Leading or lagging: How well are climate change considerations being incorporated into Canadian fisheries management?
In response to fisheries declines and delayed population recoveries, many management agencies globally are integrating alternative strategies that incorporate precautionary and ecosystem considerations, increasingly focusing on climate variability and change. Here, we quantitatively evaluate how the...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/cjfas-2020-0394 2023-12-17T10:26:08+01:00 Leading or lagging: How well are climate change considerations being incorporated into Canadian fisheries management? Boyce, Daniel G. Fuller, Susanna Karbowski, Chelsey Schleit, Katie Worm, Boris 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0394 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0394 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0394 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences volume 78, issue 8, page 1120-1129 ISSN 0706-652X 1205-7533 Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 2021 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0394 2023-11-19T13:39:18Z In response to fisheries declines and delayed population recoveries, many management agencies globally are integrating alternative strategies that incorporate precautionary and ecosystem considerations, increasingly focusing on climate variability and change. Here, we quantitatively evaluate how these themes have been incorporated into the science and management plans for Canada’s fisheries by analyzing the content of 905 research and management documents published by the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) for the Atlantic and Eastern Arctic regions. We found that the precautionary approach was mentioned much more frequently (44%) than climate change (11%) or ecosystem approaches to fisheries management (1%). Of research documents that mentioned climate change, 61% contained only a single reference to it, suggesting that it is not quantitatively evaluated in the science that informs the advisory and decision-making processes. Most references to climate change in the DFO research documents expressed high uncertainty of how climate change would impact the stock dynamics. We propose explanations for this and discuss approaches for increasing the incorporation of these themes into Canada’s fishery management. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Canadian Science Publishing (via Crossref) Arctic Canada Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 78 8 1120 1129 |
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In response to fisheries declines and delayed population recoveries, many management agencies globally are integrating alternative strategies that incorporate precautionary and ecosystem considerations, increasingly focusing on climate variability and change. Here, we quantitatively evaluate how these themes have been incorporated into the science and management plans for Canada’s fisheries by analyzing the content of 905 research and management documents published by the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) for the Atlantic and Eastern Arctic regions. We found that the precautionary approach was mentioned much more frequently (44%) than climate change (11%) or ecosystem approaches to fisheries management (1%). Of research documents that mentioned climate change, 61% contained only a single reference to it, suggesting that it is not quantitatively evaluated in the science that informs the advisory and decision-making processes. Most references to climate change in the DFO research documents expressed high uncertainty of how climate change would impact the stock dynamics. We propose explanations for this and discuss approaches for increasing the incorporation of these themes into Canada’s fishery management. |
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