“We are doing our best to try to figure out what will happen, so that people can adapt and so that we can develop climate-resilient or climate-ready management policies,” Braun said.
He said that historic ways to manage fisheries are static, even though fish move around a lot. “We basically draw a box in the ocean and say whether you can or can’t fish there,” he said. Dynamic ocean management frameworks “must embody expected changes. Otherwise, you are left with your static box in the ocean that doesn’t move, even though the fish may have moved, and the ocean may have changed.”
Funding for this research was provided by a NASA Ecological Conservation program grant, the NOAA Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Program, the Postdoctoral Scholar Program at WHOI, and the Dr. George D. Grice Postdoctoral Scholarship Fund at WHOI.
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Authors: Camrin D. Braun1 *, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa2,3, Nima Farchadi4, Martin C. Arostegui1, Michael Alexander5, Andrew Allyn6, Steven J. Bograd2, Stephanie Brodie2,3, Daniel P. Crear7, Tobey H. Curtis8, Elliott L. Hazen2,3, Alex Kerney6, Katherine E. Mills6, Dylan Pugh6, James D. Scott5,9, Heather Welch2,3, Riley Young-Morse6, and Rebecca Lewison4
Affiliations:
1Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
2Environmental Research Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Monterey, CA, USA
3Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
4Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
5NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
6Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, USA
7ECS Federal, in Support of National Marine Fisheries Service, Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division, Silver Spring, MD, USA
8National Marine Fisheries Service, Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division, Gloucester, MA, USA
9Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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