Impact of ocean warming on sustainable fisheries management informs the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries.

ABSTRACT: An integrated ecosystem model including fishing and the impact of rising temperatures, relative to species' thermal ranges, was used to assess the cumulative effect of future climate change and sustainable levels of fishing pressure on selected target species. Historically, important stocks of cod and whiting showed declining trends caused by high fisheries exploitation and strong top-down control by their main predators (grey seals and saithe). In a no-change climate scenario these stocks recovered under sustainable management scenarios due to the cumulative effect of reduced fishing and predation mortalities cascading through the food-web. However, rising temperature jeopardised boreal stenothermal species: causing severe declines in grey seals, cod, herring and haddock, while eurytherma

SUBMITTER: Serpetti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5647405 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature