Species redistribution creates unequal outcomes for multispecies fisheries under projected climate change.

ABSTRACT: Climate change drives species distribution shifts, affecting the availability of resources people rely upon for food and livelihoods. These impacts are complex, manifest at local scales, and have diverse effects across multiple species. However, for wild capture fisheries, current understanding is dominated by predictions for individual species at coarse spatial scales. We show that species-specific responses to localized environmental changes will alter the collection of co-occurring species within established fishing footprints along the U.S. West Coast. We demonstrate that availability of the most economically valuable, primary target species is highly likely to decline coastwide in response to warming and reduced oxygen concentrations, while availability of the most abundant, secondary

SUBMITTER: Liu OR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10438463 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature