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 I recognize that other social scientists working in 

 other parts of the country may want to modify these estimates. 

 However, everything that follows in this paper is predicated 

 on the idea that we will be focusing on the commercial fishermen 

 of the United States and will gather data by about 15 community 

 studies and 6000 questionnaires. 



OUTLINE OF SPECIFIC STUDIES 



I believe three kinds of specific information would be 

 of most use to fisheries managers, given the nature of PI 94-265: 

 I. baseline information on fishing communities in the United 

 States, II. information on social and cultural factors influencing 

 the acceptability of fisheries management proposals. III. infor- 

 mation on factors influencing the responsiveness of the fishing 

 industry to future changes in the economic environment. This 

 last concern is closely related to the impact issue. The type 

 of information needed to complete all these studies overlaps 

 considerably. The reasons this information is important for 

 fisheries managers and the specific data and concepts required 

 for each study merit considerable comment. 



I . Baseline Ethnographic Studies 



In seeking baseline information, we are essentially con- 

 cerned with obtaining a picture of the total v;ay of life of 

 fishermen and the "communities" these people live in. This may 

 seem a mundane concern, but in the long run, the data and ideas 

 generated will prove very valuable. In a few years, the eight 



