Third World Fisheries Resources: Who Cares? How Can North American Fisheries Scientists Help Colleagues around the World?

Abstract

Fisheries scientists in the developing world are facing a crisis. They have few options for managing fisheries and few funds and support for implementing the options they have. University personnel operate with subsistence salaries, few books, no journals, and little research funding. At the same time fisheries resource issues are becoming more complex, and environmental problems more severe. Can North American scientists, agencies, and the American Fisheries Society (AFS) do more to help colleagues in need? What possibilities exist? Can possibilities be improved and expanded?