Evaluating the promise and pitfalls of a potential climate change-tolerant sea urchin fishery in southern California.

ABSTRACT: Marine fishery stakeholders are beginning to consider and implement adaptation strategies in the face of growing consumer demand and potential deleterious climate change impacts such as ocean warming, ocean acidification, and deoxygenation. This study investigates the potential for development of a novel climate change-tolerant sea urchin fishery in southern California based on Strongylocentrotus fragilis (pink sea urchin), a deep-sea species whose peak density was found to coincide with a current trap-based spot prawn fishery (Pandalus platyceros) in the 200-300-m depth range. Here we outline potential criteria for a climate change-tolerant fishery by examining the distribution, life-history attributes, and marketable qualities of S. fragilis in southern

SUBMITTER: Sato KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5972446 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature