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                With my score project coming to an end I can safely say that I have enjoyed my experience very much. I have got to do many different things that I would not have been able to do had I not worked for Atlantic banks fisheries. I have learned many different things about fish and how it is processed. I also got to learn how to properly use many tools and large equipment, such as a forklift or pallet jack. At first I was not able to spin a pallet jack around inside the back of a truck because there are only a few inches to spare but now I can do it with ease. My favorite thing that I learned was how to drive a big truck. The truck I learned to drive has been the only diesel vehicle I have driven. I learned how to go around tight corners properly and how to back up when you only have the two mirrors on the side and can’t look directly behind you. I also learned how fish is taken from boats and unloaded at the dock to be processed. I have also learned about how the fishing industry has changed very much in the recent years and where it is headed. I am very grateful for my experience working in Atlantic banks fisheries.

blog 14

One of my favorite things to do while working is to use tools. At one point there was not much to do so me and the truck driver got to fix something. The thing that we got to fix was a pole that goes across the inside of the back of the truck to help support the totes of fish that are put on the truck. It is hard to explain how this pole works but it has a crank that you pull to make it extend so it can touch both sides of the truck and support weight. The part that cranks was broken because it had just been worn out over time. We got to use a bunch of different tools and they were good tools but disorganized and it was hard to find what you needed. We eventually fixed it and I was glad because we spent hours on it and I thought it couldn’t be fixed for a while and I didn’t want to work on something for two hours and have nothing to show for it. After that I fixed pallets for the rest of the day. I like doing that because it’s easy and you don’t get dirty doing it. I took apart one pallet and used the boards on it to fix a bunch of others so basically one pallet was lost but many were restored to working condition. 

blog 13

Yesterday I had a fairly easy and normal day for the most part. I was almost done cleaning up for the day and I was told that I had to put fillets in 10 pound boxes. The boxes and lids for fillets are stored on a roof above a room for some reason. There is a ladder that I had to climb up and I tossed down the boxes and lids that I needed to someone below. When I was weighing the boxes of fillets I had to be careful not to put in too many or too little and to try to make it as close to 10 pounds as possible. Fillets cost more than whole fish so that is why it has to be more exact. I learned to zero out the scale after putting the box on so you can make it 10 instead of trying to subtract the weight of the box in your head. Also fillets have to be handled differently. I had to wear rubber gloves and also wash my hand before. Doing this for an hour was boring and I didn’t really learn anything from doing this, except how to use the scale properly. 

blog 12

One of the two forklifts is broken and it gets annoying because sometimes if someone is using the forklift that works to do something else than I have to use the pallet jack to move things. It’s not that bad to use it but if what you are trying to move is really heavy then someone else might have to help you. Also I helped cut the heads off of monkfish. We usually get them with their heads already off because nobody wants to buy the heads so they are just extra weight if you buy them with the heads on. The knife I used was a weird kind of knife and I had never seen that type before. It was kind of like a cross between a butcher knife and a fillet knife. The forklift that is broken has no brakes and sometimes some of the people just drive it around anyways. Everyone seems annoyed by it being broken because it has been broken for almost a month now and it still hasn’t been fixed. I was talking to someone named mike who works with me and he showed me where the forklift is broken and he said the guy that is supposed to fix it has the part right there next to it but just hasn’t come in to fix it.

blog 11

Last week I had a lot of work to do, and I was very tired at the end of the day. Because the weather is starting to get warmer the fish needs to be iced down more often and I need to put more ice in the boxes of fish. In the wharf the inside temperature slowly gets higher the closer to summer it gets. The temperature changes slowly because there are only 3 big garage type doors with rubber flaps going down so it takes a while for the inside temperature to catch up to the outside temperature. Currently inside it is about 60 degrees. When we have to stack boxes of fish together to be shipped it gets gross because the ice in the boxes melts and when you’re lifting the boxes discussing fish water drips everywhere. Sometimes it’s easier because someone will drive the forklift and raise up the boxes that we are trying to stack and they can be slid onto the pallet that we are going to ship out. Also for some reason I got to make a holder for a flag that we put out front. I liked doing this because I got to use a bunch of random tools to just make something, and it was different than what I usually do.

rough draft

Chris Wright

SCORE paper

Fishing industry

            Massachusetts is mainly known for its cities and towns that are next to or close to the ocean, and the ocean helps these communities live and grow. More specifically the ocean is what the economy of most coastal communities depend on. A lot of the seafood around the country comes from the northeast, so not only do many people in coastal cities depend on the ocean, the rest of the country depends on these people for seafood. For many years the ocean has been treated as a source of infinite different food products that some depend on as a source of income and others as a source of food, and more recently there has been much controversy about how the ocean has been and is being treated. Even though there is controversy, the ocean and the fishing industry play a very important role in the economy of coastal communities in Massachusetts and all around the northeast.

