New potential entrants to the seaweed industry should evaluate opportunities and risks associated with different product-markets, and address strategies for market entry. Different potential products, alternative channels of distribution, alternative roles within those channels of distribution, and promotion and pricing issues should be addressed in light of the risks and potential returns, and in light of the lifestyles, goals and objectives of the parties involved. The method, logic and results of a study designed to evaluate opportunities for the residents of St lawrence Island, Bering Sea, are presented.

This study assessed the possibility of using drift and subtidal seaweeds from St Lawrence Island, Alaska (lat. 63°N) for sale by the native population after simple processing. Over 125 km of coastline were surveyed for distribution of both drift and subtidal seaweeds. Drift seaweed wet weight densities ranged from 0.2 to over 9 kg m -2, with an average of over 4 t km-1 in the areas sampled. Attached, benthic seaweed densities ranged from 0.15 to 0.32 kg m-2. Thirty and 35% of the biomass was composed of Agarum cribrosum and species of Laminaria, respectively, both as drift and as benthic seaweed. Data from tagged Laminaria indicated that growth rates were relatively slow for most of the year. The drift seaweed resource on the coasts south and west of the city of Gambell appeared to have good potential for a small-scale commercial harvest.

ONE OF THE BIGGEST BUMPS on that famous "level playing field" that free traders insist on establishing between the United States and Canada is labelled "trade unionism." At roughly 36 per cent of the organizable work force, the organized share of the Canadian workforce is now triple the American rate. How did the bump appear? Will it last? How could it be flattened? Will it be? Until World War n, unionization rates in Canada consistently lagged behind those in the United States. After World War n, unprecedented prosperity and a belated legislative catch-up encouraged Canadian union growth until the mid 1950s. Then, in both countries, union strength began to fall. While legislative and judicial hostility played a role, especially in the United States, the biggest factor was a seeming inability to interest office workers, women and technicians in the robustly masculine values of the blue-collar unionism. It was easier to raid than to organize. In both countries the phenomenon encouraged the merger of central labour bodies-the AFL-CIO in 19SS and the TLC-CCL in 19S6, forming the Canadian Labour Congress. In turn, this led to a renewed commitment to political action-electing Jack Kennedy and the Democrats in 1960 and creating the New Democratic Party at Ottawa in 1961 out of the old CCF. From the early 1960s, the unionization curves diverge. While American unions have withered in relative and finally in absolute terms since the 1950s, union strength in Canada leaped upward in the 1960s and early 1970s, and the growth

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