Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice

Mason, Julia G.; Eurich, Jacob G.; Lau, Jacqueline; Battista, Willow; Free, Christopher M.; Mills, Katherine E.; Tokunaga, Kanae; Zhao, Lily Z.; Dickey‐Collas, Mark; Valle, Mireia; Pecl, Gretta; Cinner, Joshua E.; McClanahan, Tim R.; Allison, Edward H.; Friedman, Whitney R.; Silva, Claudio; Yáñez, Eleuterio; Barbieri, María Ángela; Kleisner, Kristin M.

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“…Finally, and perhaps most importantly, efforts to enhance the socioeconomic resilience of fisher livelihoods to climate change are critical to buffering against negative climate impacts (Mason et al, 2022). Overall, the impacts of climate change on fisheries will be complex and diverse and will need to be met with equally nuanced and diverse management actions.…”

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“…However, climate change is likely to generate novel conditions that cannot be predicted based on historical monitoring, assessment and management experience (Hilborn, 1987), and management will need to become increasingly nimble and flexible to respond to these surprises. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, efforts to enhance the socioeconomic resilience of fisher livelihoods to climate change are critical to buffering against negative climate impacts (Mason et al, 2022). Overall, the impacts of climate change on fisheries will be complex and diverse and will need to be met with equally nuanced and diverse management actions.…”

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Harvest control rules used in US federal fisheries management and implications for climate resilience

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Climate change is altering the productivity of marine fisheries and challenging the effectiveness of historical fisheries management. Harvest control rules, which describe the process for determining catch limits in fisheries, represent one pathway for promoting climate resilience. In the United States, flexibility in how regional management councils specify harvest control rules has spawned diverse approaches for reducing catch limits to precautionarily buffer against scientific and management uncertainty, some of which may be more or less resilient to climate change. Here, we synthesize the control rules used to manage all 507 U.S. federally-managed fish stocks and stock complexes. We classified these rules into seven typologies: (1) catchbased; (2) constant catch; (3) constant escapement; (4) constant F; (5) stepped F; (6) ramped F, and ( 7) both stepped and ramped F. We also recorded whether the control rules included a biomass limit ("cutoff") value or were environmentally-linked as well as the type and size of the buffers used to protect against scientific and/or management uncertainty. Finally, we review the advantages and disadvantages of each typology for managing fisheries under climate change and provide seven recommendations for updating harvest control rules to improve the resilience of U.S. federally-managed fisheries to climate change.

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“…as a complex social ecological system is still a key question due to gaps across (i) ecological, (ii) socio-economic and (iii) governance dimensions (Mason et al, 2021). Globally, managing for climate resilient fisheries has focused on building resistance to stressors and recovery from both ecosystem disturbances and pressures from social systems (Mason et al, 2021). However, in the Southern Ocean, where there are no resident social systems in place, building climate resilience is skewed towards the former (Press and Constable, 2022).…”

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Managing for Climate Resilient Fisheries: Applications to the Southern Ocean

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“…Putting resilience into practice is challenging because it is so complex: feedbacks within and between social and ecological dimensions of systems are dynamic and nonlinear; appropriate resilience indicators and the data to measure them remain elusive; and the very definition of resilience is ambiguous and “turbulent” (Davidson et al 2013 ; Moser et al 2019 ). To engage this complexity, researchers have theorized principles and attributes of resilience that we could observe and potentially strengthen (e.g., Biggs et al 2012 ; Whitney et al 2017 ; Mason et al 2021a ). We still, however, lack understanding of how these attributes apply to fisheries specifically, which attributes are relevant in different contexts, and, critically, how they interact to confer or inhibit resilience (Whitney et al 2017 ; Cinner and Barnes 2019 ).…”

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Climate resilience and risks of rigidity traps in Iceland’s fisheries

Mason

Stedman

Kleisner

2023

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Iceland’s fisheries system is well-governed, data-rich, and has adapted to past ecological change. It thus provides an opportunity to identify social-ecological attributes of climate resilience and interactions among them. We elicited barriers and enabling conditions for adaptation in Iceland’s fisheries from semi-structured expert interviews, using projections of fish habitat shifts by mid-century to guide discussion. Interviewees highlighted flexible management, highly connected institutions that facilitate learning, ample assets to expand adaptive options, and cultural comfort with change. However, examining how these attributes interact in reinforcing feedback loops revealed potential rigidity traps, where optimization for resilience to stock shifts may render the system more vulnerable to extreme environmental change and social backlash. This study articulates resilience attributes that Iceland and other fisheries systems might prioritize as the climate changes. It further explores circumstances in which these same attributes risk forming traps, and potential pathways to escape them. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-023-01859-8.

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Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice

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Cited by 43 publications

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Harvest control rules used in US federal fisheries management and implications for climate resilience

Harvest control rules used in US federal fisheries management and implications for climate resilience

Managing for Climate Resilient Fisheries: Applications to the Southern Ocean

Climate resilience and risks of rigidity traps in Iceland’s fisheries

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