Prepared by
Anthony Davis
Student Participation and Training
Budget Notes and Justification
Social Research for Sustainable Fisheries (SRSF) is a partnership (people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf) built from the support won through SSHRCC’s Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) pilot program. SRSF’s current core membership is comprised of two small boat fish harvester associations (Gulf Nova Scotia Bonafide Fishermen’s Association (GNBFA) and Guysborough County Inshore Fishermen’s Association (GCIFA)), one Mi’kmaq community organization concerned with natural resource use (Paq’tnkek Fish and Wildlife Society (PFWS)), and university-seated researchers. This partnership’s primary goal is to build social and interdisciplinary research capacity and literacy within the community partners, as well as linkages between the community partners and university-seated research expertise. Three distinct, but intersected, approaches have been employed by SRSF to achieve this goal. These are: 1) the design and conduct of primary research on topics reflecting the community partners’ concerns and needs; 2) the use of thematic research workshops focused on research design, methodology and data analyses topics, and; 3) an ‘outcomes orientation’ that prepares material for wide dissemination through means such as the SRSF web-site, research reports, SRSF Fact Sheets, community and industry publication articles, conference presentations, and scholarly articles.
Thus far, SRSF has completed 3 socio-economic context studies and 2 primary research projects. From this work, SRSF has produced 4 research instruments, 5 research reports, 11 SRSF Fact Sheets, 13 community and trade publication articles, 1 poster, 5 conference presentations, and 4 scholarly articles. Additionally, SRSF has assembled a researcher resource pool and partner organization research resource inventories. Ancillary goals such as fostering working relations among the partners and between the partners and other organizations and community groups, particularly between the Mi’kmaq and non-native marine harvesters in the post-Marshall era, continue to be addressed through the focus on building research capacity and linkages. Projects with each partner focused on documenting aspects of the ecological knowledge of peer and community recommended ‘local experts’ continue through SRSF’s third year.
Thus far, SRSF has employed 16 senior level undergraduates (6 Mi’kmaq and 10 ISAR students) and 4 recent graduates. The senior undergraduates have participated in most aspects of SRSF’s research projects, producing as a result 8 research and intern reports. The 4 recent graduates, engaged as SRSF Project Officers, have deepened their experience with and understanding of community-based, applied research. SRSF also supports 3 Community Research Co-ordinators within each of the core partners and one full-time Research Co-ordinator housed within SRSF’s St.FX office. To date, over $104,000 in additional funds has been won in support of SRSF’s and its partners’ work. Finally, the alliance is developing several proposals, with a total value in excess of $3.5 million, for resources that will broaden and deepen partner capacity.
The Completion Grant will be used by SRSF: to finish research currently underway, to develop more thoroughly the applied and action attributes of research outcomes and SRSF processes, to intersect research results and capacity more directly with marine resource public policy, to prepare monograph-length studies of research results, to present SRSF processes and outcomes in a CD format, to develop additional funding proposals, to provide students with additional applied research opportunities and experiences, and to host a region-wide workshop involving Mi’kmaq and non-Mi’kmaq community organizations and the academic and government research community. The workshop will be focused on the presentation and analysis of SRSF’s research processes and results, and on the establishment of deeper and broader linkages among participants.
The core objective of the SRSF Project is to build fisheries-focused social and interdisciplinary research capacity within a collaboration of Mi’kmaq and non-native fisheries organizations and university researchers. This alliance is intended to position the community partners with research know-how and knowledge resources sufficient to enable independent and confident participation within further research-focused collaborations and initiatives. The alliance also introduces university researchers to community organizations with a view to facilitating their deeper engagement in community-based research issues.
SRSF employs three discrete, but inter-related, approaches in meeting its core objective. First of all, research interests are determined on the basis of community partner defined issues and needs. This process begins with the community organizations determining their needs through consultation within their constituencies. These are brought to the SRSF Steering Committee for discussion and prioritization. Here, research needs are developed into researchable questions. Thereafter, community partner and SRSF staff design the research and develop methodological tools. All alliance research staff participate and share in these experiences, irrespective of whether the research issues being treated are ‘theirs’. This practice broadens and deepens community partner experience with research design and methodological processes, while also facilitating inter-organization working relationships.
