New England's Fishing Communities

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• Personal Author:
  Hall-Arber, Madeleine ; Dyer, Christopher L. ; Poggie, John J. ; Mcnally, James ; Gagne, Renee
• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ; Marine Fisheries Initiative,
• NOAA Program & Office:
  Sea Grant ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Sea Grant Program:
  MIT (MIT Sea Grant)
• Description:
  Legislation has specifically directed fisheries managers to provide for sustained participation of fishing communities and to minimize adverse impacts on the communities. However, a dearth of long-term systematic studies of fisheries-​dependent communities has limited the extent to which these directives have been followed. This report takes several approaches to identifying New England's fishing communities and ranking their dependency. One approach is based on a regional consideration of fisheries- related employment compared to alternative employment. Another approach focuses on fishing structure complexity and degrees of individual communities' gentrification, and finally, the third approach offers community profiles that detail individual ports' characteristics with some attention to stakeholders' views on their community, way of life, institutions, and fisheries management.
• Keywords:
  Fisheries Fishers Fishery Management Fishing Ports Fishery Management Fishing Ports
• Series:
  Report   MITSG 01-15
• Sea Grant Document Number:
  MIT-T-01-001
• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA87FF0547.
• Place as Subject:
  New England
• Rights Information:
  Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:59acb5e4907cf68fbd3c5fc946c502d14972e90c9cbed3870a7b429294fdd1fd
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/41656/noaa_41656_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 27.07 MB ]