Editorial: Managing for the Future: Challenges and Approaches for Disentangling the Relative Roles of Environmental Change and Fishing in Marine Ecosystems

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Bundy, Alida, Renaud, Paul E., Coll, Marta, Koenigstein, Stefan, Niiranen, Susa, Pennino, Maria Grazia, Tam, Jamie C., Travers-Trolet, Morgane
• Other Authors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway), European Commission, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2021
• Subjects: Ecosystem variability; Management; Multiple stressors; Cumulative effects; Spatial scale; Climate change; Fisheries; Henson; Norwegian Sea
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/252663; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.753459; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033

7 pages, 1 figure.-- This RT originated from a session led by the CoArc project at the IMBeR 2019 Open Science Conference, Future Oceans2, held in Brest, France on 17-21 June 2019 In the Anthropocene era, characterized by significant human impact on Earth's systems, the old saying “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose” does not apply to the natural world. The oceans, long held to be relatively stable physically, biogeochemically and ecologically, are warming, acidifying, and de-oxygenating (Gruber, 2011; IPCC, 2019; Kwiatkowski et al., 2020). In short, marine ecosystems are changing (Doney et al., 2012; Hollowed et al., 2013; Gao et al., 2019), and in some areas of the globe, the change is very rapid (Henson et al., 2017; Johnson and Lyman, 2020). At the same time, human-induced stressors such as fisheries and pollution continue, with sometimes dramatic observed and predicted declines in commercial stocks (e.g., Vasilakopoulos et al., 2014; Lotze et al., 2019). Therefore, in the 21st century, fisheries and ocean managers require science advice that accounts for the cumulative effects of multiple stressors, fisheries removals, human-induced climate change, anthropogenic stressors, environmental variability, and trophic dynamics. Ongoing climate change and increasing pressure to intensify Blue Growth and the Blue Economy highlight the immediacy of the situation. There is strong need to better understand the impacts of these stressors and ecosystem variability so that we may proactively contribute to the management process. In parts of the world, such as the data rich northern hemisphere, over a century of monitoring marine fisheries and ecosystems has produced a substantial database from which to study ecosystem response to climate change. This has contributed to the development of policies for sustainable management of fisheries and ecosystems, and in some jurisdictions, development of ecosystem-based action plans, such as the Baltic Sea Plan (HELCOM, 2007) and the Norwegian Sea Integrated Management Plan ...