A climate-informed, ecosystem approach to fisheries management

Fisheries management approaches as platforms for climate change adaptation: Comparing theory and practice in Australian fisheries

“…Because management approaches delineate the breadth of values and concerns included in the scope of management arrangements and the array of actors engaged in decision-making, they exert a determining influence on the capability of marine fisheries management arrangements to enhance adaptive capacity and build resilience [24]. In particular, management approaches can create leverage in implementing policy options and activities to enable adaptation in marine fisheries [8].…”

“…There is a considerable volume of literature describing the need to enhance resilience and build adaptive capacity in marine fisheries [10,[19][20][21], and associated management and governance attributes required in the face of climate change [22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. In this paper, resilience refers to the "amount of change a system can undergo and still retain the same function and structure while maintaining options to develop" [29]; and, adaptive capacity denotes "…the preconditions necessary to enable adaptation, including social and physical elements, and the ability to mobilise these elements" [30].…”

Comparing Apples to Oranges: Common Trends and Thresholds in Anthropogenic and Environmental Pressures across Multiple Marine Ecosystems

“…There have been major breakthroughs in understanding how long-term climatic events and climate change will impact marine species. Many marine communities are predicted to have continued impact by changes in mean SST and are predicted to respond in numerous ways from range shifts (Pinsky and Fogarty, 2012;Gattuso et al, 2015;Heenan et al, 2015) to phenological shifts (Parmesan, 2006;Brown et al, 2016). While the outcomes of climate change are predicted to be overwhelmingly negative, there may be some economic and social benefits for well-managed fisheries in warming scenarios (Barange et al, 2014).…”

“…Systems approaches to management, including EBM, can contribute to successful resilience of ecosystems by improving the ability to detect and react to ecological feedbacks (Hughes et al, 2005). Climate thresholds presented in this study can be incorporated into local resource and ocean management and used to develop rules around total harvests of specific species based on known or predicted distributional shifts (Link et al, 2011b;Pinsky et al, 2013;Heenan et al, 2015).…”

Food from the Sulawesi Sea, the need for integrated sea use planning

“…The impacts of the fisheries activities, in relation the used fishing gear, and associated fishing pressures can however, affect both the marine community composition, and ecologically important species. The ecosystem approach (Heenan et al 2015, Skern-Mauritzen et al 2015 might offer a solution to understand these relationships and incorporate them into management's plans to preserve critical coastal habitats, and reduce disturbance from human activities and formulate sustainable fishing pressure levels.…”