Socioeconomic Lessons Learned from the Response to the Federally-Declared West Coast Groundfish Disaster

Autor:	Flaxen Conway, Wesley Shaw
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Government Economic growth Emergency management business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Environmental resource management Fishing Social Welfare Aquatic Science Payment Geography Fishing industry Groundfish business Socioeconomic status Nature and Landscape Conservation media_common
Zdroj:	Fisheries. 33:269-277
ISSN:	1548-8446 0363-2415
DOI:	10.1577/1548-8446-33.6.269
Popis:	Congress responded to the 2000 West Coast groundfish disaster by allocating $5 million in disaster relief for Oregon, Washington, and California. Each state designed and executed its own disaster response program to help impacted members of the fishing industry and coastal communities to cope with the downturn. While the federal goals for the funding were identical, each state created different relief programs. Oregon focused on helping individual members of the fishing community to access social services. Washington focused on economic development of coastal towns. California focused on payments to impacted individuals and cooperative fisheries research. While federal responses to fisheries disasters cost the government millions of dollars each year, they are rarely researched and poorly understood. The goal of this project was to document responses to the disaster (focusing on Oregon), explore useful comparisons, and extract possible lessons learned. Results indicate that people working in the ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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