A central guiding principle throughout is that research results are only as good as the design and methodology employed to generate them. That is, SRSF takes the approach that research must be designed to embody methodological rigor of an order that assures results will welcome the test of public inspection. The partnership understands that rigorously-designed research is not an exercise in confirmation. It is also understood that a commitment to well designed and methodologically rigorous social research will provide rich and useful documentation that will generate outcomes challenging to expectations and received understandings. For SRSF, building social research capacitation begins with a commitment to social research processes that will produce reliable, representative, and defensible outcomes.
To this end, the SRSF alliance has used workshops to design and to develop research tools, e.g., questionnaires and interview schedules. The surveys and interviews are, in design, aspects of an integrated research process, the details of which are described in the research reports and documents archived in the project web site (people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf/2008.htm). Workshops address all aspects of the research process ranging from what is needed in order to operationalize ideas, concepts and issues, through sample selection procedures, to conventions and needs respecting question development, tape recording interviews and working with nautical charts. Once a series of workshops is completed, university and community organization staff conduct the research together, with university staff taking lead responsibility for administrative tasks, e.g., tracking interview completions etc.
A second feature of the SRSF approach lies in its emphasis on building a broad network of connections among community partners and university researchers. This is also accomplished, in large part, through research capacitation workshops. Here SRSF’s community partners are introduced to outside researchers with expertise in a wide variety of social and interdisciplinary research techniques. On their part, researchers are informed about the interests and needs of SRSF’s community partners. Additionally, the community partners and SRSF staff organize and participate in workshops focused on specific types of qualitative and quantitative data analysis software packages such as SPSS, Nudist and MapInfo. Finally, community partner and SRSF staff participate in workshops targeting the access and use of government databases such as Statistics Canada census information. Since deemed ‘foundational’, research design and methodology workshops have been front-loaded during the alliance’s first two years, i.e., 2000 and 2001. One outcome has been the development of an on-line, interdisciplinary Researcher Resource Pool comprised of researchers who have agreed to provide design and data interpretation advice (people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf/2004_RRP.htm). The researcher pool has largely replaced, with substantive practical effects, the array of co-investigators and collaborators included in the initial CURA proposal. Researchers are now kept abreast of SRSF work and outcomes through periodic mail-outs. SRSF workshops now focus on thematically specific topics such as data analyses, writing-up research results, and research proposal composition.
A strong emphasis on the preparation and dissemination of research results comprises the third aspect of the SRSF approach. From the outset, SRSF has been ‘outcomes oriented’. SRSF’s Steering Committee decided, in line with social research conventions, that completion of extensive and integrated socio-economic and cultural background profiles sited within each partner organization setting would be the first research goal. These documents were completed by Spring 2001 (people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf/2006.htm). Numerous quantitative and qualitative data bases were created through the course of this work. These are now catalogued in the community partner ‘Research Resource Inventories’ and are available for use by members of their constituencies and in developing collaborations with other researchers and projects.
Once a research project is completed, alliance staff complete a preliminary data analysis for preparation as a SRSF Research Report. The reports are distributed to the partner organizations’ memberships and communities. Additionally, the SRSF Fact Sheet series has been developed as a means to prepare and to disseminate thematically focused research outcomes such as use of PCs by fish harvesters, recruitment to fisheries, cultural connections, and the challenges facing representative organizations (people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf/Fact%20Sheets/FSToC.htm). The information gathered for the background documents has proven critical to this work. The fact sheets are distributed to community partner constituencies as well as to other fisheries organizations and the media. Several of the fact sheets have been published either in their entirety or in an amended form by fisheries industry and community newspapers. When opportunity avails, the research results are developed for submission to academic journals. One piece has appeared in Marine Policy (2001), others are under review with Human Ecology and Human Organization. An overview of SRSF’s work appeared in Canadian Issues (2001). In our practice, scholarly preparations and submissions follow satisfaction of SRSF’s commitment to a priority focus on community partner research capacitation and information needs. SRSF and community partner staff also have participated in and presented at a variety of community-focused action/applied research meetings. It is anticipated that both the SRSF model and ‘story’ as well as its research results will be of interest to future applied research and academic congresses.
