Unalaska, AK – Given all the stakeholders involved, it's unlikely that anyone would mistake a fishery management council meeting for a love-in. With commercial fishermen, conservationists, the federal government - just to name a few - all having different perspectives on resource protection, conflict seems nearly inevitable.

But not necessarily, says Thomas Miller. Miller is a fisheries scientist with the University of Maryland, and he and a team of researchers have come up with a collaborative way of managing fisheries. Their idea? Well, it's pretty simple: include all stakeholders from the very beginning instead of taking comment from them after quotas have been suggested. KUCB's Alexandra Gutierrez has more.