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In Their Own Words: Fishermen's Perspectives Of Community Resilience, Teresa R. Johnson, Anna Henry, Cameron Thompson
In Their Own Words: Fishermen's Perspectives Of Community Resilience, Teresa R. Johnson, Anna Henry, Cameron Thompson
Maine Sea Grant Publications
Maine’s fishing communities are experiencing the cumulative effects of fish stock depletion, state and federal regulations, coastal development and demographic changes, and rising fuel and energy costs.
Legally, federal fisheries managers must minimize adverse economic impacts of fishery regulations on fishing communities, yet too often data with which to do this are insufficient (Ingles and Sepez 2007). For example, National Standard 8 of the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the federal legislation governing the management of marine resources in the U.S., requires that managers “take into account the importance of fishery resources to fishing communities” and “provide sustained …