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If you have
ever fished commercially out of Kodiak, there's a chance you may have
already gotten a University of Alaska survey in the mail - or soon will.
Courtney Carothers is an assistant professor at the School of Fisheries and
Ocean Sciences in Fairbanks, and she's interested in knowing how fishermen feel about their
occupation.
We've attached a copy of the survey if you'd like to look it over.
 survey_instrument_05132012 780.74 Kb
-- (Survey 1 41 sec "So for me, I'm hoping to ... social dimensions of
fishing policy.")
The survey
is going to both permit holders and to crewmen to get a broad sample of
responses:
-- (Survey 2 34 sec "We'll be sending the survey out ... for good and for
bad.")
Carothers
says she wants to put the information she receives here in Kodiak into a global
perspective:
-- (Survey 3 28 sec "In our country there's a lot of ... the academic
research that I do.")
One of the
topics she's interested in finding out more about is how attitudes towards
fishing and community have changed over time:
-- (Survey 4 54 sec "So I have a set of questions ... be able to be managed
better.")
Carothers
picked Kodiak for her study after having come here as a NOAA research assistant
while working on her PhD:
-- (Survey 5 44 sec "You always hear, ‘Oh it was the ... fishermen in the
community.")
The two-year
study is funded by the National Science Foundation. Carothers will share the
results with community leaders and fisheries managers in hopes it will give
them more perspective on attitudes towards the fishing industry and the
community.
Carothers
will be in Kodiak next week for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council
meeting, and hopes to talk to fishermen then, and when she returns for two
weeks in July.
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