figure out how to define acceptable steam time to fishing grounds

[afreitag33]

In the first paper, we used an hour commute time from the center of each CDP to approximate average or acceptable access to fishing grounds. This was based on some local contacts and one journal reference, but we'd like to either confirm this or tweak it to be more accurate. To that end we will go sniffing around some additional places:

• talk to more fishers in Louisiana as part of the EJ meetings happening there (Suzana)
• Census commuter data for just the most coastal CDPs (Amy)
• ask Larry if he can come up with an estimate based on VMS data he's working with (Amy)

[suzanablake]

I did talk and asked about steam times and it depends. Given that we are mostly looking into federal fisheries data - those guys go for a week and sometimes more. Now shrimp vessels are mostly docked due to extremely low prices. People fishing in state waters, have small boats and only go for 1 day.