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Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery
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 s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8439535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34523080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01617-8 |
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author | Stoll, Joshua S. Oldach, Eliza J. Witkin, Taylor Reardon, Kathleen Love, David C. Pinto da Silva , Patricia |
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description | 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 abruptly adapt to the decline of locally-sourced herring in 2019 that came to be called the bait crisis. We found that adaptation strategies to the crisis were diverse, largely uncoordinated, and imperfectly aligned, but ultimately led to a system-level shift towards a more diverse and globalized bait supply. This shift was enabled by existing institutions and hastened an evolution in the bait system that was already underway, as opposed to leading to system transformation. We suggest that further attention to raceways may be useful in understanding how and, in particular, why marine resource users and coastal communities adapt in particular ways in the face of shocks and crises. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-021-01617-8. |
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spelling | pubmed-84395352021-09-15 Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery Stoll, Joshua S. Oldach, Eliza J. Witkin, Taylor Reardon, Kathleen Love, David C. Pinto da Silva , Patricia Ambio Research Article 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 abruptly adapt to the decline of locally-sourced herring in 2019 that came to be called the bait crisis. We found that adaptation strategies to the crisis were diverse, largely uncoordinated, and imperfectly aligned, but ultimately led to a system-level shift towards a more diverse and globalized bait supply. This shift was enabled by existing institutions and hastened an evolution in the bait system that was already underway, as opposed to leading to system transformation. We suggest that further attention to raceways may be useful in understanding how and, in particular, why marine resource users and coastal communities adapt in particular ways in the face of shocks and crises. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-021-01617-8. Springer Netherlands 2021-09-14 2022-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8439535/ /pubmed/34523080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01617-8 Text en © Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2021 |
spellingShingle | Research Article Stoll, Joshua S. Oldach, Eliza J. Witkin, Taylor Reardon, Kathleen Love, David C. Pinto da Silva , Patricia Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery |
title | Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery |
title_full | Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery |
title_fullStr | Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery |
title_full_unstemmed | Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery |
title_short | Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery |
title_sort | rapid adaptation to crisis events: insights from the bait crisis in the maine lobster fishery |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8439535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34523080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01617-8 |
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