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 various species. Such an approach to fisheries management has 

 been suggested (Wilson and Olson 1975; Wilson and Anderson 1977). 



AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION 



As we have pointed out, very little social science 

 research of any kind has been done on fishing communities in 

 the United States. As a result, almost none of the information 

 is available to complete the three kinds of studies recommended 

 here . 



There are only -a very few monographs on m.adern fishing 

 communities (Bowles 1973; Grossinger 1975; Orbach 1975a; Poggie 

 and Gersuny 1974) . 



^'g']7 ^^^ o^ these works are in published form as of yet. There 

 are also a few books on ancillary topics such as organization of 

 fishing crews (Arbuckle 1970); longshoremen (Pilcher 1972); fish 

 marketing (Peterson 19 74) , and attitudes of mill workers and 

 fishermen (Poggie, Bartee and Pollnac 1976). There isf however, 

 good coverage on fishing communities of the North Atlantic-- 

 especially Newfoundland (Anderson and Wadel 1972; Brox 1972; 

 Chiaramonte 1970; Dewitt 1969; Faris 1972; McKay 1975; Young 1975). 

 A great many of the ideas and observations in this body of 

 literature are almost certainly applicable at least to New 

 England and perhaps other more distant areas as well. However, 

 we do not have the kind of detailed studies of important fishing 

 communities which v/ill give the kind of background data and 

 understanding of key institutions which fisheries managers need. 



