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Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery-based livelihoods
Type: Journal Article
There is increasing concern over the consequences of global warming for the food security and livelihoods of the world’s 36million fisherfolk and the nearly 1.5 billion consumers who rely on fish for more than 20% of their ...
Autonomous adaptation to climate change by shrimp and catfish farmers in Vietnam’s Mekong River delta
Type: Working Paper
The Mekong River delta of Vietnam supports a thriving aquaculture industry but is exposed to the impacts of climate change. In particular, sea level rise and attendant increased flooding (both coastal and riverine) and ...
The future is now: how scenarios can help Senegalese and Mauritanian fisheries adapt to climate change
Type: Journal Article
Localized changes in the productivity of marine and inland waters induced by climate change will pose new challenges to the fishery and the aquaculture sectors in West Africa. However, climate change does not occur in ...
Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Anthropogenic global warming has significantly influenced physical and biological processes at global and regional scales. The observed and anticipated changes in global climate present significant opportunities and ...
Climate variability and the Peruvian scallop fishery: the role of formal institutions in resilience building
Type: Journal Article
Peru experiences recurrent ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) events during which the Peruvian bay scallop (Argopecten purpuratus) undergoes substantial changes in its stock size. In the North of the country strong warm ...
Climate change and capture fisheries: potential impacts, adaptation and mitigation
Type: Report
The paper tackles the consequences of climate change impacts on fisheries and their dependent communities. It analyses the exposure, sensitivity and vulnerability of fisheries to climate change and presents examples of ...