Through this approach SRSF has also attended to many of the ancillary, but important, objectives as specified in the original SSHRCC proposal (p.6). Among these are facilitation of connections between university researchers and community partners, facilitation of working relations between the Mi’kmaq and non-native fish harvester communities in the post-Marshall era, engaging the community partners in collaborative research with other community-based organizations and government agencies, developing a practice of regular and diverse communication of results, and provision of substantial applied social and interdisciplinary learning experiences for students, university researchers and community organization staff. Of particular note has been SRSF’s role in facilitating informal roundtable meetings and dialogues between Mi’kmaq and non-Mi'kmaq fish harvesters and their leaders, respecting the meanings, concerns and processes associated with implementing the Marshall Decision with local, high value fisheries such as lobster.
In the original proposal this alliance planned and budgeted for an independent
external evaluation. This evaluation was conducted by Drs. Jean Schensul,
Director, The Institute for Community Research, and Stephen Schensul, University
of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut. Prior to a visit with SRSF and the
partners, the Schensuls were sent six binders of material for review, including
all budget statements and meeting minutes. They conducted their site visit
between March 21st and 26th. Meetings were held with each alliance partner and
individual interviews were conducted with all SRSF staff and associated persons.
The Schensul evaluation is archived in its entirety within the SRSF web-site at:
people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf . In their evaluation the Schensuls highlight the
following points:
SRSF attaches considerable importance to the Schensul evaluation and recommendations. The alliance is of the opinion that independent external evaluation should be an expected core attribute of performance assessment and indicators. SRSF has welcomed the Schensuls’ positive and encouraging assessment of the alliance’s organization, governance processes, commitment to the design and completion of substantial research, and the alliance’s outcomes orientation, particularly with respect to broad-band communication and dissemination of results. SRSF has also welcomed the Schensuls’ recommendations and advice with respect to SRSF’s future direction, especially the comments concerning the linking of the rich ecological knowledge research results with community partner issues and needs. Certainly the two year Completion Grant will enable us to more thoroughly address the evaluators’ recommendations than would otherwise have been the case. SRSF’s intentions in this respect are evident in the Research Plans outlined for Years 4 and 5.
For SRSF, tangible outcomes are a key performance indicator. While difficult to assess the impact of SRSF materials, community partner staff, organizational executives, and some community members report that they are much better informed and more confident when participating in resource management meetings. Another tangible indicator of SRSF’s performance and impact is found in the employment and educational success of students who have worked within and experienced SRSF’s processes. For instance, two are pursuing further advanced study, one of the Mi’kmaq students has completed an education degree while another has completed her undergraduate degree, two students have continued working within community-based social development initiatives, and three are employed in aquatic resource settings. It is reasonable to assume that experience garnered during their time with SRSF contributed to their success.
