Emily Farr
Emily’s work aims to build resilience in fishing communities and ecosystems in the Gulf of Maine through collaborative network building, participatory research, and advancing fisheries co-management. Much of this work is focused on intertidal and sea run fisheries, including shellfish and river herring, through direct partnerships with communities to address the challenges they face.
Before joining Manomet, Emily worked for the NOAA Fisheries Office of Habitat Conservation, where she collaborated with partners to integrate climate and ecosystem information into fisheries management. Previously, she worked with Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries researching fishery diversification. She has milked goats in Vermont, worked on seaweed and shellfish aquaculture research in Connecticut, and written about food policy for Edible magazine. Emily received a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment, and a Master in food systems from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy.
In her free time, she enjoys ceramics, sewing and dyeing clothes, biking, gardening, and spending as much time on or in the water as possible.