Climate change alters fish community size‐structure, requiring adaptive policy targets

Abstract

help to identify what may be achievable policy targets for demersal fish communities experiencing climate change. While fisheries modelling has grown as a science, climate change modelling is seldom used specifically to address policy aims. Studies such as this one can, however, enable a more sustainable exploitation of marine food resources under changes unmanageable by fisheries control. Indeed, such studies can be used to aid resilient policy target setting by taking into account climate-driven effects on fish community size-structure. K E Y W O R D Sclimate change, fisheries, indicator, ocean acidification, policy, size-spectrumThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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