Sustainable Fisheries Division - Southeast Social Science Branch

The Southeast Regional Office (SERO) Fisheries Social Science Branch conducts applied research, analysis, and data collection on the use and management of living marine resources.  This includes the use of existing fisheries data bases, field research and data collection, and interdisciplinary collaboration (with staff from other NOAA Fisheries regions and centers, fishery management councils, state fisheries agencies, universities, and contractors).  For specific regulatory policies, actions, and alternatives, the work is conducted, summarized, reviewed and published by the councils and NOAA Fisheries in accord with existing federal requirements and guidelines.

 Publications

For copies of the following staff publications, please contact the Southeast Regional Office Social Science Branch by phone 727-824-5305 or email.

• Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on Gulf of Mexico Coastal Fishing Communities
   
• Factors Affecting Participation in Marine Fisheries: Case Studies in Georgia and North Florida
   
• Update on the Economic Status of the Gulf of Mexico Commercial Shrimp Fishery
   
• Fishery Analysis of the Commercial Fisheries for Eleven Coastal Migratory Pelagic Species
   
• Florida’s Commercial Fishery for Caribbean Spiny Lobster
   
• Florida’s Commercial Fishery for Stone Crab
   
• Spiny Lobster: Florida’s Commercial Fishery, Markets, and Global Landings and Trade

 Fishing Communities

• Snapshots of Human Communities and Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic
• Development of Social Indicators of Fishing Community Vulnerability and Resilience in the U.S. Southeast and Northeast Regions
   
• Identifying Communities Associated with the Fishing Industry in Florida Gulf Coast
  • Escambia - Levy Counties
  • Alachua - Pinellas Counties
  • Hillsborough - Collier Counties
     
• Identifying Communities Associated with the Fishing Industry in Louisiana
  • Ascension - Lafayette Parishes
  • Lafourche - St. Landry Parishes
  • St. Martin - Vermilion Summary
     
• Identifying Communities Associated with the Fishing Industry in Texas
   
• Identifying Communities Associated with the Fishing Industry in Alabama and Mississippi
   
• Potential Fishing Communities in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida: An effort in baseline profiling and mapping