Adaptive comanagement to achieve climate‐ready fisheries

Abstract

Climate-related impacts to marine ecosystems threaten the biological, social, and economic resilience of the U.S. fishing industry. Changes in ocean conditions and variability in fisheries productivity have stimulated an effort to integrate climate information into fisheries science and management processes to inform more responsive decision-making. However, institutional, capacity, and budget constraints within U.S. federal and state fisheries management agencies may hinder the potential to deliver climate-ready strategies for many fisheries. We examine whether adaptive comanagement as a governance approach can enhance capacity and advance climate-ready fisheries objectives. Adaptive comanagement may improve the quality of science and decision-making needed to prepare for and respond to impacts of climate change in fisheries by taking advantage of skills, technology, and funding often not optimally utilized under the current governance system. We focus on the potential to improve information flows as a means to achieve climate-ready fisheries via adaptive comanagement, but suggest that a greater level of partnership in the management process may be possible in the future after a period of formal experimentation and learning.

A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries

“…Moreover, using historical species distribution data to designate static or seasonal closures puts these areas at the risk of losing ecological relevance as species’ distributions shift with a changing climate ( 38 ). Anomalous ocean conditions place stress on static management approaches and are likely to become more frequent in the future ( 39 ), highlighting the need for climate-ready fisheries management ( 40 ). Dynamic ocean management tools can be used to test the efficacy of existing closures under increasing climate variability or long-term change.…”

Habitat compression and ecosystem shifts as potential links between marine heatwave and record whale entanglements

“…These factors involve the tracking of whale entanglements, whale concentrations, ocean and forage conditions, and fishing dynamics (gear concentrations, fishing activity and Dungeness crab market value, and domoic acid delays at the start of the fishing season; http://www.opc.ca.gov/risk-assessment-and-mitigationprogram-ramp/). Although climate change is contributing to uncertainty surrounding the impacts of MHWs on ecosystem resilience, preparing climate-ready fishery solutions that involve the streamlining of disparate biophysical and socio-economic data and models is a priority for sustainable fisheries management 14,20,22 . The success of whale-entanglement working groups such as the RAMP will depend on their cooperation and collaborative interdisciplinary effort.…”

“…In particular, whale entanglements in fishing gear have been increasing globally [12][13][14] , often at a rate greater than that of population recoveries from past exploitation, so there is a clear and immediate need to better understand how climate extremes are impacting habitat used by whales and fisheries [15][16][17][18] . Moreover, there is a growing need to improve the use and utility of ecosystem scientific advice relevant to marine resource management when confronted by novel ecosystem and fishery system states such as those that emerged in recent MHW events [19][20][21][22] .…”

Gene Expression Patterns of Red Sea Urchins (Mesocentrotus Franciscanus) Exposed to Different Combinations of Temperature and pCO2 During Early Development

“…This delay in noticeable population declines may cause substantial alterations to coastal macroalgae ecosystems and nancial losses to the shing industry. Studies such as the one presented here are vital for developing proactive and adaptive management strategies to ensure climate-ready sheries [149,150].…”