Research Plans - Years 4 and 5
Generally speaking, the Completion Grant will provide SRSF with the means and
the time to complete the work underway in a more tempered and thorough manner
and, most notably, to develop fully the applied and action attributes and
potentials of this work and the new research that is anticipated. More
specifically, Years 4 and 5 will feature…
A. Governance
SRSF is governed by a Steering Committee chaired by the Project Director and Principal Investigator. Following some initial learning experiences and a re-organization, the Steering Committee is now composed of representatives from each of the partner organizations (the GNSBFA, GCIFA, PFWS), one representative from the St.FX social research faculty (Dr. Monica Diochon, Business Administration), the ISAR Co-ordinator (Dr. Peter Clancy) and two social scientists drawn from other Atlantic Canadian universities (Drs. Richard Apostle, Dalhousie University, and Barbara Neis, Memorial University of Newfoundland). Other university researchers, at St. FX and elsewhere, are involved on a project by project basis, or engaged by the partners through the Researcher Resource Pool. Ordinarily the Steering Committee meets monthly. Decision-making is largely consensual, although voting occurs to formalize decisions (minutes are available at: people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf/2002c.htm). The Steering Committee operates with direct reference to the principles of transparency, inclusivity, and accountability. These guiding principles are embedded in the Memorandum of Understanding that was developed and signed at the alliance’s outset (people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf/2002a.htm). All SRSF documents are archived in the project’s web-site. While SRSF’s core partners govern through the Steering Committee, all understand and welcome SRSF’s responsibility to engage the participation of additional community organizations. SRSF accomplishes this through inviting particular organizations to participate in specific research initiatives. For instance, the Richmond County Inshore Fishermen’s Association was invited by the GCIFA to partner in a survey involving lobster license holders, and the PFWS has engaged in collaborations with the Pictou Landing First Nation. Over the next two years, the SRSF partnership will continue to broaden and deepen its relations with other Mi’kmaq and fisheries organizations.
B. Additional Research Funding
From the outset the alliance has been oriented to pursue additional funding. To this end, SRSF has been committed to developing its research capacity track record, as well as well as a reputation for completing projects undertaken and for delivering concrete, meaningful and diverse outcomes. The alliance is convinced that success in competitions will be contingent on these attributes. To date…
- SRSF has won 5 grants in support of student employment from Human Resources and Development Canada (total value of $5,800).
- SRSF has won 3 Fisheries and Oceans Science and Technology Horizon Internships in support of graduated student positions (Project Officer) (total value of $36,000).
- The Guysborough County Inshore Fishermen’s Association, with the support of SRSF, has won two half-year Fisheries and Oceans Science and Technology Horizon Internships (total value of $12,000).
- SRSF in partnership with Gulf Nova Scotia Bonafide Fishermen’s Association has won an eight month Fisheries and Oceans Science and Technology Horizon Internship (total value of $9,000).
- SRSF in partnership with Gulf Nova Scotia Bonafide Fishermen’s Association won a Fisheries and Oceans research contract, Harvesters Ecological Knowledge and White Hake Predation on Juvenile Lobster in St. Georges Bay, Phase I, July 2001-April 2002 (total value of $4,600).
- SRSF in partnership with Gulf Nova Scotia Bonafide Fishermen’s Association and in collaboration with Dr. Mark Hanson, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, won a Fisheries and Oceans Science. Subvention Research Grant, April 2002 – March 2003, entitled: An Interdisciplinary Study of St. Georges Bay Fish Harvesters’ Ecological Knowledge and White Hake Predation on Juvenile Lobster, Phase II (total value of $15,190). This was one of 18 awards granted from a pool of over 180 applicants in a nation-wide competition.
- Paq'tnkek Fish and Wildlife Society, partnered with university and DFO science, won a Fisheries and Oceans Science and Technology Horizon Internship in association with research concerning American Eel within the Antigonish and Pomquet estuaries (total value of $12,000).
- The Guysborough County Inshore Fishermen’s Association has developed research collaborations on two projects with Fisheries and Oceans Canada research scientists ($10,000).
Prior to the CURA Completion announcement, SRSF had decided to dedicate considerable effort during its third year to the pursuit of additional research funds. The following initiatives are underway:
- A multi-partner proposal in support of a 5 year project to develop on-line information, education and marketing services for small boat fisheries has been developed for submission in fall 2002 to the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (total value of $2,200,000).
- A Letter of Interest has been submitted to a Natural Resources Canada research programme titled Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation – Coastal Zone Management ($220,000 over two years).
- Three applications are being developed for submission to the Canadian Heritage Partnerships Fund – Canadian Culture Online Program. Topics vary from digitizing harvesters’ ecological knowledge as cultural knowledge through digitizing Mi’kmaq historical relations with American Eel, to the social-historical development and resource management implications of a lobster fishing berth system (projected total value of $200,000 to $500,000).
