The gospel of efficiency and the origins of maximum sustained yield (MSY): Scientific and social influences on Johan Hjort’s and A.G. Huntsman’s contributions to fisheries science

A Century of Maritime Science: The St. Andrews Biological Station

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 78-117

  Hubbard, Jennifer ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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