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Article: Toward a model for fisheries social impact assessment.
- Article from:
- Marine Fisheries Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
- Author:
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Introduction
For many years experienced fisheries social scientists have discussed developing a fisheries model for social impact assessment (SIA) that would be more compatible with the approaches taken by fisheries biologists and economists when assessing potential effects of management actions. They suspected that fishery management council (FMC) members might see social impact assessments as more useful if those assessments were provided in a format analogous to fisheries economists' and fisheries biologists' formats.
This point was given further support by Sharp and Lach's (2003) survey of Federal and state fishery managers and decision makers in ...