Climate and Fisheries Adaptation (CAFA) program Principal Investigator Hillary Smith and her team recently published a collection of oral histories titled “Stories of Women’s Roles and Experiences in the Gouldsboro, Maine Working Waterfront Community” in the “Maine Sound and Story” online archive. The oral histories were collected as part of the team’s CAFA project on “Gendered dimensions of climate change impacts, adaptive capacity, and resilience in Maine’s coastal fisheries.” The project aimed to increase the diversity of historical archives representing fishing communities by creating a new publicly available collection of women’s voices in the fishing sector, including those of young women and women of color. The collection represents workers throughout the food system, including in capture fisheries and aquaculture, and preharvest, harvest and postharvest processing, trade, and logistics. These oral histories will contribute to the NOAA Voices Archive and advance Dr. Smith’s research on current knowledge gaps in the relationship between gender and adaptive capacity in coastal fishing communities impacted by climate change.
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