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

ABSTRACT: Over the last three decades, fishing families in the Gulf of Alaska have adapted to numerous multifaceted conditions in response to near constant flux in stocks, markets, governance regimes, and broader sociocultural and environmental changes. Based on an analysis of seven focus groups held across Gulf of Alaska fishing communities, this study explores the variety of strategies that families across the Gulf have employed to adapt to changing conditions from the 1980s to the present day. Furthermore, the study examines how those strategies have evolved over time to accommodate cumulative effects and synergisms. While families continue to employ long-standing adaptation strategies of fisheries portfolio diversification and increasing effort, they are also integrating new adaptations into the

SUBMITTER: Szymkowiak M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7438215 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature