A team of researchers at the University of Maine developed eight new socioeconomic indicators to holistically monitor the resilience of Maine's lobster industry. The indicators, backed by secondary data and publicly available information, aim to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the industry's well-being, encompassing aspects like coastal accessibility, operational condition, business investments, community composition, financial health, risk taking, personal spending, and physical and mental health. This new approach seeks to address the limitations of traditional biological monitoring by capturing the social and economic impacts on fishermen, their families, and the communities they rely on.
After two years of data collection, quantitative and qualitative analyses, meetings and stakeholder interviews, a team of researchers developed new socioeconomic indicators to holistically monitor the lobster industry's resilience. The eight socioeconomic indicators identified by the team include coastal accessibility, operational condition, business investments, community composition, financial health, risk taking, personal spending and physical and mental health.
After two years of data collection, quantitative and qualitative analyses, meetings and interviews with lobstermen and other stakeholders, a University of Maine-led team of researchers devised new indicators to holistically monitor the industry's resilience. These metrics have the potential to offer greater insight into the well-being of fishermen and their families, haulers, processors, restaurateurs, other businesses and the communities in which they all reside.
"These indicators define important socioeconomic components of the fishery that lobstermen have been describing for many years. Quantifying the indicators provides an opportunity for fishermen, local communities and managers to identify and quickly respond to changes in socioeconomic condition of the fleet," said Theresa Burnham, a research associate with the UMaine School of Marine Sciences.
The development of these indicators lays the foundation for enhanced monitoring of the state's lobster industry, but researchers are seeking more data to better utilize the indicators. While the coastal accessibility and operational condition indicators were deemed data rich, personal spending and physical and mental health were deemed data poor due to a lack of public, varied and no-cost data.
Theresa L.U. Burnham, Joelle Kilchenmann, Carla Guenther, Maggie O’Shea, Kathleen Reardon, Joshua S. Stoll.More than half of the risk for mental disorders can be attributed to environmental factors such as socioeconomic status, urbanicity, pollution, and climate. Scientists are trying to characterize the ...
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