Climate adaptation in the market squid fishery: fishermen responses to past variability associated with El Nino Southern Oscillation cycles inform our understanding of adaptive capacity in the face of future climate change.

ABSTRACT: Evaluating the strategies fishermen have used to respond to short-term climate variability in the past can help inform our understanding of the adaptive capacity of a fishery in the face of anticipated future change. Using historic fishery landings, climate records, and fishermen surveys, we document how market squid fishermen respond to high seasonal and interannual climate variability associated with the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and responses to hypothetical future scenarios of low abundance and range shift. Overall, fishermen have been able to adapt to dramatic shifts in the geographic range of the fishery given their high mobility, with fishermen with larger vessels expressing a willingness to travel greater distances than those with smaller vessels. Nearly half of fishermen

SUBMITTER: Powell F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9252554 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature