Is There a Fisheries Management Revolution in Your Future

Abstract This paper focuses on fisheries management conflicts, which because of their unpredictability, rapid change, disorderliness, and challenges to both scientific expertise and professional autonomy, have a “revolutionary” quality to them. It assumes that perceptive fisheries managers can monitor and react to changes that may push issues toward these revolutionary paths. This paper first outlines four characteristics of fisheries management issues; these characteristics are then used to identify five types of fisheries management revolution, each of which is illustrated with examples from the literature.