Researchers were in Alaska last week gathering information on salmon gillnetters as part of a study on sleep deprivation. KFSK's Angela Denning talked with researcher Julie Sorensen about what she's asking fishermen about their sleep — and why it matters.
Researchers from New York were in Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau and Cordova last week gathering information on salmon gillnetters as part of a study on sleep deprivation.
Speaking with KFSK’s Angela Denning while she was in Petersburg, Sorensen said there’s a lot of research on shift workers like truckers, but nearly nothing on fishermen.
I think what we’re learning through the research is that the fisheries are really fluid. So if somebody might fish for salmon, be a salmon gillnetter but then switch to another fishery. And so it’s really hard to kind of say, you know, that person just does that. So that’s one of the things we’re learning in the research.Julie Sorensen:
Some of the additional data we’re collecting are things like BMI, vision, hearing, glucose levels, cardiac health, respiratory health — those are all collected as part of the health assessment.
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