UNBC Prof Takes Study Coast to Coast

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 03:45 AM

A University of Northern B.C. Prof has won a very prestigious award to study fisheries policies.

Dr. Caroline Butler, who is currently based in Prince Rupert, has received a "Fulbright" award which will allow her to compare fisheries policies on Canada and the U.S. by examining fishing policy on both coasts, and the effects those policies have on fishing communities.

She will conduct the east coast portion of her research in Boston in the spring of 2007.

Butler is very close to the fisheries issue as her husband is a commercial fisherman in Prince Rupert.

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Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 03:45 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Gofaster on July 18 2006 6:38 AM

You have got to be kidding!

Posted by: owl on July 18 2006 9:40 AM

Nope ..... such is the life in the PhD world. The pickin's are quite slim. ;-)

Actually it is not much different than studying forest policy in Oregon versus BC and the effect they are having on the forestry communities ... or manufacturing policies and the effect they have on manufacturing communities ... or mining policies .. or tourism policies ...

read part 3 on pages 166 to 171 ...

http://ocean.floridamarine.org/efh_coral/pdfs/ManagingFishProceedings.pdf

So, will the study land on a shelf? Most likely. But that is how research is conducted. Maybe we need a study on research funding policy and its effect on the research community.

Posted by: Palopu on July 21 2006 10:07 PM

La dee da.