Steven Jacob
HARC Fellow

Steve is an Associate Professor of Sociology at York College of Pennsylvania.  For over a decade he has studied fishing communities on the Gulf of Mexico.  Much of his work explores the relationship of natural resource dependence to well-being.  His work strives to determine the social and economic impacts of changes in the fishery and fishery regulations.  In addition he has also studied fishing communities impacted by natural and technological disasters.  Currently he is working with a group of social scientists to integrate human factors into biological models of ecosystems based fisheries management, determine the impact of cheap shrimp imports on Gulf communities, and exploring the impacts of proposed fishery allocation schemes on community well-being.  Steve is an appointed member of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council's (GMFMC) Socio-Economic Panel (SEP).  The work of the SEP is to advise the GMFMC on the social and economic impacts of proposed regulatory changes.  Steve’s work is applied and strives to offer practical solutions to management problems.  His recent research has been published in Marine Policy, Fisheries, Society and Natural Resources, and Human Organization.