Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery.

ABSTRACT: Climate change, overfishing, and other anthropogenic drivers are forcing marine resource users and decision makers to adapt-often rapidly. In this article we introduce the concept of pathways to rapid adaptation to crisis events to bring attention to the double-edged role that institutions play in simultaneously enabling and constraining swift responses to emerging crises. To develop this concept, we draw on empirical evidence from a case study of the iconic Maine lobster (Homarus americanus) industry. In the Gulf of Maine, the availability of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) stock, a key source of bait in the Maine lobster industry, declined sharply. We investigate the patterns of bait use in the fishery over an 18-year period (2002-2019) and how the lobster industry was able to abruptl

SUBMITTER: Stoll JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8439535 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature