Embracing Implementation Science to Enhance Fisheries and Aquatic Management and Conservation
Steven J. Cooke,
Nathan Young,
Steven Alexander
et al.
Abstract:The management and conservation of fisheries and aquatic resources are inherently applied activities. Therefore, when knowledge generated from research and monitoring, or knowledge that is held by practitioners and other actors (e.g., Indigenous elders, fishers), fails to inform those applied decisions, the persistent gap between knowledge and action is reinforced (i.e., the knowledge–action gap). In the healthcare realm, there has been immense growth in implementation science over the past decade or so with a… Show more
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