Kaplan invited to work with the National Marine Fisheries Service

Ilene M. Kaplan, professor of sociology, has been invited to work with the National Marine Fisheries Service to study tradition and changing marine policy in the Honolulu Seafood Auction. She will focus on changes in marketing practices in the South Pacific and the impact of technology on auction procedures. She also was asked to participate in a Fishing Communities Workshop in April in Washington, D.C., to advise staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on the development of new marine policies; and on a Washington, D.C., task force on Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management. She published an invited article on safety at sea that was part of a government series on safety.