            While there are other aspects to the economy of the local communities than just the fishing industry, it is one of the largest parts of the economy around the coastal cities, and one of the most important. In the U.S. there are 32 billion dollars of income in the fishing industry alone. Massachusetts is one of the nation’s top commercial fishing states. Many people from other states across the country depend on the success of the fishing industry in Massachusetts, for example the south shore city of New Bedford accounts for producing half of the scallops across the country. Each year hundreds of millions of pounds of fish are landed, and shipped around the country, and there is a lot of money that is made in the process, which many people depend on. For example in the northeast 239.1 million pounds of fish were landed in 2010, which made a revenue of 297.7 million dollars. While this is a large amount of money there are thousands of people that have jobs in the fishing industry, and depend on it to get money to support themselves and their families.

            For years people have been fishing in waters off of Massachusetts, and all of New England without regulation. Many people have built their lives around the idea of making money from fishing, or selling fish and shipping it out across the country. In the past century the industry has prospered because there was no limit to the amount of fish that one could catch. The only limit was how long a fisherman would want to work in a day. With these unregulated waters fisherman had been bringing in hundreds of millions of pounds for year after year, and with each new improvement in technology the amount of fish that could be brought in kept getting higher. One of the first major improvements in the fishing industry was going from sail power to steam power in the early nineteen hundreds. This allowed fisherman to bring in their catch quicker and more often. This was beneficial because during this time period there was no refrigeration on board the boats, and fish had to be salted. Because they could bring their catch in quicker this allowed for more time to be spent fishing and ultimately, more fish to be caught. Another improvement in the fishing industry was in the nineteen twenties. New technologies came out that allowed fisherman to be able to freeze their catch on board. This greatly improved the efficiency of the ships because now did they no longer have to come back to port after a certain period of time to unload their catch so it doesn’t go bad. Now with refrigeration they could stay out for as long as they could and fish until their boat couldn’t hold anymore fish. This was different than before because if the fishing was bad on a particular day it wasn’t as bad anymore because they could just wait a day and not worry about the fish they already caught going bad. Also with the ability to freeze fish people who didn’t live along the coast could get fish, which greatly increased the demand for fish. With more powerful engines and the ability of refrigeration on board ships, ships began to be built larger and larger and designed to go further offshore. In the nineteen sixties there were many foreign ships from other countries fishing off the coast of the U.S. while U.S. fisherman were not allowed to fish in those waters. At this time foreign fishing vessels had accounted for taking 71 percent of the total catch off of American shores. To change that in 1976 the U.S. government enacted the magnuson fishing act which gave the U.S. government control of the waters from 3 miles to 200 miles offshore. This act started the making of the first factory ships also called distant water ships. These ships would go out hundreds of miles offshore and stay there for weeks at a time. The factory ships had the ability to catch and process the fish onboard which exponentially increased the amount of fish they could catch. A quote from a fisherman on one of these boats explains it well "Try to imagine a mobile and completely self-contained timber- cutting machine that could smash through the roughest trails of the forest, cut down trees, mill them, and deliver consumer-ready lumber in half the time of normal logging and milling operations. This was exactly what factory trawlers did” (William Warner). In the early nineteen eighties was the start of modern fishing. The technology then was very similar than it is now and has not changed too much. Declining stocks of fish in the water meant that not much new technology was needed to be made. Understanding the history of how the technology of commercial fishing grew can help one to see why there are problems and controversy in the current fishing era on the amount of fish one is allowed to catch in a year.

