Estimated annual economic impacts from harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald M. Anderson ◽  
Porter Hoagland ◽  
Yoshi Kaoru ◽  
Alan W. White
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Marine harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States: History, current status and future trends

Harmful Algae ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 101975
Author(s):  
Donald M. Anderson ◽  
Elizabeth Fensin ◽  
Christopher J. Gobler ◽  
Alicia E. Hoeglund ◽  
Katherine A. Hubbard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
United States History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
States History

scholarly journals Harmful algal blooms and eutrophication: Examining linkages from selected coastal regions of the United States

Harmful Algae ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald M. Anderson ◽  
Joann M. Burkholder ◽  
William P. Cochlan ◽  
Patricia M. Glibert ◽  
Christopher J. Gobler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coastal Regions

scholarly journals The rise in climate change-induced federal fishery disasters in the United States

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11186
Author(s):  
Lyall Bellquist ◽  
Vienna Saccomanno ◽  
Brice X. Semmens ◽  
Mary Gleason ◽  
Jono Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
Societal Benefit ◽  
Disaster Assistance ◽  
Environmental Events ◽  
The Impact

Commercial, recreational, and indigenous fisheries are critical to coastal economies and communities in the United States. For over three decades, the federal government has formally recognized the impact of fishery disasters via federal declarations. Despite these impacts, national syntheses of the dynamics, impacts, and causes of fishery disasters are lacking. We developed a nationwide Federal Fishery Disaster database using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fishery disaster declarations and fishery revenue data. From 1989-2020, there were 71 federally approved fishery disasters (eleven are pending), which spanned every federal fisheries management region and coastal state in the country. To date, we estimate fishery disasters resulted in $2B (2019 USD) in Congressional allocations, and an additional, conservative estimate of $3.2B (2019 USD) in direct revenue loss. Despite this scale of impact, the disaster assistance process is largely ad hoc and lacks sufficient detail to properly assess allocation fairness and benefit. Nonetheless, fishery disasters increased in frequency over time, and the causes of disasters included a broad range of anthropogenic and environmental factors, with a recent shift to disasters now almost exclusively caused by extreme environmental events (e.g., marine heatwaves, hurricanes, and harmful algal blooms). Nationwide, 84.5% of fishery disasters were either partially or entirely attributed to extreme environmental events. As climate change drives higher rates of such extreme events, and as natural disaster assistance requests reach an all-time high, the federal system for fisheries disaster declaration and mitigation must evolve in order to effectively protect both fisheries sustainability and societal benefit.

scholarly journals Workshop on the socio-economic effects of marine and fresh water harmful algal blooms in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Suddleson ◽  
Porter Hoagland
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ◽  
Ocean Science ◽  
National Office ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluations

The US National Office for Harmful Algal Blooms at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) held a virtual workshop comprising four sessions between July 27 and August 5, 2020. This report summarizes the workshop proceedings and presents recommendations developed by participants during the discussion. The recommendations advance an assessment framework and a national research agenda that will lead to comprehensive evaluations of the socio-economic effects of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in fresh water (primarily the Great Lakes) and marine waters of the United States.

scholarly journals Agricultural Conservation Practices and Aquatic Ecological Responses

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 1687
Author(s):  
Richard E. Lizotte ◽  
Peter C. Smiley ◽  
Robert B. Gillespie ◽  
Scott S. Knight
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Conservation Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Runoff ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ecosystem Structure ◽  
Ecological Responses ◽  
And Function

Conservation agriculture practices (CAs) have been internationally promoted and used for decades to enhance soil health and mitigate soil loss. An additional benefit of CAs has been mitigation of agricultural runoff impacts on aquatic ecosystems. Countries across the globe have agricultural agencies that provide programs for farmers to implement a variety of CAs. Increasingly there is a need to demonstrate that CAs can provide ecological improvements in aquatic ecosystems. Growing global concerns of lost habitat, biodiversity, and ecosystem services, increased eutrophication and associated harmful algal blooms are expected to intensify with increasing global populations and changing climate. We conducted a literature review identifying 88 studies linking CAs to aquatic ecological responses since 2000. Most studies were conducted in North America (78%), primarily the United States (73%), within the framework of the USDA Conservation Effects Assessment Project. Identified studies most frequently documented macroinvertebrate (31%), fish (28%), and algal (20%) responses to riparian (29%), wetland (18%), or combinations (32%) of CAs and/or responses to eutrophication (27%) and pesticide contamination (23%). Notable research gaps include better understanding of biogeochemistry with CAs, quantitative links between varying CAs and ecological responses, and linkages of CAs with aquatic ecosystem structure and function.

scholarly journals Inequality in the Economic Impacts from Climate Shocks in Fisheries: The Case of Harmful Algal Blooms

2020 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 106691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunny L. Jardine ◽  
Mary C. Fisher ◽  
Stephanie K. Moore ◽  
Jameal F. Samhouri
Keyword(s):  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Climate Shocks
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