Should we eat these fish? a situational ethics survey of afs members

Paul B. Brown; T. Douglas Beard; Richard A. Jacobson; Jack S. Mattice; Paul J. Pristas; Michael G. Hinton

doi:10.1577/1548-8446-18-2

Should we eat these fish? a situational ethics survey of afs members

Paul B. Brown, T. Douglas Beard, Richard A. Jacobson, Jack S. Mattice, Paul J. Pristas, Michael G. Hinton

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Abstract

Many professional societies have established ethical guidelines or standards for their membership that include ramifications of actions outside those practices. While the American Fisheries Society has a "Code of Practices and Ethics," those are necessarily broad and do not address specific situations. In this paper, we present the findings of a survey of AFS members. The survey presented 10 situations, described corresponding action, and asked respondents if the action taken was ethical. A statistically significant consensus was present in all but one of the situations, but only one situation evoked a unanimous response. Responses to several of the situations were closely divided and indicated that those topics might benefit from further discussion among members of the AFS.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-22
Number of pages	4
Journal	Fisheries
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8446-18-2
Publication status	Published - Jan 1993
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
We wish to thank Norval Netsch, Drs. John Clark and Marianna Alexandersdottir, Mike Mills, Dave Watsjold, and Allen Bingham for their reviews of this manuscript. We are grateful to the directors of the Division of Sport Fish, first Dick Logan and then Norval Netsch, whose support of operational planning was crucial to its birth and to its continued existence. Most of all, we wish to acknowledge the people of the Division of Sport Fish for their dedication to planning as an integral part of our program. This work was partially funded under the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act.

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Nature and Landscape Conservation

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