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The interviews collected through the Local Fisheries Knowledge
Project will be available online through the LFK Database
and can be used as a resource by anyone. The information
students collect will be of interest to a range of users
and for a variety of purposes. To learn about the range
of topics students may choose to research, view the topics listed
in the Database.
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How will NOAA use the information collected?
Students and teachers, without guidance from NOAA, will
determine interview topics and questions, as long as it
is within the LFK Project framework. Depending on the quality
of the information collected, NOAA may be one of the potential
users of the information.
It is likely that some interviews
will be of more interest to NOAA scientists and managers
than others. Such interviews most
likely would include topics pertaining to the marine environment
and ecology, particularly historical information that could be
helpful for establishing baselines for habitat restoration or
rebuilding fish stocks. Additionally, NOAA Fisheries’ social
scientists will be interested in interviews that pertain to social
structures and cultural patterns involved in fishing.
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New England fisherman holding a cod.
1932. Photo by O.E. Sette, courtesy of NEFSC
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Creating Community Applications
Schools, working in partnership with community
members, will decide how they want to apply the information
locally. As with similar oral history projects aimed at
preserving the stories of their elders, students may decide
to compile the interviews into a book series with accompanying
photographs and artwork. Such projects may be of interest
to local historical societies and museums. Interviews pertaining
to historical information about species may be useable
by local scientists and natural resource managers to design
local research and restoration projects.
Other student projects may include writing content for
and designing informational materials about local
wildlife or historic sites, writing articles for local
media,
arranging art exhibits for local artists interviewed or
for the art created by students themselves during the interviews,
and
setting up community projects for water quality monitoring.
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Women remove parasitic
sores from redfish. Gloucester, MA. 1942. Photo by O.E.
Sette, courtesy of NEFSC.
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Collaboration between Jonesport/Beals High School and the Jonesport
Historical Society (JHS) resulted
in the award of a NOAA grant to
the JHS.
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