Individual is a male in his mid seventies at the time of the interview. He was born in Sweden , and began fishing at the age of 14 for herring, mackerel, cod, pollock, and haddock around the early 1940's in Sweden. In the mid 1950's he moved to the United States, a move he attributes to seeing too many Westerns (and hearing that America was a place of freedom, and that he wanted to escape regulations in Sweden). Upon arriving he was immediately offered a position on a fishing boat through a family friend and moved down to Cape May.

Individual was in his early 50s at the time of the interview. He has fished most of his life out of Cape May, New Jersey where his father was a fisherman before him (his family has been in fishing for several generations). He began as a small boat inshore fisherman, but later became a large vessel pelagic (mackerel and squid primarily) seine fisherman.

Individual was a 45 year old male (at the time of the interview), first-generation fisherman fishing out of Cape May, New Jersey. He has been in a number of different fisheries including mixed trawl, squid dragging and, more recently and most intensely, scallops.

At the time of the interview the individual was in his early 60s and working as a commercial fisher fishing out of Barnegat Light, New Jersey. He started fishing before the age of 10, and was mating by 14. He has been an owner/operator since the early 1970's. For 10 years (1989-1990) years he moved to Florida but continued coming back and forth and fish New Jersey waters because some species had declined (like codfish). He began in a mixed gill net fishery, fishing primarily blues, weakfish, and stripers. Started monk fishing around 1990 and has recently started fishing corakers.

Individual was a 46 year old (at the time of the interview) male fishing out of Barnegat Light, New Jersey. He started off with his father started as a charter captain, then moved into the tilefish fishery, then on into pelagic longlining (swordfish and tuna). More recently he moved into the scallop fishery.

At the time of the interview was a 41 year old commercial fisher fishing out of Barnegat Light, New Jersey. (where his father is a charter fisherman). He is primarily a pelagic and bottom long-liner but has gill-netted and scalloped. In the 90's was an owner/operator, but is now is the owner of two vessels (and sometimes an operator). One of these vessels is a long-liner and the other is a day scalloper.

At the time of the interview the individual was a 65 year old male semi-retired individual fishing out of Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Previously he has been engaged in a number of different fisheries, surf and hard clams, cod, mixed-species gill nets, scallops and mixed-species dragger fishing. Interview provides a fair amount of detail about the clam fishery in the 1950's and 1960's. Throughout the 1990's he has been engaged in the relay clam fishery, and recently has gotten back into fishing after his son was injured (while fishing).

At the time of the interview individual was a 42 year old owner/operator fishing out of Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Respondent did not come from a fishing family but began fishing at a young age (10) and has been an inshore, multi-species gill-netter fishing out of Point Pleasant for his entire professional career. He has also done some long-lining and other types of fishing when not gill netting. A friend, and former commercial fisherman of the respondent also participated in the interview. The respondent¿s wife participated in the second half of the interview.

This interview ended up being with two individuals, brothers that have fished together for some time. Individuals were both in their mid to late 50s at the time of the interview and were commercial fishermen fishing for scallop out of Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Their father was a party boat captain and both gained their first experience serving as crew on that party boat. They started off fishing on their own for lobster in the 1970's but very quickly turned to scallops. Interview contains detailed information on the evolution of the scallop fishery and regulatory change thereof.

At the time of the interview the individual was a 58 year old male commercial fisher fishing out of Cape May, New Jersey. He comes from a family of fisherman originally from Norway. He has participated in the dragger fishery (mixed species) and the scallop fishery.