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Challenging the scientific legacy of Johan Hjort: Time for a new paradigm in marine research?

Tildelt: kr 99 999

JUSTIFICATION: In 2019 we celebrate the 150-year anniversary of Johan Hjort (1869–1948), who introduced the fundamental theory for fisheries science with his concepts of the roles played by strong and weak year classes in population structure and productivity. Since then a wide range of new methods and approaches have emerged, but today’s knowledge of factors such as recruitment, connectivity and migration dynamics is still vague and thereby makes stock projections uncertain. Moreover, the urge to broaden the standard routines in stock management to embrace today’s holistic views, including ecosystem approaches to fisheries and on-going changes in the marine environment, requires an interdisciplinary cooperation. In order to move forward, the current situation asks for a profound shift in our approach, and a search for new ideas and a new scientific framework. To investigate the history and the present and to explore new directions in a free and creative atmosphere – in the spirit of Hjort – we invite marine researchers and historians of marine science to gather in this Bergen symposium, at the place where Hjort launched his paradigm-changing publication in 1914. We argue that by integrating data, information and perspectives from a range of scientific fields, we will be able to reach a more advanced understanding of marine life as well as the practice of marine science in the past and present. Challenging the scientific legacy of Johan Hjort will be a truly interdisciplinary event, and bring historians together with marine and fisheries scientists. The majority of the sessions will include plenary sessions and contain contributions from different fields. PUBLICATION: Contributions will be published in ICES Journal of Marine Science VENUE and DATE: The meeting will be held at Hotel Scandic Bergen City, Bergen, 12-14 June 2019 (reception on 11 June)

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MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø