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Can we have our fish and eat it, too? An unusual collaboration of marine ecologists and fisheries management scientists says the answer may be yes.

In a research paper published in the journal science, the two groups, long at odds with each other, offer a global assessment of the world’s saltwater fish and their environments .Their conclusions are at once gloomy and upbeat – over-fishing continues to threaten many species, but a combination of steps can turn things around.

Because antagonism between ecologists and fisheries management experts has been intense, many familiar with the study say the most important factor is that it was done at all. They say they hope the study will inspire similar collaborations between scientist whose focus is safely exploiting specific natural resources and those interested mainly in conserving them .``This paper starts to bridge that gap.”

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The collaboration began in 2006 when Boris Worm, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and other scientists made an alarming prediction: if current trends continue, by 2048 over-fishing will have destroyed most commercially important populations of saltwater fish.

Ecologists applauded the work. But among fisheries management scientists, reactions ranged from skepticism to fury over what many called an alarmist report . Among the most prominent critics was Ray Hilborn , a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences at the university of Washington in Seattle .Yet the disagreement did not play out in a typical scientific fashion with ,as Dr. Hilborn put it ,``researchers firing critical papers back and forth .”Instead, he and Dr .worm found themselves debating the issue on National Public Radio.

``We started talking and found more common ground than we had expected,” Dr .Worm said .Dr .Hilborn recalled thinking that Dr .worm`` actually seemed like a reasonable person.” The two decided to work together on the issue.

Because the new paper represents the views of both camps, its conclusions are likely to be influential .Getting a strong statement from those communities that there is more to agree on than to disagree on helps build confidence.

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在我們有魚吃的同時(shí)，魚類又不至于滅絕，兩者可以得兼嗎?海洋生物學(xué)家和漁業(yè)管理科學(xué)家在經(jīng)歷史無(wú) 前例的合作后得出了肯定的答案。

海洋生物學(xué)家和漁業(yè)管理科學(xué)家長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)都存在著分歧，不過(guò)雙方在《美國(guó)自然科學(xué)雜志》上發(fā)表的研究論文對(duì)地球上咸水魚及其生活環(huán)境提供了一個(gè)全球性的評(píng)估。他們得出的結(jié)論立馬是情況變得既黯淡又令人樂(lè)觀—過(guò)度對(duì)漁業(yè)資源的捕撈會(huì)繼續(xù)威脅到很多的物種，但是綜合運(yùn)用各種手段能使扭轉(zhuǎn)形勢(shì)。

由于生態(tài)學(xué)家和漁業(yè)管理專家之間的分歧一直都比較尖銳，很多熟悉此項(xiàng)研究的人都認(rèn)為最重要的因素已經(jīng)是這樣了。他們說(shuō)他們希望此項(xiàng)研究能夠激勵(lì)那些焦聚與安全開采特殊自然資源以及那些主要對(duì)保護(hù)自然資源感興趣的科學(xué)家采取類似的合作。

該合作開始于2006年。當(dāng)時(shí)加拿大新斯科舍省哈利法克斯戴豪斯大學(xué)的一個(gè)叫鮑里斯·沃姆的海洋生物學(xué)家和其他的科學(xué)家做出了一個(gè)令人震驚的預(yù)測(cè)：如果任當(dāng)前趨勢(shì)繼續(xù)下去，到2048年過(guò)渡捕魚將會(huì)破壞以捕獲咸水魚為生的漁民的生意。

生態(tài)學(xué)家對(duì)此項(xiàng)工作大加贊賞，但是在漁業(yè)管理科學(xué)家之間對(duì)此的反應(yīng)卻不同，對(duì)于這所謂的危言聳聽的報(bào)告有的持懷疑態(tài)度，有的表示憤怒。其中最著 名的批評(píng)家莫過(guò)于雷·希爾伯恩了。他是西雅圖華盛頓大學(xué)水產(chǎn)和漁業(yè)科學(xué)系教授。正如希爾博爾博士所言，該分歧并不是以一種典型的科學(xué)方式結(jié)束的，把評(píng)論文章

沃姆博士說(shuō)道：“我們開始討論并且發(fā)現(xiàn)了更多的共同點(diǎn)，超出了我們之前的預(yù)計(jì)�！毕�爾伯恩博士回憶到，沃姆博士實(shí)際上看起來(lái)像一個(gè)講道理的人。兩個(gè)人決定在這個(gè)問(wèn)題上采取合作。

由于報(bào)紙代表了兩大正營(yíng)的觀點(diǎn)，它的結(jié)論很有可能會(huì)很有影響力。從這些群體中得到一個(gè)強(qiáng)有力的論點(diǎn)，及合作遠(yuǎn)大于分歧，這有助于建立信心。

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