Professors William Horrace and Kurt Schnier set out to Alaska to interview Bering Sea crab fisherman and gain perspective on the fishery.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
2/11/08. Leaving Syracuse
Hello, this is Bill Horrace and I have just left Syracuse NY and am off to San Francisco California. Tomorrow morning, I begin my NSF funded Alaskan adventure to study Bering Sea Crab Fisheries. Stay tuned for news, weather, photos and my personal experiences. Stay warm.
The purpose of this trip to Alaska is to improve our understanding of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab fishery. Professor Kurt Schnier and I will be “hanging out” at the docks in Dutch Harbor and talking to captains and crew to understand vessel cost structure and their personal attitudes toward risk. The exploits of these vessels and crew have been recently popularized in the Discovery Channel show “The Deadliest Catch.” The ultimate goals of the project are to understand how recent changes in US fisheries policy have changed occupational risk in the crab fishery and to calculate the value of a human life based on a captain’s decision to “put to sea” in bad weather. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation. Preliminary results of this research can be found at my web page in the menu bar to the left.
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