery is the sustainable disease.
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