How North Carolina's marine fisheries advisory system was built to mirror conflict rather than inform it, and what good science advice would require instead
Wow, you walked into a hot one with this... ;) I will also add that when the increase in the scale of shellfish aquaculture was happening DMF was woefully unprepared, basically the mentality was ignore it and it will go away. Also being a "Natural Resource Management" division they didn't understand the basics of shellfish farming. I've got a couple of decades fighting this fight....
Wow, you walked into a hot one with this... ;) I will also add that when the increase in the scale of shellfish aquaculture was happening DMF was woefully unprepared, basically the mentality was ignore it and it will go away. Also being a "Natural Resource Management" division they didn't understand the basics of shellfish farming. I've got a couple of decades fighting this fight....
I few generations deep, yes?