- a team composed of marine biologists, ecologists, fisheries scientists, nutritionists, political scientists, and sociologists are forming a collaboration with the Paq'tnkek Fish and Wildlife Society to launch a 3 to 5 year interdisciplinary study of American Eel within the Antigonish and Pomquet Harbours and watersheds. This collaboration is targeting a variety of government agency and research council programmes for support (project est. value of $400,000 - $600,000).
If successful in winning a CURA Completion Grant, SRSF will be developing further proposals and strategies for submission to Foundations and other organisations oriented to support SRSF’s applied research and sustainable communities focus.
Dr. Anthony Davis, SRSF Director, works in close collaboration with the Research Co-ordinator and is responsible for the overall management of SRSF. The Director facilitates definition of research education and research project needs in collaboration with the Partner Organizations (POs), leads in matching university-seated research and research education expertise, organizes the conduct of external evaluations, oversees the development of the web-site and outcomes, e.g., reports, and educational materials for dissemination, and participates in specific research activities.
Dr. John Wagner, SRSF Research Co-ordinator (RC), works in close collaboration with the Director and POs. The RC is responsible for facilitating and delivering SRSF’s ‘on the ground’ activities. In particular, the RC assists the POs to define the specifics of research education, capacitation and project needs, takes the lead in organizing and delivering workshops and seminars, takes the lead in actualizing and overseeing the conduct of specific research projects, participates in SRSF’s research education and applied research activities, and participates in the delivery of draft documents and materials.
SRSF Project Officer – This position, filled by recently graduated social science students, supports the work of the Director, RC, POs and the Steering Committee. The Project Officer is responsible for assisting in the organization of workshops. The Project Officer also works with the ISAR Co-ordinator to identify and prepare students for their Internships. Finally, the Project Officer works closely with the PO Community Research Co-ordinators (CRCs) on research projects and the development of deliverables such as articles for trade publications and fact sheets.
Co-ordinator (Dr. Peter Clancy), Interdisciplinary Studies in Aquatic Resources – works in collaboration with the Director, RC, Project Officer and POs in ‘fitting’ students with internship opportunities.
Community Research Coordinators (CRCs) – These are full-time positions seated within the POs. Ms. Kay Wallace (GNSBFA), Ms. Virginia Boudreau (GCIFA) and Mr. Kerry Prosper (PFWS) have been the POs CRCs since SRSF’s outset. The CRCs participate in all aspects of SRSF activities. They work with the Director and RC on the definition and delivery of research education and project needs; participate in all aspects of research skill development and applied research projects; co-ordinate their POs contributions to SRSF activities such as organizing participation in workshops and research projects; and provide on site supervision of and support for Student Interns and administer PO research projects. The CRCs also take the lead for their PO in the preparation and dissemination of research outcomes. For each of SRSF’s POs the CRC position constitutes a core building block in the development of research capacitation. The CRCs develop essential research skills, and are positioned to further develop organization research activities and membership research knowledge.
Student Research Assistants and Interns – These are senior ISAR and St. FX social science and business students. The student research assistants and interns have their skills and interests closely matched with the POs’ research education and project needs. The students work ‘on site’ within the POs and under the supervision of the CRCs and the Director. They are engaged in all aspects of research activities. In addition, the ISAR Interns work with the CRCs and a St. FX faculty supervisor to complete a research project as a requirement of their ISAR programme. This project’s results are delivered to the POs, contributing further to building organizational research capacitation. At least one of the student positions is filled by a Mi’Kmaq in recognition of the responsibility of PFWS to assist in developing research skills, education, and capacity within the Mi’Kmaq First Nation.
