Fig 1.
Coastal states (N = 23) included in the State Marine Aquaculture Policy Dashboard.
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Fig 2.
Homepage for the State Marine Aquaculture Policy Dashboard.
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Fig 3.
Example of filtering data by multiple policy attributes.
The map shows the five states (Alaska, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, and Connecticut) that have aquaculture siting tools, comprehensive aquaculture legislation with mariculture specific provisions, and right-to-farm statutes. This Dashboard is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/.
Fig 4.
Composite key visualization for industry tools and resources.
A dark blue color indicates a state has a lower composite score, and dark green indicates a higher score. This Dashboard is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/.
Fig 5.
Example of visualization for specific policy groupings.
The figure shows states that do not have climate change policies for their mariculture industries but do have aquaculture and mariculture Best Management Practices (BMPs). This Dashboard is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/.
Fig 6.
Example of visualization for state-specific policy details.
The figure shows the underlying data for Alabama’s legislative and regulatory attributes.
Fig 7.
Frequency of mariculture policy attributes across the 23 coastal states.
The attributes for ‘agency lead: permitting’, ‘agency lead: leasing’, and ‘maximum lease term’ are excluded as they do not consist of binary data.