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 The first kinds of studies to complete are the depth 

 studies of important fishing communities, since all the other 

 studies can draw on the information generated to one degree or 

 another. Anthropologists and sociologists usually spend about 

 a year gathering data (if they have no language problems) , and 

 it usually takes another year for the data to be analyzed and 

 written up in final form. Thus, if all ten to fifteen community 

 studies were begun at the same time, it would be reasonable to 

 expect that we could produce a set of monographs in about two 

 to three years. 



Second, a survey research project should be completed 

 and include questions not only on the demographic issues, but 

 also on attitudes towards management proposals and factors 

 necessary to study technical innovation. The questions to be 

 included in those questionnaires might very well depend on the 

 part of the country being dealt with. Obviously, questions 

 pertinent to the lobster industry (e.g. how many traps do you 

 fish?) would not be applicable to the Fskimo areas of Alaska 

 where one might want to ask about other things (e.g. How many 

 "sticks" of fish do you feed to your dogs?) . 



The amount of time such a study v/ould take depends greatly 

 on the number of interviews needed to obtain statistical relia- 

 bility. I have estimated that 6000 interviev/s would be necessary 

 in the entire coastal region of the United States. If we assume 

 that one man can do two good depth interviews per day (1 hour 

 plus each) , then some 3000 man-days would be involved. If a 

 20 man interviewing crew were put to work, all the survey data 



