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Instant myth: the case of the west Greenland salmon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

M. J. Dunbar
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It has been said that scientific truths begin as heresies and end as myths, enjoying a period of orthodox acceptance in between. It must be rare, if this is so, for a myth to be imposed upon the public as a “truth”, to be accepted immediately as such, and then to suffer excommunication as heresy. Such a case is at hand in the matter of the sea-life area of the Atlantic Salmon in Davis Strait and of the start of a new pelagic fishery.

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Research Article
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Polar Record , Volume 17 , Issue 109 , January 1975 , pp. 355 - 358
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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Marine Sciences Centre, McGill University, PO Box 6070, Station ‘A’, Montreal H3C 3GI.

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