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 In the past few years several survey research studies 

 have been done on fishing communities in the United States whifeh 

 supplement the data already available from the U.S. Census. 

 Bill Mustard carried out a study of all the U.S. fishing indus- 

 tries under the auspices of the Eastland Resolution. Virgil 

 Norton from the University of Rhode Island has run two surveys 

 in New England, along with Smith and Peterson (Woods Hole 

 Oceanographic Institute) , and Wilson from the University of 

 Maine. Most of the data collected in all of these cases concerns 

 economic aspects of the New England fisheries. On the entire 

 eastern sea board the only recent survey research v/ork focusing 

 on cultural and social aspects has been done by Peterson, who 

 gathered data on the off shore New England trawler fleet, and 

 myself. I have gathered some data on Maine lobstermen and their 

 attitudes towards management, and I have spent some 3 weeks 

 gathering data on shrimp fishermen in North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, and Florida (Acheson 1977) . To the best of 

 my knowledge my pilot study is the only survey research work 

 that has been carried out in the south on the social science 

 aspects of fisheries management. I am far less familiar with 

 the work on the west coast, but some local surveys may well have 

 been carried out in these parts of the coixntry. 



Of course, the National Marine Fisheries Service com- 

 piles a great deal of information on landing and fish prices. 

 The Bureau of the Census has compiled general data on fishing 

 as an occupation and on communities where fishing is done. 

 Given the general absence of information on the U.S. fisheries. 



