Impacts of New Regulations on North Carolina Fishermen: A ClassificatoryAnalysis. Fisheries Research Reports to the Fisheries Moratorium Steering Committee

摘要

The findings presented here derive from eight months of research designed toaddress the following objectives: To develop a classification system that identifies and defines North Carolina fishers in terms of dependence on the resource, gear type, effort, motivation for fishing, and core and secondary species they target; To determine how different groups of fishers will be impacted by different regulatory scenarios; To evaluate North Carolina's licensing system in terms of its ability to monitor numbers, characteristics, and behaviors of commercial and recreational fishers; To assess the experiences of other states in developing and administering licensing programs.