Onshore benefits from fishing: Tracking value from the northern shrimp fishery to communities in Newfoundland and Labrador

摘要: Abstract Most fisheries assessments focus on biological and ecological conditions, fishery impacts performance. Economic social conditions outcomes, however, are rarely explicitly tracked or evaluated. Using data from the Canadian northern shrimp inshore fleet, employment statistics, Newfoundland Labrador municipal budgets, this paper examines links between harvesting post-harvesting economic activities infrastructure services within adjacent onshore communities. The broad geographic distribution of home ports landing destinations resulted in extensive ripple effects areas such as food retail, shipyard maintenance fuel services, which amounted to almost $9,000,000 expenditures distributed among 15 2014. Additionally, because tax payments processing plants impact budgets findings show that community-level benefits can be measured, with implication management objectives, supporting communities, also achievable measurable. While a recent decline stark for two decades substantial contributions were made possible policy decisions at both provincial federal level developed support fishing