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Expert Judgments Regarding Risks Associated with Salmon Aquaculture Practices in British Columbia

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  • Timothy McDaniels
  • Patricia Keen
  • Hadi Dowlatabadi

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Making sound decisions about managing ecological risks necessarily involves relying on judgments by technical specialists informed by the best available scientific evidence. Yet, organizing those judgments in ways to assess the relative risks of different components of a technology, and considering priorities in managing those risks, is a difficult and under‐explored aspect of environmental management. In this study, we elicited the judgments of scientists associated with the salmon aquaculture industry in British Columbia in order to learn their expert viewpoints of potential risks. This paper presents survey results regarding structured judgments provided by scientists engaged in studies associated with aquaculture or preserving wild stocks of Pacific salmon species. There were statistically significant differences regarding judgments of the risks of various current aquaculture practices on wild salmon stocks. It was possible to rank the means of scientific judgment scores to prioritize these risks. Differences in rankings were location and context specific.

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  • Timothy McDaniels & Patricia Keen & Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2006. "Expert Judgments Regarding Risks Associated with Salmon Aquaculture Practices in British Columbia," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(7), pages 775-800.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:9:y:2006:i:7:p:775-800
    DOI: 10.1080/13669870600924501
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