The project case study in Detroit, Michigan used focus group discussions to understand the experiences of urban shore fishers. The case study included perspectives of fishers across racial and ethnic groups and captured the benefits different fishers derive from the Detroit River and the barriers that restrict their access to those benefits.
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With semi-structured interviews of 49 urban fishers intercepted while plying the banks of the Niagara River, this case study investigates two research questions about perceptions of risk, benefit, and value. The cohort of interviewees are of all adult ages, several ethnicities and cultures, and largely men with a handful of women fishers. All are currently Buffalo residents. A follow up focus group of seven Karen (a Burmese diaspora ethnicity) fishers and local fish consumers investigated emergent findings about unusual fishing and fish consumption practices in that community.
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