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 and perhaps 2 communities in the Gulf region where inshore and 

 offshore shrimping are done. While I know very little about 

 the West Coast, I would imagine that five or six more studies 

 would be necessary there. Certainly one would be needed for a 

 tuna fishing community and at least one on a salmon fishing 

 community in Washington. We would probably need studies of two 

 communities in Alaska since the fishing communities in the 

 southern part of the state, dominated by Whites who produce fish 

 for export, are very different from the Eskimo and Indian communi- 

 ties in the Western part of Alaska where fishing is primarily a 

 subsistence activity. Once we understand a great deal about these 

 communities, and know the appropriate questions to ask, survey 

 research instruments could be prepared to pick up significant 

 variations in these regions as a whole. Intensive studies of 

 communities are absolutely mandatory. We cannot find out the 

 relevant information by survey research techniques alone. At 

 present, we do not know the important questions to ask and we 

 cannot assume that what is critical to understand in one part of 

 the country is critical for another. I am particularly worried 

 about this estimate of the number of communities that should be 

 studied. In the virtual absence of a solid body of information 

 on the coastal regions of the U.S., I have nothing to go on but 

 my experience in New England and my own imagination concerning 

 the boundaries of major fisheries. I am sure that anthropologists 

 fam.iliar with other parts of the country would have some very 

 different ideas about the units that need to be analyzed. 