To date, sixteen senior level undergraduate students have been provided with the opportunity to contribute to and learn from community-focused applied social research. These students have been drawn largely from the Mi’kmaq community (six) and the ISAR programme (ten). For the partners and their communities the experiences and expertise of these students have helped in building applied social research capacity. Students are involved in all aspects of SRSF’s work and activities. For instance, they attend research design workshops, participate in data analyses, and prepare research results. In several instances they have presented and disseminated results through authoring an SRSF Fact Sheet. Several of the ISAR students have also completed their mandatory internships with SRSF’s community partners, thereby providing the partners with the results of a special research project in which they apply their interdisciplinary academic perspective. Examples of these internship reports and Fact Sheets are available at: people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf. SRSF’s Project Officer position has been supported mainly through successfully partnering with internship funding won through the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Science and Technology Internship Programme ($12,000 per internship). This strategy has enabled SRSF to appoint at least one recent social science graduate per year to the SRSF Project Officer position. The four persons employed thus far have contributed substantially to SRSF’s work, and benefited considerably from the opportunity to deepen their experience with community-focused applied social research. In short, SRSF has incorporated students and recent graduates within all features of its activities. Following is the list of intern papers and reports completed thus far:
| Baker, | Tanya (ISAR Student Intern, Fundy Fixed Gear Council). 2000. Developing an Integrated Communications Plan for the Fisheries Development Center. 22 pp. |
| Beson, | Mathew (GCIFA Student Researcher). 2001a. A bird’s eye view of the Arrow spill and its effects on the Chedabucto Bay area. 17 pp. |
| Beson, | Mathew (GCIFA Student Researcher). 2001b. Ichthyosporidium disease and its effects on the Herring stocks in the Chedabucto Bay. 11 pp. |
| Mattie, | Kirk (Bay of Fundy Marine Resource Centre ISAR Student Intern). 2000. Economically Enhancing the Southwest Nova Fixed Gear Fishing Industry: Understanding New England Models. 26 pp. |
| Peitzsche, | Judy (GCIFA Student Researcher). 2001a. The Canso Causeway and its effect on its surrounding areas. 11 pp. |
| Peitzsche, | Judy (GCIFA Student Researcher). 2001b. The Herring fishery in Chedabucto Bay from the 1960s to present. 11 pp. |
| Peters, | Chris. 2002 (GNSBFA ISAR Student Intern). Oil and Gas Development in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. |
| Purdy, | Jana (GNSBFA ISAR Student Intern). 2000. Science and Ecological Knowledge: Insight into conflicting claims concerning cod and hake predation on juvenile lobster. 14 pp. |
SRSF intends to continue the practice of providing and supporting substantial and diverse applied social and interdisciplinary research experiences for senior level ISAR, social science, and business undergraduates. In doing this, SRSF also intends to continue its practice of seeking out qualified students from Mi’kmaq and coastal communities, thereby enhancing human research resource capacity within and pertinent to these settings. Additionally, SRSF will continue to compete for additional internship funding in support of the SRSF Project Officer position.
SRSF’s proposed budget invests heavily in students and alliance staff since
building research capacity requires investment in people and skill development.
During the first year SRSF will maintain its focus on research and
dissemination. During the second year, SRSF will shift emphasis to assure that
projects are completed, outcomes are achieved and evaluated, and that outcomes
will be generated in integrated formats such as a CD ROM. These shifts are
evident in the proposed budget’s design.
A. Students - SRSF will employ 4 senior undergraduate social
science and business students at the set rate of $10/hr. x 40hr./wk x 18
wks. At least one of these students will be Mi’kmaq and will work with
the Paq’nkek Fish and Wildlife Society. One additional undergraduate
equivalent position is budgeted in support of the SRSF Project Officer
position at the rate of $10/hr. x 40hr./wk x 24wks/yr. The SRSF Project
Officer position, filled by a recent social science graduate, is funded
by combining the student equivalent position as described with full year
internship funding from the Fisheries and Oceans Science and Technology
Horizons Internships Program.
B. Non-Students
Davis,
Anthony and Svein Jentoft. 2001. The challenge and the promise of
indigenous peoples’ fishing rights – from dependency to agency. Marine
Policy 25: 223-237.
Davis,
Anthony and John Wagner. 2002. Who Knows? On the importance of
identifying 'experts' when researching local ecological knowledge.
