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In 2005, the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) compiled baseline socioeconomic information about 136 Alaska communities most involved in commercial fisheries to produce the first version of the Community Profiles for North Pacific Fisheries - Alaska.
In 2010 and 2011, AFSC updated the Community Profiles using a modified community selection methodology to ensure that communities with significant reliance on commercial, recreational, and subsistence fishing were included. A NOAA Technical Memorandum, Improving Community Profiles for the North Pacific Fisheries, documents this process for updating the Community Profiles.
A total of 192 communities were profiled. The updated profiles, published as NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-259 (12 volumes), add new information to better contextualize communities' reliance on fishing. Introductory materials discuss purpose and methods, and provide an overview of the profiled communities in the larger context of the state of Alaska and North Pacific fisheries. Community profiles provide additional information on:
+ Aleutian and Pribilof Islands
+ Anchorage/Matanuska-Sustina
+ Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula
+ Interior Alaska
+ Kenai Peninsula and Cook Inlet
+ Kodiak Island Archipelago
+ Kuskokwim River Mouth
+ Northern Alaska
+ Norton Sound and Bering Strait
+ Prince William Sound
+ Southeast Alaska