Politically-relevant fisheries science: Reflections on the work of Henry Regier, or, lessons from the sassy scientist
Keywords:
advocacy, Great Lakes, networks, state actorsAbstract
Throughout his career, Dr. Henry Regier’s science and scholarship includes numerous contributions that cross disciplines and inform policy. This review of examples of his politically-relevant science publications spans six decades. Regier’s publications emphasize themes that cross the various boundaries of expert-layperson, state actors-society, public-private, and government-academic sectors. His writings provide several lessons for fishery and aquatic scientists and managers throughout the Great Lakes Basin and beyond: advocate, provoke, network and combine the dualities of idealism and pragmatism.
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