Bob Zink: Examining the shifting baseline syndrome in hunting and fishing
A concept known as the shifting baseline syndrome (SBS) is pivotal to our understanding game and fish species and how they are managed.
SBS refers to the phenomenon in which each generation accepts the condition of the natural world they grow up in as “normal,” even if ecosystems have significantly declined over time. In 1995 a fisheries scientist named Daniel Pauly coined the SBS term to illustrate how people underestimate long-term environmental loss because they compare present conditions to their own memory rather than to historical abundance.
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