Fish Scales: Scale and method in Social Science Research for North Pacific and West Coast Fishing Communities

摘要: Under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA) other legal mandates, NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is conducting basic social science research on fishing communities. This differs from issue-driven impact assessments in that it does not address pending policy changes or specified locations. As a consequence, NMFS’s must cover very large geographic scales broad array of analytical issues. These needs are tension with traditional ethnographic methods anthropology MSFCMA’s focus community as unit analysis. paper describes how anthropologists at Alaska Science Center Northwest navigate these conflicting imperatives by adopting large-scale profiling using indicators informed site visits, advocating “nested-scale” framework imbricates le...