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Social capital survey in groundfish

Metadata Updated: May 24, 2025

Quota allocations to groups of self-selecting permit holders (known as sector allocations) are increasingly being considered as a way to provide fishermen with greater control and flexibility in their fishing businesses while achieving efficiency gains. This new approach, which devolves substantial management responsibilities to groups of fishermen, represents a potential transformation in the relationship among permit holders as well as the relationship between permit holders and fisheries governance structures. A baseline of existing social capital in the groundfish fishery in the Northeast Region was conducted in 2010 by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. This survey, to be conducted twice over the next six years, will follow up on this earlier initiative and will enable researchers to measure the change in the types and strength of relationships between groundfish permit holders in the Northeast.

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Metadata Date May 15, 2025
Metadata Created Date October 19, 2024
Metadata Updated Date May 24, 2025
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Frequency Of Update notPlanned

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Harvested from NMFS NEFSC

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date May 15, 2025
Metadata Created Date October 19, 2024
Metadata Updated Date May 24, 2025
Reference Date(s) (publication)
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Contact Email
Guid gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:27522
Access Constraints Cite As: Northeast Fisheries Science Center, [Date of Access]: Social capital survey in groundfish [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/27522., Access Constraints: NEFSC Data Access Constraint: If data is stored on an internal NEFSC network, the requester may not have direct access to query the data unless they are also authorized for network access.
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Frequency Of Update notPlanned
Harvest Object Id 61690543-4f4c-4c38-b4e8-124036b6c4d4
Harvest Source Id 523189fa-8edc-48e1-9ec5-f571e7dd923c
Harvest Source Title NMFS NEFSC
Licence NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
Lineage responses were entered into spreadsheet from 2 surveys which were mailed out to groundfishermen in New England. Two surveys were one year apart.
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester True

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