(Forthcoming from Human Ecology) 46 pp.
A. Conferences and Posters (in chronological order)
Boudreau,
V. 2001. How can we have more participation by the fishermen in
fisheries science? Presented at the “Putting Fishers’ Knowledge to Work”
conference, UBC, Vancouver, Aug. 27-30, 2001.
Prosper,
Kerry. 2001. Traditional knowledge and human indicators. Presented at
the “Putting Fishers’ Knowledge to Work” conference, UBC, Vancouver,
Aug. 27-30, 2001.
SRSF
2001. Social Research for Sustainable Fisheries; a university community
research alliance. A poster presented at “Putting Fishers’ Knowledge to
Work” UBC, Vancouver, Aug. 27-30, 2001.
Davis,
Anthony and John Wagner. 2002. Who Knows? On the importance of
identifying ‘experts’ when researching local ecological knowledge.
Presented to the Ocean Management Research Network, Moncton, N.B., June
21, 2002.
Wagner,
John and Anthony Davis. 2002. Not all elderly are elders and not all
elders are elderly: on the social construction of wisdom in local
ecological knowledge. A paper to be presented at the annual meeting of
the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 20-24,
2002.
B. Professional, Trade and Community Journal Contributions
SRSF.
2001.Green Crab–threat or future of Guysborough fishermen? Guysborough
Journal, July 25.
SRSF.
2001. Benefits of fisheries research protocols. The Casket, Aug. 22, p.
11b.
SRSF.
2001. Diving into the Chowder? Canadian Issues, Aug./Sept., pp. 8-12.
SRSF
2001. Who benefits from research: the need for fisheries research
protocols. The Sou’wester: The Voice of Atlantic Canada’s Fishing and
Marine Industry, 33(22):9-11.
SRSF.
2001. Who’ll be left fishing? The dilemma of recruitment in small boat
fishing. The Sou’wester: The Voice of Atlantic Canada’s Fishing and
Marine Industry, 33(24):16-17.
SRSF.
2001. Study looks at impact of groundfish on young lobster. Atlantic
Fisherman, 17(10):21.
Davis,
Anthony and Virginia Boudreau. 2002. DFO intimidating, jeopardizing
small boat fish harvesters: underlying threat hangs over snow crab
fishers. The Casket, May 15, p. 11b.
SRSF.
2002. Who will be left fishing a generation from now? Part 1. Atlantic
Fishermen 18(6):11-12.
Davis,
Anthony and Virginia Boudreau. 2002. Manufacturing crisis and conflict
as fisheries management. The Sou’wester: The Voice of Atlantic Canada’s
Fishing and Marine Industry 34(16):10-13.
Davis,
Anthony and John Wagner. 2002. Politics of Fear: DFO heavy-handed in
buying back lobster, crab licences. Commentary Page, The Sunday Herald,
June 30, p. C2.
SRSF.
2002. Too many corporations chasing too few fish. Atlantic Fishermen
18(7):2.
Davis
A., V. Boudreau and J. Wagner. 2002. No Sense or substance. The Sunday
Herald, July 14, p. C5.
SRSF.
2002. Small boat fishermen are wired and ready. Atlantic Fishermen
18(9).
SRSF.
2002. Small Boat Fishermen are Wired and Ready. The Sou’wester: The
Voice of Atlantic Canada’s Fishing and Marine Industry, 34(22): 2-3.
Non-Refereed Contributions (SRSF Web Site – people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf )
A. SRSF Research Report Series
SRSF Research Report 1: SRSF with GCIFA. 2001. The SRSF Eastern Shore
Nova Scotian Coastal Fisheries Ecosystem Project: A Social Profile of LFA's 29
(Southern Richmond County), 31A and 31B (Guysborough County) Fisheries.
Preliminary Report of Research Results. 25 pp.
SRSF Research Report 2: SRSF with GNSBFA. 2001. The St. Georges Bay
Ecosystem Project: A Social Profile of Lobster License Holders in Pictou,
Antigonish and Inverness Counties. Preliminary Report of Research Results.
