TITLE:
Desirability of a standard notation for fisheries assessment
AUTHORS:
Sergio Ragonese, Sergio Vitale
KEYWORDS:
Fisheries; Assessment; Symbols; Standard
JOURNAL NAME:
Agricultural Sciences,
Vol.4 No.8,
August
9,
2013
ABSTRACT: The worldwide
increase of the publications concerning the assessment of marine renewable
living resources is highlighting long-standing problems with symbols and
annotations. Starting from the symbols presented within the classic
fisheries masterpieces produced, mainly in the fifty of the last century, a
first “Milestone” list was organised. Thereafter, the pertinent literature
was (not exhaustively) browsed in order to integrate this Milestone list on the
base of a set of decisional criteria. The present contribution consists in
using the Latin letters as well established symbols for the corresponding parameters,
leaving free to specific use (with few historical exceptions) the Greek letters
in view to open a discussion among all the fisheries scientists and bodies in
order to move towards a common language and better communication standards.