This article examines the structure of job satisfaction among New England fishermen using three different measures. The various measures of job satisfaction were found to be complexly related to other sociocultural variables such as age, education, years of fishing experience, type of fishing, ethnicity, and home port. The policy implications of these findings are discussed as they relate to fishery development and management.
Consideration for the well-being of natural resource users is one regarded as an integral part of ecosystem-based policy strategies to conserve natural resources and maintain essential ecosystem services (Bowen and Riley 2003; UNEP 2006; Abunge et al. 2013; Daw et al. 2016). In the United States, National Standard 8 of the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996 requires that potential adverse socioeconomic impacts to communities resulting from the implementation of management strategies be explicitly considered and minimized (MSFCMA 2007). The past decade has seen increased effort by fishery social scientists to understand and operationalize human dimension factors influencing fishery policy and management, including individual and community well-being (
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