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The authors of this research brief conducted a series of qualitative interviews with people in the Frenchman Bay watershed in Maine. Based on the interviews, they identified emergent themes regarding place attachments to Frenchman Bay and sense of place. Scale was identified as an umbrella concept encompassing the other themes, including perceived environmental and community risks and drawbacks; aesthetic, historical, and recreation-based place attachments; and concerns intersecting with adjacent marine tensions such as state licensing processes and the shifting of traditional working waterfronts to tourism-based economies. The study highlights several implications for aquaculture policy in Maine.
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Environmental journalists, as gatekeepers, often become arbiters of risk and benefit information. This study explores how their routine news value judgments may influence reporting on marine aquaculture, a growing domestic industry with complex social and ecological impacts. We interviewed New England newspaper journalists using Q methodology, a qualitative dominant mixed-method approach to study shared subjectivity in small samples. Results revealed four distinct reporting perspectives—“state structuralist,” “neighborhood preservationist,” “industrial futurist,” and “local proceduralist”—stemming from the news value and objectivity routines journalists used in news selection. Findings suggest implications for public understanding of, and positionality toward, natural resource use and development.more » « less
