Emerging Adaptation Approaches for Climate-Ready Fisheries Management

Pinsky, Malin L.; Mantua, Nathan J.

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“…There is a growing body of research that addresses the question of resilience to climate change from different angles: by looking at climate change adaptation and resilience in specific fisheries SES (Cinner et al 2009a; Lopes et al 2011; Pinsky and Mantua 2014; Maldonado and Moreno-Sánchez 2014) by assessing the adaptive capacity of fisheries SES to confront climate change (Leith et al 2014; López-Angarita et al 2014; Rivera et al 2014); and by identifying attributes that safeguard economic (van Putten et al 2013) and ecological resilience for a given fishery (McClanahan et al 2012). However, no studies have suggested broadly applicable criteria for assessing socio-ecological resilience of fisheries.…”

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Fisheries regulatory regimes and resilience to climate change

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Gaines

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Climate change is already producing ecological, social, and economic impacts on fisheries, and these effects are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude in the future. Fisheries governance and regulations can alter socio-ecological resilience to climate change impacts via harvest control rules and incentives driving fisher behavior, yet there are no syntheses or conceptual frameworks for examining how institutions and their regulatory approaches can alter fisheries resilience to climate change. We identify nine key climate resilience criteria for fisheries socio-ecological systems (SES), defining resilience as the ability of the coupled system of interacting social and ecological components (i.e., the SES) to absorb change while avoiding transformation into a different undesirable state. We then evaluate the capacity of four fisheries regulatory systems that vary in their degree of property rights, including open access, limited entry, and two types of rights-based management, to increase or inhibit resilience. Our exploratory assessment of evidence in the literature suggests that these regulatory regimes vary widely in their ability to promote resilient fisheries, with rights-based approaches appearing to offer more resilience benefits in many cases, but detailed characteristics of the regulatory instruments are fundamental.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0850-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Moreover, as e.g. Pinsky [3] and Brander [4] press, our model shows that it is fundamental to continuously adjust current reference points to changing conditions. The simulation experiment undertaken in this study can be regarded as a pilot study to scrutinize adaptive management through a computational LBD model in the context of a simple renewable resource, and opens up for a variety of potential future studies.…”

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“…It focuses on three fundamental trade-off dilemmas for sustainable management of natural resources: how to value future outcomes (e.g. discount factors, planning horizons) [17 -20], the rate at which reference points are adjusted in response to new knowledge [3,4,21] and exploration versus business as usual [22,23]. These dilemmas are similar to the key learning components of the LBD process in learning theory (e.g.…”

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“…These rising uncertainties pose additional challenges to management and, increase the urgency of developing efficient and robust strategies to adapt to these changes [2][3][4][5][6]. While climate change effects on species' distributions and abundance is a known uncertainty [7 -9], how climate change will disturb harvested species' growth rates is often overlooked [10][11][12].…”

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Strategies for sustainable management of renewable resources during environmental change

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As a consequence of global environmental change, management strategies that can deal with unexpected change in resource dynamics are becoming increasingly important. In this paper we undertake a novel approach to studying resource growth problems using a computational form of adaptive management to find optimal strategies for prevalent natural resource management dilemmas. We scrutinize adaptive management, or learningby-doing, to better understand how to simultaneously manage and learn about a system when its dynamics are unknown. We study important trade-offs in decision-making with respect to choosing optimal actions (harvest efforts) for sustainable management during change. This is operationalized through an artificially intelligent model where we analyze how different trends and fluctuations in growth rates of a renewable resource affect the performance of different management strategies. Our results show that the optimal strategy for managing resources with declining growth is capable of managing resources with fluctuating or increasing growth at a negligible cost, creating in a management strategy that is both efficient and robust towards future unknown changes. To obtain this strategy, adaptive management should strive for: high learning rates to new knowledge, high valuation of future outcomes and modest exploration around what is perceived as the optimal action.

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“…This effect may be due, in part, to northern fish having greater food conversion efficiencies (Present and Conover 1992). Regardless of the mechanism driving this pattern, latitudinal variation in growth and maturity could have far reaching management implications as the northern stock of sea bass continues to shift poleward (Pinsky and Mantua 2014, Kleisner 2016.…”

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Ecological and socioeconomic implications of a northern range expansion of black sea bass, Centropristis striata

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Emerging Adaptation Approaches for Climate-Ready Fisheries Management

Cited by 147 publications

References 82 publications

Fisheries regulatory regimes and resilience to climate change

Fisheries regulatory regimes and resilience to climate change

Strategies for sustainable management of renewable resources during environmental change

Ecological and socioeconomic implications of a northern range expansion of black sea bass, Centropristis striata

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