2018
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2018.209
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Marine Species Range Shifts Necessitate Advanced Policy Planning: The Case of the North Atlantic Right Whale

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“…As Calanus spp. are the main prey of right whales, this likely represents an upper trophic level response to the documented changes circa 2010 in the zooplankton community in the northwest Atlantic shelf (Devine et al, 2017;Johnson et al, 2018;Meyer-Gutbrod et al, 2018). Mean abundance per LFA was calculated from a coupled bio-physical model prediction of the spatial distribution of average May-November 2008 C. finmarchicus late stage abundance (copepodite stages CV and CVI) on the eastern Canadian shelf (Brennan et al, 2019).…”
Section: Stock Statusmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…As Calanus spp. are the main prey of right whales, this likely represents an upper trophic level response to the documented changes circa 2010 in the zooplankton community in the northwest Atlantic shelf (Devine et al, 2017;Johnson et al, 2018;Meyer-Gutbrod et al, 2018). Mean abundance per LFA was calculated from a coupled bio-physical model prediction of the spatial distribution of average May-November 2008 C. finmarchicus late stage abundance (copepodite stages CV and CVI) on the eastern Canadian shelf (Brennan et al, 2019).…”
Section: Stock Statusmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…The Northwest Atlantic has been warming since 1980, and is projected to continue on this trend faster than other ocean basins [24][25][26] making it a natural laboratory to study the complex effects of climate change on marine predators and their prey. Recent shifts in right whale habitat in the region, for example, were linked to climate-related shifts in copepod distribution, and resulted in large additional whale mortality due to emerging new threats in their novel feeding habitat [5,[27][28][29]. Such observations partly motivate the current study, as changes in leatherback scyphozoan prey distributions could potentially enhance threats to this endangered species.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 73%
“…For example, the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has recently experienced shifts in feeding habitat, thought to be a result of rapid warming effects on copepods in the Gulf of Maine [29,73]. Before this shift in habitat occurred, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA) and DFO had designated critical habitat based in their traditional feeding habitat, including the Gulf of Maine and southern Scotian Shelf [27,74]. Right whale sightings in traditional feeding habitats began declining in 2012, and in 2015 an aggregation of right whales was discovered in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence-an area outside of earlier-defined critical habitat [27][28][29].…”
Section: Plos Onementioning
confidence: 99%
“…As species distributions shift with annual cycles, traditional policy approaches are often slow to adapt, resulting in high risk and often an insufficient response [63]. Intra-annual and permanent closures are often targeted to average conditions with seasonal closures addressing the time-period of most concern [47,64].…”
Section: Multi-annual: Climatic Oscillationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is a need to account for the extremes to ensure that anomalous years do not result in irreparable damage to recovering or protected populations (e.g. right whales) [63,68]. Long distance connectivity through oceanographic larval transport can also be directly affected by climatic oscillations, with surface currents only connecting distant habitats during some phases of an oscillation and not others [61].…”
Section: Multi-annual: Climatic Oscillationsmentioning
confidence: 99%