            The amount of money made per year, and the overall economic success in the fishing industry is directly proportional to how much fish is landed each year. This is why it is so important to know what is being done to limit the amount of fish that can legally be landed each year. With each new technological improvement in fishing the amount of fish that could be caught increased. For years fishing has gone on with basically unchecked limits and not much research done to study how the population of fish is doing against constant new technological development. Many times throughout the last hundred years there have been hints that something needs to be done to protect the fish to keep them in a healthy population. For example, many times in the past fisherman had been catching small haddock in their nets, these fish had not been fully grown and they are important to the stock of fish in the ocean because they are needed to continue the cycle of life and keep their numbers up. Most of the time the fish that had been caught in the nets had been killed in the process and were just being thrown back. In the year 1930 there had been 37 million haddock that had been caught, and there was an estimated 80 million small non adult haddock that had been accidently caught and killed and just thrown back into the water. Many times there was discussion about increasing the size of the holes in the fishing nets to allow smaller fish to swim through unharmed but nothing was done for decades, and it wasn’t until 1953 that a law was put into place on the minimum size the holes in the nets could be. Before the magnuson act there were foreign ships taking large, unknown amounts of fish off of the U.S. coast. The U.S. tried to regain control over their waters be passing the magnuson act in 1976. This was supposed to help stop the decreasing numbers of fish stock from getting lower by kicking out foreign ships. The act was successful in kicking out foreign ships, but it allowed bigger U.S. ships to fish in those waters. More ships than before started fishing in the newly opened waters as described in a quote "No one knew exactly how many newcomers had arrived during the last four months of 1977, but according to one report, new boats entered the fishery at the astounding rate of about one every four days" (Margret Dewar). This act greatly increased how successful the fishing industry was and there were record numbers of fish being brought in. The cities and towns along the coastline were doing great and more and more people got into commercial fishing as more jobs opened up because there was great demand and great supply.

            The fishing industry was booming and it was not long before fishing with a quota system that was set too high caught up to the industry. In the early 1980’s the amount of fish stock dropped and each of the fish with the highest demand and easily caught in large numbers such as pollock cod and haddock, were slowly starting to become more and more scarce. From then on there have been quotas set. A quota is the amount of a certain type of fish that can be caught in a year. Once the number has been reached no more of that fish can be caught that year. Also different seasons for catching different fish had been put in place. The fish that have these season restrictions are not allowed to be caught during certain months. They do this to protect the fish during the time that they breed, to hopefully help rebuild the population back to what it once was. The fishing industry will most likely never be as strong as it once was but with strict regulations it can slowly rebuild. Despite the ups and downs in the past, the fishing industry is still a very important part of the economy of coastal communities.

            All of the fisherman and fish distributors have had to change their way of business in the last few decades and even today to adapt to the smaller more regulated industry. Those who haven’t have most likely lost their jobs. In New England after strict quotas were set in the number of fishing boats went from 500 to 253. This cost thousands of jobs and many people who have fished all their life have lost their career. The small business fish distributors have had to change their ways of marketing. The price of fish has greatly increased in the past few decades but there is not as much money being made because there is less fish to be bought and sold. Sometimes fish is being bought from one distributor and then being sold to another for more money. This would never have happened in the past before the lower quota limits because there was more fish to go around and everyone could get their share to sell at a reasonable price. There is also much more competition in today’s fishing industry so many fish distributors have to keep their prices low to try to sell as much fish as they can. The NOAA or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the organization that sets the quotas for the number of pounds of fish that can be landed in a year, and many people blame them for ruining the economic strength of the fishing industry. Some believe that they are setting reasonable quotas and rules on when and how much you can fish, and others think that they “do nothing but take jobs”(George Niles, lobster fisherman). Despite the different opinions that people have on the NOAA the fact is that fisherman and fish distributors need to change how they buy and sell fish. The strict quota system can be used to their advantage, because with very strict limits some fish’s prices greatly increase while other fish’s prices drop. Fish distributors can use this to their advantage by timing when they buy fish so that they can buy it while it’s very cheap and sell it when the price has gone way up. Fisherman can use similar tactics by going after a certain type of fish that no one else is going after, so they are one of the few with that type of fish so people will have to buy from them.

