Impacts of climate change for coastal fishers and implications for fisheries

Savo, Valentina; Morton, Cedar; Lepofsky, Dana

doi:10.1111/faf.12212

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“…The level of cross-sectoral assessment that we provided is atypical; more often, climate change assessments focus on a particular sector or specific climate change impact (e.g., flood control for sea level rise; Yumagulova and Vertinsky 2017). The social-ecological implications of climate change are not novel in and of themselves; the impacts of warming oceans, increasing air temperatures, ocean acidification, and sea level rise are well known (e.g., Foreman et al 2014;Savo et al 2017;Frölicher et al 2018;Pinsky et al 2019). By bringing together research on four key areas of interest, in collaboration with a regional planning and plan implementation partnership, our research provides a more complete picture of the scale and scope of climate change impacts across social and ecological spheres within this region.…”

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Synthesizing and communicating climate change impacts to inform coastal adaptation planning

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Planning for adaptation to climate change requires regionally relevant information on rising air and ocean temperatures, sea levels, increasingly frequent and intense storms, and other climate-related impacts. However, in many regions there are limited focused syntheses of the climate impacts, risks, and potential adaptation strategies for coastal marine areas and sectors. We report on a regional assessment of climate change impacts and recommendations for adaptation strategies in the NE Pacific Coast (British Columbia, Canada), conducted in collaboration with a regional planning and plan implementation partnership (Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast), aimed at bridging the gaps between climate science and regional adaptation planning. We incorporated both social and ecological aspects of climate change impacts and adaptations, and the feedback mechanisms which may result in both increased risks and opportunities for the following areas of interest: “Ecosystems”, “Fisheries and Aquaculture”, “Communities”, and “Marine Infrastructure”. As next steps within the region, we propose proactive planning measures including communication of the key impacts and projections and cross-sectoral assessments of climate vulnerability and risk to direct decision-making.

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Synthesizing and communicating climate change impacts to inform coastal adaptation planning

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“…Limit the window of opportunity for fishing-can result in food insecurity and disturb Inuit livelihoods (Islam et al, 2014, McCubbin et al, 2015, Savo et al, 2017.…”

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Climate change and community fisheries in the arctic: A case study from Pangnirtung, Canada

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Bennett

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Journal of Environmental Management

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Coastal fishery systems in the Arctic are undergoing rapid change. This paper examines the ways in which Inuit fishers experience and respond to such change, using a case study from Pangnirtung, Canada. The work is based on over two years of fieldwork, during which semistructured interviews (n=62), focus group discussions (n=6, 31 participants) and key informant interviews (n=25) were conducted. The changes that most Inuit fishers experience are: changes in sea-ice conditions, Inuit people themselves, the landscape and the seascape, fish-related changes, and changes in weather conditions, markets and fish selling prices. Inuit fishers respond to change individually as well as collectively. Fishers' responses were examined using the characteristics of a resilience-based conceptual framework focusing on place, human agency, collective action and collaboration, institutions, indigenous and local knowledge systems, and learning. Based on results, this paper identified three community-level adaptive strategies, which are diversification, technology use and fisheries governance that employs a co-management approach. Further, this work recognised four place-specific attributes that can shape community adaptations, which are Inuit worldviews, Inuit-owned institutions, a culture of sharing and collaborating, and indigenous and local knowledge systems. An examination of the ways in which Inuit fishers experience and respond to change is essential to better understand adaptations to climate change. This study delivers new insights to communities, scientists, and policymakers to work together to foster community adaptation.

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“…Ecological changes have consequences for coastal fishing communities; increased seasonal variability and shifts in the distribution of target species affect the ability of fishing communities to thrive and persist (Badjeck, Allison, Halls, & Dulvy, 2010;Pinsky & Fogarty, 2012;Roessig et al, 2004;Savo, Morton, & Lepofsky, 2017). Large-scale redistribution of marine fish has food security implications (Cheung et al, 2010) and effects at the scale of national economies are predicted in many fisheries-dependent states (Allison et al, 2009).…”

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Shifting perceptions of rapid temperature changes’ effects on marine fisheries, 1945–2017

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Climate‐driven warming has both social and ecological effects on marine fisheries. While recent changes due to anthropogenic global warming have been documented, similar basin‐wide changes have occurred in the past due to natural temperature fluctuations. Here, we document the effects of rapidly changing water temperatures along the United States’ east coast using observations from fisheries newspapers during a warming phase (1945–1951) and subsequent cooling phase (1952–1960) of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, which we compared to similar recent observations of warming waters (1998–2017). Historical warming and cooling events affected the abundance of species targeted by fishing, the prevalence of novel and invasive species, and physical access to targeted species. Fishing communities viewed historical cooling waters twice as negatively as they did warming waters (72% vs. 35% of observations). Colder waters were associated with a decrease in fishing opportunity due to storminess, while warming waters were associated with the potential for new fisheries. In contrast, recent warming waters were viewed as strongly negative by fishing communities (72% of observations), associated with disease, reductions in abundances of target species, and shifts in distributions across jurisdictional lines. This increasing perception that warming negatively affects local fisheries may be due to an overall reduction of opportunity in fisheries over the past half century, an awareness of the relative severity of warming today, larger changes in American culture, or a combination of these factors. Negative perceptions of recent warming waters’ effects on fisheries suggest that fishing communities are currently finding the prospect of climate adaptation difficult.

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Impacts of climate change for coastal fishers and implications for fisheries

Cited by 58 publications

References 88 publications

Synthesizing and communicating climate change impacts to inform coastal adaptation planning

Synthesizing and communicating climate change impacts to inform coastal adaptation planning

Climate change and community fisheries in the arctic: A case study from Pangnirtung, Canada

Shifting perceptions of rapid temperature changes’ effects on marine fisheries, 1945–2017

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