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The impacts of climate change are invariably seen on agriculture, aquatic ecosystem, energy, and economics. The fishery sector on which livelihood of world's 36 million fishers depends is also not untouched but a little attention has been given to study the vulnerability of fisherfolk population to climate change programs. Therefore, the present study was envisaged to assess the vulnerability of fishers to the climate change in Junagadh district of Gujarat, India. The vulnerability of 1500 fisher household was assessed using PARS (parameter, attribute, resilient indicator, score) methodology, in four coastal villages namely Old light house, Bhidiya, Navabunder and Rajpara in Junagadh district. Five parameters viz., fishery, economy, social, environmental and development drivers have been assessed as indicators of sensitivity, exposure and adaptive capacity. 'Economy' was found to be the most impacted parameter consequent to climate change followed by the 'social' and 'environmental' parameters. The results obtained reflect low adaptive capacity of fishers that could be attributed to lack of awareness, preparation, and mitigation option. Thus, the finding of the study could be used as a vital input while developing the policy and suitable action plan to combat the impacts of climate change minimizing the risk to fisheries sector.

Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

“…This example reflects the reality of many poor, informal settlement dwellers in coastal areas around the world (medium confidence). Other human system barriers to effective adaptation action include insufficient climate change knowledge, inappropriate coping strategies, high dependency upon natural resources, level of exposure to hazards and weak community networks (Islam et al 2013;Nanlohy et al 2015;Lohmann, 2016;Koya et al 2017;Senapati and Gupta, 2017;Cumiskey et al 2018).…”

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“…In particular traditional fishermen are small-scale fishermen (Al-Marshudi and Kotagama, 2006; Andrew and Evans, 2009; Lopes and Begossi, 2011; Gebremedhin et al, 2013) or artisanal fisheries (Mozumder, et.al., 2018) characterized as poor and marginalized (Asiedu, et al, 2013), but these small-scale fisheries support the livelihoods and wellbeing of more than 500 million people worldwide and as an important source of income in developing countries where millions of poor people live near the coast and nearly 97% of world's fishermen are located (Pomeroy and Andrew, 2011;Mauthe et al, 2013) of the 36 million fishermen in the world (Mohammed, et al, 2017) In Indonesia, the fishing population is dominated by small-scale fishermen (Susanto et.al., 2017), 95% of traditional fishermen (Sudarmo et al, 2015). This study uses data and information on the potential, production, and level of utilization of pelagic fish resources by including fish prices and costs.…”

Geospatial and Temporal Studies on Climatic Parameters and Their Impact on Inland Fish Production: A Case Study

“…The agricultural sector, including fisheries, has received maximum attention from climate modelers due to its high dependence on several climatic variables like air temperature, salinity, rainfall, pH, acidification rate, sea surface temperature, etc. (Meghwal et al, 2018;Das et al, 2016;Dash et al, 2007;Dubey et al, 2017;Koya et al, 2017). Fisheries dependence, especially in developing countries, shows an important role in debates about its adaptation towards impacts of climate change (Allison et al, 2009;Lal et al, 2018;Lehodey et al, 2003).…”