            The fishing industry is very important to coastal communities, and despite many changes in technology and its ups and downs and more recent depression it still plays a vital role in these communities. The stocks of fish and threatened species of fish are being protected by the NOAA and hopefully one day their numbers will be back to what they once were and the fishing industry can try again and re-grow the industry back to its former size, but with the sustainability of the future in mind.

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"History of the Groundfishing Industry of New England." History of the Groundfishing Industry of New England. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2013.

"US Magnuson Fishing Act (MAGNUSON)." MAGNUSON Case. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2013.

"Catch-share Quotas Eliminate Commercial Fishing Jobs." Welcome to Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2013.

"How Are Fishing Quotas Set?" HowStuffWorks. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2013.

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"Economy: Commercial Fishing - a Cultural Tradition." Commercial Fishing. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.

"Fishermen Say ‘Catch Share’ Could Impale Industry." Fishermen Say Catch Share Could Impale Industry RSS 20. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.

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"Fishing Industry in the United States." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Mar. 2013. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.

blog 10

So far I have been getting used to what it is like to work in a fish wharf very well. Getting up early feels normal to me now, but the only downside is at the end of every day I am very tired and have to go to bed early because basically since I get up very early it whatever time it is, it will feel a few hours later to me. Also I am getting used to the work that we do and am learning different things. Monday was a very busy day and wasn’t too exciting. Something that me and another worker had to do was put fish into boxes to be frozen. First we weighed the fish and put them in boxes so each box weighed 40 pounds, this was different than what we normally do because it usually either 60 or 100 pound boxes. If the boxes weigh too much you have to take out a bigger fish and put in a smaller fish to make it the correct weight. It sounds easy and is easy, but sometimes it can get annoying when you can’t find the correct sized fish to put in. Freezing fish is a good way to store it if you don’t have anyone to sell it to. If the fish is frozen it will last a long time in the freezer before it goes bad, as opposed to it going bad in less than a week if just put in the cooler. The bad part about it is that you can’t sell frozen fish for as much as non frozen because people know that even though it is still fine to eat, it is older than non frozen fish.

blog 9

On Friday my day was different than normal, and I liked it better than what I have normally been doing. First I had to bring fish next door to where I am working, there they cut is and clean it and it turns into a fillet. From there the fish has to be treated differently. It has to be put in plastic tubs that are sealed and can only be stored on plastic pallets. This is because bacteria can grow on the normal wood pallets, and could contaminate the fish. After the fish was all set and in all the plastic tubs I got to load it onto a truck. After it was on I had to make deliveries to a few different restaurants. I learned the hard way to make sure the emergency brake is not on while driving, because the truck will not go more than 5 mph. I liked driving the truck, and it was actually very easy to drive it on just the regular roads. When I got to the restaurants backing up was more difficult. This is because you can’t look directly back because there is no window. You have to look at the mirrors on either side of the truck and things in the mirrors are closer than they appear. Also the steering wheel is flat instead of angled because you are sitting above the wheels and above the engine. There was a very experienced truck driver with me so I was not too worried and they helped me out. I actually did very well backing up, but I was glad to have someone there who knew what they were doing to make sure I was doing things right.

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The other day was normal, but I got to go to the fish auction in the beginning of the day. The boats that catch fish bring the fish to the auction very early in the morning, at around three in the morning. The people at the auction then weigh it and put it in totes and stack them. Before the day starts the managers from different wharfs come down to the auction to look at the fish to see if they want to but it. There is a computer program that the managers bid against each other to try to buy the fish. Usually they will buy fish that they already have a buyer for or know that they can get a buyer easily because it is bad to have fish that is unsold and in stock because it will eventually go bad and will have to be sold for bait at a much lower price than what was paid for it.

            While I was at the auction waiting to pick up fish with the truck driver I learned that different fishing boats stay out for different lengths of time. The shortest is a day boat, which will go out for just the day, the next is a short trip boat which will stay out for a few days, and a trip boat which will stay out for about a week. The fish from a day boat is worth more because it is always fresh because it is only a day old. 

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The other day was one of the busiest in a long while. It started off normally but then a big boat came around back on the dock and it was a swordfish boat. It took a very long time to get the boat unloaded because they had many fish on the boat. The fish were kept in the bottom of the boat and the fishermen used a crane to get them from inside the boat to on the deck. Then we had to give them another rope to attach to the tail of the fish so we could use another crane to get them on the dock. We had to stack them on plastic pallets and this was hard because they kept sliding off. My hands got very cold because they fish were almost frozen because they were kept in ice for days. Some of the fish that they had weighed hundreds of pounds and one that they had was almost four hundred pounds, and that was after they cut off the head and take out the guts.

