Fisheries Ecology

关于加拿大自然资源的循证决定通常来自正式评估，只有在利益攸关方对科学知识提出批评时，才让利益攸关方参与。这种被动的参与方式无法捕捉社区成员作为科学进程一部分所掌握的潜在有价值的知识，限制了科学家的理解和利益攸关方群体的支持。通过研究想法如何量化，本研究旨在改变社区对自然资源的知识如何成为循证决策过程的一部分。具体而言，该研究将开发新方法，以帮助准确地将社区成员持有的想法转化为可以科学评估的定量模型。在这样做的过程中，该项目的目的是找出如何最好地利用社区掌握的科学知识，使加拿大人的不同意见反映在渔业资源评估和相关的管理决定中。这项工作在提升正式科学过程中非科学观点的价值方面是独一无二的，并将有助于通过积极参与的新途径弥合渔业科学与利益攸关方之间的差距。

Evidence-based decisions about Canada's natural resources typically come from formal assessments that engage stakeholders only as critics of scientific knowledge developed without their participation. This kind of passive engagement fails to capture potentially valuable knowledge held by community members as part of the scientific process, limiting understanding by scientists and buy-in from stakeholder groups. By studying how ideas become quantified, this research aims to transform how community knowledge about natural resources can become part of the process of evidence-based decision making. Specifically, the research will develop new methods to help accurately translate ideas held by community members into quantitative models that can be evaluated scientifically. In doing so, the project aims to figure out how best to capture community-held scientific knowledge so that the diverse views of Canadians are reflected in fisheries stock assessments and associated management decisions. The work is unique in elevating the value of non-scientific views within the formal scientific process and will help to bridge the gap between fisheries science and stakeholders through new avenues of active engagement.