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Table 22.  Additional questions to be asked of subsistence and traditional users
  • Besides finfish, what other marine resources  (e.g., shellfish, seaweed, kelp) do you harvest or another member of your household catch or gather?
  • How often do you eat marine resources (including finfish, shellfish, squid, seaweed or kelp) that you or another member of your household catch or gather?
  • Does your household ever give finfish, shellfish, or other marine resources (such as seaweed or kelp, octopus or squid) that it harvested to members of other households?
    • If so, to whom do you give them (e.g., affinal relatives, consanguineal relatives, fictive kin, friends, neighbors, elderly, infirm, unemployed)?
  • To what extent would you characterize your household's fishing and gathering of marine resources as recreation or subsistence?
  • Have you ever fished or gathered marine resources from a location with a posted health advisory or that you suspected to be polluted?
    • If so, why did you fish there?
  • Approximately what percent of all the food (domestic meat and wild game, fish and shellfish, fowl, garden vegetables or other plants including domestic or wild fruits, nuts, berries, mushrooms, etc.), that is eaten by members of your household comes from resources harvested by your own household?
  • What is the significance of the resource harvested to your cultural/spiritual life?
  • What is the significance of your methods/styles of fishing to your cultural/spiritual life?
  • To what extent and in what way are the distribution network or the specific resources distributed defined by cultural/religious tenets or traditions?
  • To what extent are resources and profits communal versus individual?

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