Project

Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation Strategies

Developing win-win fishery management strategies in the face of climate change

As rapidly changing climates continue to alter marine ecosystems and fisheries, the need to identify robust adaptive management strategies that support the sustainability and resiliency of species and fisheries has become a matter of urgency. Our project will work to develop widely applicable general management strategies that promote the conservation of shifting marine fish stocks, and support the ability of fishermen and fishing communities to adapt to changing climates.

Project Objectives:

  • Analyze relationships between population size structures and species distribution shifts.
  • Identify size-based structuring at the leading edge, center, and trailing edge of species distributions.
  • Create a size-structured, spatially-explicit population model for evaluating how the spatial patterning of size structure shapes population dynamics.
  • Evaluate conservation and fishery outcomes of different fishery adaptation strategies.
  • Collaborate with key stakeholder groups including scientific, conservation, fishery management, fishing industry, and public audiences.

Project Team

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