Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries and Aquaculture of the United States

Peterson, Jay; Griffis, Roger; Zador, Stephani G.; Sigler, Michael F.; Joyce, John; Hunsicker, Mary E.; Bograd, Steven J.; Crozier, Lisa G.; McClatchie, Sam; Morris, James A.; Peterson, William T.; Price, Carol Seals; Woodworth‐Jefcoats, Phoebe A.; Karnauskas, Mandy; Muñ̃oz, Roldan C.; Schueller, Amy M.; Craig, J. Kevin; Bacheler, Nathan M.; Burton, Michael L.; Gore, Karla; Kellison, Todd; Hare, Jonathan A.; Friedland, Kevin D.; Miller, Timothy J.

doi:10.1002/9781119154051.ch8

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“…In the U.S. Northeast, NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), Greater Atlantic Regional Office (GARFO), and Chesapeake Bay Office (CBO) jointly developed the Northeast Regional Action Plan (NERAP) [8], which outlines research priorities to address the objectives of the national strategy. Since the publication of the NERAP in 2016, the NEFSC, GARFO, and CBO have made substantial progress on addressing the action plan [9]. However, there are still many actions needed to better inform fisheries and protected species management with relevant climate-based information.…”

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NOAA fisheries research geared towards climate-ready living marine resource management in the northeast United States

Saba,

Borggaard,

Caracappa

et al. 2023

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Climate change can alter marine ecosystems through changes in ocean temperature, acidification, circulation, and productivity. Over the last decade, the United States northeast continental shelf (U.S. NES) has warmed faster than any other marine ecosystem in the country and is among the fastest warming regions of the global ocean. Many living marine resources in the U.S. NES ranging from recreational and commercial fish stocks to protected species have shifted their distribution in response to ocean warming. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) is responsible for the assessment, protection, and sustainable use of the nation’s living marine resources. In the U.S. NES, NOAA Fisheries has made substantial progress on climate research related to fish, fisheries, and protected species. However, more research is needed to help inform tactical management decisions with the goal of climate-ready living marine resource management. This is a major challenge because the observed physical and biological changes are unprecedented, and the majority of marine species assessments and management decisions do not utilize environmental data. Here we review the research accomplishments and key needs for NOAA Fisheries in the U.S. NES in the context of climate change and living marine resource management. Key research needs and products are: 1) Infrastructure with continued and enhanced ocean surveys that includes cooperative research with the fishing industry and other NOAA line offices and partners; 2) Tracking and projecting change, and understanding mechanisms including state of the ecosystem reporting, improved regional ocean and ecosystem hindcasts, forecasts, and projections, and continued process-based laboratory and field studies, 3) climate-informed management, including stock assessments that account for climate where possible, translation of changing species distributions into spatial management, climate vulnerability assessment and scenario planning, ecosystem-based management, management strategy evaluations, and increased multidisciplinary science that includes economic and social indicators.

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NOAA fisheries research geared towards climate-ready living marine resource management in the northeast United States

Saba,

Borggaard,

Caracappa

et al. 2023

PLOS Clim

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“…Across the world, coastal community residents rely on the health of marine ecosystems to harvest fish for subsistence, livelihood, cultural practices, and numerous other dimensions of well-being (Breslow et al, 2016;Szymkowiak and Kasperski, 2021). Fisheries participants experience climate change on complex, interrelated dimensions of social-ecological systems, from changes in participation in resource and non-resource livelihoods to changes in ecosystems and the direct impacts of natural hazards (Badjeck et al, 2010;Dubik et al, 2019;Peterson et al, 2017;Thomas et al, 2019). These complexities create challenges for participants in attributing environmental changes to climate change, making adaptation difficult to conceptualize (Maltby et al, 2021;Van Putten et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%