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A Comparison of Waves I (2012/2013) and II (2018/2019) of the Survey on the Socio-Economic Aspects of Commercial Fishing Crew in the Northeast U.S.
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2021
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Description:The Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s (NEFSC) “Socio-Economic Survey of Hired Captains and Crew in New England and Mid-Atlantic Commercial Fisheries”1 (“crew survey”) was first implemented in 2012-2013 as a baseline survey (hereafter referred to as “Wave 1”) of commercial fishing crew in the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions. Crew are vital to the success of the commercial fishing industry, yet there is a lack of basic demographic and economic information on crew for U.S. fisheries. This 2018-2019 crew survey effort (hereafter referred to as “Wave 2”) provides the next set of socioeconomic data in this longitudinal study and documents fishing participants’ perceptions, concerns, and ideas about the fishing industry. Survey implementation for Wave 2 took place from July 2018-June 2019 from Maine to North Carolina. Considering crew are a hard-to-reach population (no crew registry or database), teams of interviewers intercepted potential crew respondents at ports for in-person interviews. In Wave 2, a total of 478 surveys were completed, 1 was partially completed, and 39 intercepted contacts refused to participate. Information collected as part of this survey includes basic demographic information about crew (e.g., age, education level, income), availability of work, job characteristics, fishing practices, job satisfaction and well-being, and perceptions about fisheries management. This document provides an overview of the survey’s background and objectives, the development of the survey, its implementation, and basic statistical summaries of the results for each of the questions asked, as well as some comparisons between the Wave 1 and Wave 2 surveys.
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