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Study to analyze historical data from the 1980s and to address some of the fundamental issues regarding the stability of incomes in the Atlantic fishery. The study discusses the nature of income instability; reviews past studies of, and proposals for, income stabilization in the fishery; discusses the methodology used, including the use of longitudinal population files; analyses the income variability of the longitudinal population by sector and income class, and compares income variability in the fishery with that in other sectors of the economy, including the income profiles of self-employed fishermen and plantworkers; and provides some policy options to address income variability in the Atlantic fishery while making distinctions between options for self-employed fishermen and for fish processing employees.