Community-level economic impacts of a change in TAC for Alaska fisheries: A multi-regional framework assessment

Alaska fishers attest to climate change impacts in discourse on resource management under marine heatwaves

“…Although climate events are just one driver of shifts in discourse captured in comments, the scale of the marine heatwave suggests a critical role. In the years immediately following the heatwaves, there was an unprecedented series of fishery closures and disasters in the region, leaving many coastal communities grappling with tremendous losses in income due to both direct and indirect impacts (Seung, 2017;Seung et al, 2021). Due to the lags from marine heatwaves' occurrence to their effects on fisheries, some impacts of recent marine heatwaves were contemporaneous with the economic and social impacts of COVID-19 (National Marine Fisheries Service, 2020) -these included the loss of in-person access to fisheries policy with changes in Board of Fish meetings (Haight, 2020).…”