What Ray Hilborn has become known for saying, “go ahead and eat fish,” runs counter to what many well-funded ocean activists often tell us. Professor Hilborn, one of the world’s best-known and most respected fisheries scientists, was the man who brought much-needed sense to the global panic brought on by the infamous “2048” collapsing-global-fisheries study by German scientist Boris Worm, published in the journal Science in 2006. When the two men and their dissimilar scientific approac…
June 17, 2012
Hilborn: ‘Go ahead and eat fish’
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