 I learned that the boats that go fishing stay out for weeks and this particular boat was out for almost a month and went to Florida and out to the gulf stream to follow the fish. While it was interesting to see the fish it did get repetitive doing the same thing for hours.

blog 5

Today was a normal day and it started of raining and slow, but then things speed up. I started off making more boxes and cleaning up around the place. There has been a rat that we have been trying to catch for the past few days and I actually saw it up close for the first time. We thought that it was in the building hiding under pallets or boxes but I saw it under the dumpster, which is outside. I repositioned the rat trap to be under the dumpster and hopefully it will catch it.

            A truck came by today to pick up vats of old fish that’s not edible anymore and will be used as lobster bait. I learned that it is called gurry. It smelled very bad and it was actually very disgusting.

            The forklifts that we use run on propane, and one of them ran out of fuel today. I got to learn how to replace it. I unscrewed the line that was going to the tank and had to undo a latch to get the empty tank off. Then I took a full tank and it was very heavy and I had to lift it on and screw the fuel line back in. A big truck came in today to pick up fish to bring to New York. I used plastic wrap to wrap up the stacks of boxes so they hopefully won’t shift or spill during shipping. I learned to wear gloves while using the wrap because it gets hot as it spins in your hand.

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Yesterday it was much busier and there were more things to do. There were many trucks outside that were loading and unloading fish. There was also a truck that unloaded a pallet that had a bunch of flat unmade cardboard boxes on it. We had to unwrap the stack and cut the plastic straps that were holding it in place. Then we had to assemble the boxes. I used a large industrial sized stapler to staple the sides together so they would be sturdy. It was raining out so there was not much that we could do outside, because we were supposed to clean the dock that day.

            Later on there was a lot of boxes of fillets of fish that had to be put in the freezer. Me and another worker went to the freezer and had to make room for them to be stacked. When I went into the freezer it was much colder than I expected. It felt just cold for the first few minuets but then as I was stacking the boxes it started to get unbearably cold. All I had on was a sweater and a t-shirt and I learned from that to always bring a jacket when going into the freezer. I later learned that it was negative ten degrees Fahrenheit in the freezer. If I had brought a jacket I would have liked to have gone in the freezer because it was something different that I had never done before.

first day back from break

The first day back from April break was easy, and was uneventful. I came into work at my normal time and had to shovel ice into vats. Then we went on as usual and boxed fish. There was a large rat that had been spotted running around and we spent some time trying to catch it. We had to set up a very big mouse trap and baited it and hit it under the pallets that it was hiding under. I took a flashlight and looked all around on the floor under everything to see where it could be hiding. I couldn't find it but hopefully the trap will get it.

            We forgot to put up the open flag but that didn't matter too much because it was slow and there were not many customers anyways. I had to do a few things earlier than usual because I had to leave early for a doctor’s appointment. I iced all of the fish in the cooler and then I cleaned it because it was very slippery in certain spots. Before I left I made a delivery to the Gloucester House restaurant. I like doing deliveries because you see different people and you get to sit down for a bit while you drive.

day 3

            Today my day started off differently. I go to go to the fish auction in downtown Gloucester and pick up a lot of fish. Me and another worker went in one of the trucks to get the fish. We had to put our tags on the totes of fish so they could be recognized as ours. It was very cold in the building because it was basically just a giant refrigerator. When we got back we had to box the fish like usual, but today there was a lot of fish. We actually had to make two trips in the truck just to get it all.

            After we were done boxing there was a lot of cleaning up to do. I took a few hours to clean and organize everything. Then I made a delivery to the causeway restaurant. I drove the truck and backed it up behind the restaurant. I was glad that there were no other trucks there because there is not much room for deliveries and it is hard to back up.

