They may have one of the toughest and most romanticised occupations on the blue planet, but many people are “suspicious” of those who make their living from the sea, a leading US marine scientist has said in Galway.
It may be due to a dearth of knowledge about the marine environment – but technology tends to be trusted more than the people who actually work the grounds, Dr Steve Murawski, chief science adviser with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), has suggested.
Murawski, who was Noaa’s adviser on US president Barack Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force, was keynote speaker at an international conference hosted last week by the Marine Institute in Galway on fishery- dependent information.
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