Conflict in the Colorado Delta - A response to Brusca (2018)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Conservation Biology
- Keywords
- response, Hydrology, Conservation, Fisheries, vaquita, Colpichthys
- Copyright
- © 2018 Jacobs et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Conflict in the Colorado Delta - A response to Brusca (2018) PeerJ Preprints 6:e26953v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26953v1
Abstract
In his enthusiasm to highlight the impacts of fisheries in the Gulf of California, Richard Brusca (Brusca 2018) attacks our paper which is about a largely separate issue, makes false claims, does a disservice to his own cause, and undermines science. Brusca sets out to defame our work because, as he states, he fears that third parties will misuse work of this type in fisheries management. This is unfortunate. Brusca’s effort to manipulate and suppress scientific work because he fears managers will use it inappropriately is overt and chilling. We respond to Brusca’s numerous and varied criticisms in as much detail and in as measured a way as we can muster.
Author Comment
This "preprint" is a response to criticism