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Queiros, AM, Fernandes, JA, Genevier, L and Lynam, CP 2018 Climate change alters fish community size-structure, requiring adaptive policy targets. Fish and Fisheries, 19 (4). https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12278
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Abstract/Summary
Size‐based indicators are used worldwide in research that supports the management of commercially exploited wild fish populations, because of their responsiveness to fishing pressure. Observational and experimental data, however, have highlighted the deeply rooted links between fish size and environmental conditions that can drive additional, interannual changes in these indicators. Here, we have used biogeochemical and mechanistic niche modelling of commercially exploited demersal fish species to project time series to the end of the 21st century for one such indicator, the large fish indicator (LFI), under global CO2 emissions scenarios. Our modelling results, validated against survey data, suggest that the LFI's previously proposed policy target may be unachievable under future climate change. In turn, our results help to identify what may be achievable policy targets for demersal fish communities experiencing climate change. While fisheries modelling has grown as a science, climate change modelling is seldom used specifically to address policy aims. Studies such as this one can, however, enable a more sustainable exploitation of marine food resources under changes unmanageable by fisheries control. Indeed, such studies can be used to aid resilient policy target setting by taking into account climate‐driven effects on fish community size‐structure.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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| Additional Keywords: | climate change; fish; fisheries; indicator; policy; size-spectrum |
| Subjects: | Aquaculture Atmospheric Sciences Biology Conservation Data and Information Ecology and Environment Economics Fisheries Management Marine Sciences Meteorology and Climatology Oceanography Policies Zoology |
| Divisions: | Plymouth Marine Laboratory > Science Areas > Marine Ecology and Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Dr Ana Queiros |
| Date made live: | 25 Apr 2018 11:37 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2020 09:59 |
| URI: | https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/7809 |
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