ABSTRACT
The outlines preparing the participants in this Round Table were (with respect to this, paper) unintentionally ambiguous: one of them ambitiously directed me to consider “further” the optimal allocation of resources between types of fish, fishing grounds, methods of fishing and over time; the other more prudently advised me to hope less to answer problems than to raise new questions. I have gratefully taken refuge in the shelter of the second directive, for while the answering of the problems of allocation of resources does not easily yield to the pressure of concentrated study, it may reveal further problems that complicate the previous methods by which the problem may be considered.
