Conservation researchers have been shown to be motivated by the application of their work to address real world problems. However, a significant number of recent studies in the sociology of science and related fields such as knowledge exchange and knowledge mobilization have shown that direct influence of conservation science on policy and practice is rare. To improve conservation science uptake, we need a better understanding of how knowledge mediation and interpretation by potential knowledge users actually happens. This article examines qualitative data from a set of 65 interviews with government staff and other stakeholders and rights holders involved with rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) management in British Columbia, Canada. The focus of the investigation is on the ways that scientific knowledge moves through this network of actors. We approach knowledge exchange and mobilization as a social and political process. Our analysis makes use of the concept of knowledge mediation spaces as the specific settings in which actors deliberate and make sense of multiple forms of knowledge and competing social interests. Four knowledge mediation spaces were identified in the case study: sharing expertise and best practices, consultation on policy direction, program delivery, and research partnerships. Sharing of knowledge among actors in this network was found to be influenced by the movement of individuals from one organization to another throughout their careers. We also found that there is frequent interaction among actors for problem solving and seeking expert advice and that scientific methods strongly inform the actions of fisheries actors; yet science does not always play a role in policy formation. We recommend researchers place more emphasis on engaging stakeholders and Indigenous rights holders more directly in order to inform their research agendas and to facilitate more direct pathways for knowledge exchange, and by extension impacts on management and conservation.

保护研究人员已被证明受到将他们的工作应用于解决现实世界问题的激励。然而，科学社会学和相关领域（如知识交流和知识动员）的大量近期研究表明，保护科学对政策和实践的直接影响很少见。为了提高保护科学的吸收率，我们需要更好地了解潜在知识用户的知识中介和解释实际上是如何发生的。本文检查了对涉及虹鳟鱼 ( Oncorhynchus mykiss) 在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省管理。调查的重点是科学知识通过这个参与者网络的方式。我们将知识交流和动员视为一个社会和政治过程。我们的分析利用知识中介空间的概念作为行为者思考和理解多种形式的知识和相互竞争的社会利益的特定环境。案例研究中确定了四个知识中介空间：分享专业知识和最佳实践、政策方向咨询、项目交付和研究伙伴关系。发现该网络中参与者之间的知识共享受到个人在其职业生涯中从一个组织到另一个组织的移动的影响。我们还发现，行动者之间经常互动以解决问题和寻求专家建议，科学方法对渔业行动者的行动有重要影响；然而，科学并不总是在政策制定中发挥作用。我们建议研究人员更加重视让利益相关者和土著权利持有人更直接地参与进来，以便为他们的研究议程提供信息，并促进更直接的知识交流途径，进而对管理和保护产生影响。