            When got back I helped two people to buy fish. They didn’t know what they wanted and they spoke Chinese so it was difficult to understand them. For some reason they wanted their fish in three different bags. It was raining and I had to carry their fish to their car because it was too heavy for him. Then I had to ice all of the fish in the cooler and clean up a bit more then I got to go home, about an hour an a half after I usually get out.

day 2

Today was somewhat similar as my first day. It started off with unloading the fish off of the trucks that just came from the auction. We weighed and boxed a lot of fish and that took up a couple of hours. Then I had to shovel a lot of ice from the ice making machine into large vats. Then a few customers came in and I helped them. They spoke Spanish and it was hard to understand them. I really think I should learn more Spanish in college.

            After our break me and another worker replaced a few of the flaps that hang over the large doors that the forklifts go in and out of. I had to drill holes in the flaps and then cut them to size. I used a very sharp knife that went through the hard flaps easily. The person who I was working with told me how he had gone to the hospital a few times because of knife accidents. The truck from Boston came back with more fish that we had to box and send out also. I went on a delivery to a place called Pidgin cove and it was different. I had to buzz in just to get in the door and then I had to sign in on a sheet with my name and time I got there. I also had to wear a hair net over my hat for some reason. Everything seemed very clean there and they even took temperature measurements of the back of the truck. At the end of the day I sprayed the floor down with a hose and swept it and me and another worker also cleaned the bathroom. I learned that I like to fix things.

blog 1

            Today was my first day on my internship. I have to be there very early and had to get up at 5:30. That wasn’t so hard today but I wonder after a few days in a row if it is going to get harder to get up that early. Today I had to weigh fish in either 60 pound boxes or 100 pound boxes. There are a lot of different types of fish to know the names of. I then got to drive the box truck to a few different restaurants around Gloucester to deliver fillets of fish. Driving the truck is fun. I had never driven something like it before and it reminded me of driving a bus because you are sitting on top of the engine very high up instead of it being in front of you and being lower to the ground. “Lunch” break is at eight in the morning and that was very different. Even though I wore new gloves the whole day my hands still got very dirty. I learned that there are many more non English speakers around here than I thought, and even though I took Spanish the past four years it might be helpful if I kept taking it through college. At the end of the day I had to clean up by sweeping around and wiping down various tables. Also the pallets that the fish goes on need to be stacked up. I learned that this is very tough work and is also very different.

chris wrights outline

Chris Wright

Score thesis and outline

1)      Introduction: the fishing industry is greatly beneficial to the economy of costal Massachusetts communities

1.       Over one million jobs in the U.S. are from commercial fishing alone

2.       32 billion dollars in income from the fishing industry in the U.S.

3.       Thesis: the fishing industry is greatly beneficial to the local economy by providing jobs and limiting the amount of imported seafood.

2)      The fishing industry provides millions of jobs to U.S. citizens

1.       Past few years many jobs have been lost to china

2.       China sells frozen seafood

3.       Local fisheries give jobs to local people and are competing against china

3)      New regulations have been put on the number of fish a boat can catch par season

1.       New limit of cod has cut catch by 77 percent

2.       The NOAA has put these regulations in place

3.       In recent years many fisherman have lost their jobs

4)      How  have the small business fishing companies managed to stay in business

1.       What are good marketing strategies that they use?

2.       How do they stay competitive with other companies and keep their prices low

3.       How do they get people to buy their fish when there are many other companies that also sell fish

5)      Why is the limit on the amount of cod so much more important than on other fish

1.       Cod has in the past been widely available and cheap

2.       It can be cached easily and swims with other fish so it is accidently caught a lot also

3.       Most fishing ships depend on catching cod to make money, more so than any other fish

6)      What adjustments have companies had to make in order to stay in business while regulations are changing

1.       How have the dealt with less fish that is available to them

2.       How have they had to change their marketing strategies

3.       What will they do if there are even more regulations put on

7)      Conclusion: how is it important that the local fishing industries stay in business and how do the catch regulations effect the economy and how many jobs are available

Sources:

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"Economy: Commercial Fishing - a Cultural Tradition." Commercial Fishing. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.

"Fishermen Say ‘Catch Share’ Could Impale Industry." Fishermen Say Catch Share Could Impale Industry RSS 20. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.

New Regulations Threaten New England's Fishing Industry." Fox News. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.

"Fishing Industry in the United States." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Mar. 2013. Web. 24 Mar. 2013.

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