We've got a huge information deficit in terms of fisheries management and big shortfalls in information about fish stocks, about species bycatch, and about ecosystem impacts of fisheries. That's long been recognised, and it was highlighted by the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor, Dr Juliet Gerrard, in this report about the future of commercial fisheries. But this Budget has no additional funding for fisheries research. That's despite some fish stocks being in freefall. 