Impacts of Climate Change on Mexican Pacific Fisheries

Lluch‐Cota, Salvador E.; Salvadeo, Christian; Lluch‐Cota, Daniel B.; Saldívar-Lucio, Romeo; Díaz, Germán Ponce

doi:10.1002/9781119154051.ch9

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“…Climate change is affecting Mexican fisheries (Micheli et al, 2012;Lluch-Cota et al, 2017). Forty-four oceanographic sensors have been installed offshore from 25 communities to collect temperature, DO 2 , current and sea level data.…”

Section: Case-study 3: Oceanographic Monitoring For Climate Change Admentioning

confidence: 99%

Untapped Potential of Citizen Science in Mexican Small-Scale Fisheries

Fulton¹,

López-Sagástegui

Weaver³

et al. 2019

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Citizen science is a rapidly growing field with well-designed and run citizen science projects providing substantial benefits for conservation and management. Marine citizen science presents a unique set of challenges and lags behind terrestrial citizen science, but also provides significant opportunities to work in data-poor fisheries. This paper analyses case studies of citizen science projects developed in collaboration with smallscale fishing communities in Mexico's Pacific Ocean, Gulf of California and Caribbean Sea. The design and performance of these projects were evaluated against the previously published Ten Principles of Citizen Science, and Scientific Stages of Inquiry. Our results suggest that fisheries monitoring, submarine monitoring of no take zones, oceanographic monitoring, and the use of species identification apps by fishers meet the requirements of the published guidelines and are effective tools for involving the small-scale fishing community in science. Translating effective citizen science projects in to effective fishery management, however, is still at an early stage. Whilst citizen science data have been used locally by communities to adapt fishing practices, calculate recommendations for total allowable catches, establish and evaluate no take zones and detect range extensions of species affected by climate change, challenges remain regarding how to garner official recognition for the data, incorporate these growing sources of data into national policy, and use the data for adaptive management regimes at the national level.

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Section: Case-study 3: Oceanographic Monitoring For Climate Change Admentioning

confidence: 99%

Untapped Potential of Citizen Science in Mexican Small-Scale Fisheries

Fulton¹,

López-Sagástegui

Weaver³

et al. 2019

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…These socially monogamous seabirds are faithful to their first nesting site (Osorio-Beristain and Drummond 1998;Kim et al 2007) and mainly feed on small pelagic fish (Ancona et al 2012;González-Medina et al 2018). As SST rises, this booby's most common prey are less abundant and move northwards (Morales-Bojórquez et al 2003;Lluch-Cota et al 2017), hence we expect that nests which experienced high SST during the incubation and brood care stages will hatch less eggs, fledge less chicks, and produce fledglings with poorer body condition than those experiencing cold SSTs in those stages. Similarly, we predict a detrimental effect of rainfall on hatching success, fledging success, and fledgling body condition when experienced during incubation and/or in the first weeks of rearing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Weather effects on offspring survival differ between reproductive stages in a Neotropical seabird.

Ortega

Rodrı́guez

Drummond

2022

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Weather conditions can profoundly affect avian reproduction. Thus far, most studies on weather effects have focused on how weather conditions prior to clutch initiation affect laying dates and, ultimately, breeding success. By contrast, little is known of how weather conditions after the onset of reproduction affect birds. Using a 32-year population study of the Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) in Mexico, we show that effects of weather conditions on offspring survival and body condition at independence vary with the reproductive stage at which they occur. During most of the incubation period, warm sea surface temperatures and low to moderate rainfall depressed hatching success; while during the last month of brood care surface temperatures were unimportant but rainfall increased fledging success. In addition, chicks that experienced warm sea surface temperatures in the middle of the brood care stage had lower body condition at fledging. Our results provide insight of how weather effects vary between reproductive stages in a long-lived neotropical seabird.

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