Caribbean Fisherman Farmers: A Social Impact Assessment of Smithsonian King Crab Mariculture

• Main Author: Stoffle, Richard W.
• Other Authors: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
• Language: en_US
• Published: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan 1986
• Subjects: Caribbean; Fisheries; Social Impact Assessment; Antigua; Dominican Republic; Ecosystem Management
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293023

This is an assessment of the social and cultural factors that potentially will influence the transfer of Caribbean King Crab or Mithrax mariculture as it has been developed in two West Indian project sites. The projects are located in Nonsuch Bay, Antigua, and Buen Hombre,Dominican Republic. The projects derive from an original proposal entitled "A New Mariculture Project for the Lesser Antilles," which was submitted by the Smithsonian Institution, Marine Systems Laboratory (MSL), to the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). That project was funded as AID Project No. 598 -065. This anthropological and sociological assessment was contracted by the Smithsonian Institution as specified in P.O. No. ST5080090000 on July 10, 1985.