Adaptations and well-being: Gulf of Alaska fishing families in a changing landscape.

摘要: Abstract Over the last three decades, fishing families in Gulf of Alaska have adapted to numerous multifaceted conditions response near constant flux stocks, markets, governance regimes, and broader sociocultural environmental changes. Based on an analysis seven focus groups held across communities, this study explores variety strategies that employed adapt changing from 1980s present day. Furthermore, examines how those evolved over time accommodate cumulative effects synergisms. While continue employ long-standing adaptation fisheries portfolio diversification increasing effort, they are also integrating new adaptations into their framework as management systems, demographics, technologies shift choices about made. This demonstrates implicit intra- inter-personal well-being tradeoffs within that, while potentially allowing for sustained livelihoods, may undermine other values individuals derive fishing.