Unalaska Ethnographic Study and Impact Analysis

This report examines Unalaska-Dutch Harbor in relation to prospective offshore oil and gas lease sale activities in the early 1980s. The study was conducted during an initial period of growth in the commercial fishing sector, and prediction of significant fisheries-specific economic expansion and demographic change. The report provides: 1) a baseline ethnographic description of Unalaska, and 2) a series of scenarios for potential groundfish and oil-related development.