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 educational levels, alternative skills, political affilations, 

 fishing gear used, annual round, species caught, incoire , associa- 

 tional involvement, and some kind of indirect indicators of 

 commitment to the industry, political awareness, etc., (2) filling 

 out a data sheet on every port in the U.S. to obtain information 

 on transportation facilities, fish processing capabilities, size 

 of community and size of fishing population, alternate employment 

 opportunities, fisherman's organizations, fishing grounds and 

 stocks, fishery statistics, fleet characteristics, marketing 

 patterns, and facilities necessary for a fishing industry (e.g. 

 hardv/are stores, repair facilities, docks, etc.). 



Second, qualitative information needs to be obtained on 

 the entire culture and social structure of "typical fishing 

 communities" in 10 to 15 key areas of the coastal United States. 

 Of special importance is information on the status and roles of 

 people in fishing crews, cooperatives, etc., the organization of 

 important kinds of groups in the communities, the values and 

 goals of people in those communities, the kinds of problems 

 people face, patterns of cooperation and conflict, etc. In short, 

 we need a set of standard monographs on communities of the kind 

 that anthropologists and sociologists have done in the past on 

 primitive tribes, peasant communities, and ethnic groups in 

 modern Western countries. Of course, these monographs would not 

 attempt to cover every aspect of the life and culture of the total 

 community, but would rather focus on the people and families 

 directly involved in fishing. 