17 pp.
SRSF Research Report 3: Watts, Hadley. 2002. An interdisciplinary
study of St. Georges Bay Fish Harvesters’ ecological knowledge and White Hake (Urophycis
tenuis) predation on Juvenile American Lobster (Homarus americanus), Phase 1.
Preliminary report of research results. 21 pp.
SRSF Research Report 4: SRSF with PFWS. The Paq’tnkek Mi’kmaq and Kat
(American Eel – Anguilla rostrata). Preliminary Report of Research Results,
Phase I. 68 pp.
SRSF Research Report 5: Watts, Hadley and Holli MacPherson, An
interdisciplinary study of St. Georges Bay Fish Harvesters’ ecological knowledge
and White Hake (Urophycis tenuis) predation on Juveniule American Lobster, Phase
II. Preliminary Report of Research Results. 15pp.
B. SRSF Background and Working Paper Series
Boudreau, Virginia. 2001. Fishing For a Living. Prepared for the GCIFA, 38 pp.
Prosper, Kerry. 2001. Mi'Kmaq and the American Eel, Kat. Prepared for PFWS, 35 pp.
Wallace, Kay. 2001. Gulf Nova Scotia Small Boat Fisheries: A Socio-economic and Historical
Profile. Prepared for GNSBFA, 51 pp.
C. SRSF Fact Sheet Series
Fact Sheet 1: Highlights of the Marshall Decision. June 2001. 6 pp. (SRSF
team authored).
Fact Sheet 2: Who benefits from research: the need for a fisheries
research protocol. August 2001. 6 pp. (SRSF team authored).
Fact Sheet 3: Who’ll be left fishing? The dilemma of recruitment in
small boat fishing. October 2001. 8 pp. (SRSF team authored).
Fact Sheet 4: Lobster policy: inconsistencies in regulation and
questions about conservation measures. November 2001. 8 pp. (M. Beson and J.
Peitzche, student assistants).
Fact Sheet 5: The Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Herring fishery.
December 2001. 6 pp. (S. Kinnie, student intern).
Fact Sheet 6: Kat (American Eel) life history. January
2002. 8 pp. (M.J. Paulette and K. Prosper).
Fact Sheet 7: The Mi’kmaq relationship with Kat (American Eel).
Feb. 2002. (M.J. Paulette, K. Prosper).
Fact Sheet 8: Small boat fishermen are ready and wired: plugging in
and turning on to potentials and possibilities of the information highway and
the new economy. Feb. 2002. 8 pp. (SRSF authored).
Fact Sheet 9: Oil rigs or fishing boats: what are the potential
effects of oil and gas development on Southern Gulf Fisheries? April 2002.
8pp. (C. Peters and K.Wallace).
Fact Sheet 10: Fishermen’s Associations: Independent Agents or Paper
Tigers? June 2002. 10 pp. (V. Boudreau, J. Wagner and K. Wallace).
D. SRSF Partner Organisation Research Resource Inventories - 3 PO
bibliographic database tools describing all literature reviewed, raw data
collections, and correspondence.
E. SRSF Research Instruments
SRSF Coastal Fisheries Ecosystem Project, Phase I, interview questionnaire,
for a survey of Guysborough and Richmond County lobster license-holders, 18 pp.
http://people.stfx.ca/rsg/srsf/GCIFA/FishHarvestersStudy.html
SRSF Coastal Fisheries Ecosystem Project, Phase II, ecological knowledge interview schedule for in-depth interviews with Chedabucto Bay region, peer-referenced local fishing “experts”, 16 pp.
American Eel Mi’kmaq Local Ecological Knowledge Study, Phase 1 – Household Study, a research instrument developed for a survey of Afton households. 11 pp.
Wagner, John and Anthony Davis. 2002. Not all elderly are elders and not all elders are elderly: on the social construction of wisdom in local ecological knowledge. (Submitted to Human Organization), 30 pp.