Northern shrimp
Project overview
This project explores the Gulf of Maine (GOM) northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) fishery, which has been under a moratorium since 2014. Historically, this nearshore fishery has served as an important source of winter income in Maine, providing an alternative to the less safe offshore winter fisheries. This fishery is an excellent setting to study how resource management decisions impact resource users and how resource users make choices. The overall objective of this interdisciplinary project is to develop a northern shrimp fishery that is ecologically and economically viable in a changing marine environmental. My research on this project focuses on: (1) cross-fishery connections between the open access northern shrimp fishery and other related fisheries and (2) management strategies that will adapt to environmental and economic changes.
This work is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under Saltonstall-Kennedy grant program award #NA16NMF4270245 and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under Hatch project #ME021704.
Cross-fishery connections
Ongoing research:
- Dynamic discrete choice model investigating factors influencing participation decision of fishers in the northern shrimp fishery. Special attention is given to conditions in related fisheries (e.g., the Maine lobster fishery).
- Dynamic model exploring connections in fishing outcomes in related fisheries (e.g., Maine lobster and federal groundfish fisheries) on the northern shrimp fishery (e.g., ex-vessel price and aggregate participation).(with Andrew Crawley)
Adaptive management strategies
Ongoing research:
- Bioeconomic simulation model exploring possible impacts from alternative management strategies given projected changes in the abundance and distribution of shrimp. (with Ashley Charleson)
Graduate student miscellany
Fieldwork photos by Ashley Charleson (2018), MS Marine Policy and MS Marine Biology (3rd-year student)
