About the Project

Estuaries provide critical habitat for shrimp at multiple life-stages. Because shrimp have a short life cycle, growing from larval stage to adult over the course of a year, their populations are very sensitive to changes in environmental conditions in the estuary. This project helped build a better understanding of how shrimp populations are responding to changing climate conditions, weather events, and habitat modifications at various stages of their life cycle. This information is critical to the management of the multi-million-dollar shrimping industry.

About this Resource

Project Lead Robert Dunn (North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve) gives an introduction to "Incorporating Environmental Variability into Ecosystem-Based Management for Penaeid Shrimp in the Southeast US," a collaborative research project funded in 2021 by the NERRS Science Collaborative. The presentation was given at a virtual project workshop in January 2022.