Adaptation to Global Change in Fisheries Resources and Associated Marine Ecosystems
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean and Global Climate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2025 | Viewed by 1873
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Impact of fishing on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs); Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as tools for management; biogeography of fishes; non-indigenous fish species and tropicalization of Macaronesian ichthyofauna
Interests: biological oceanography; recovery of historical information on past drastic environmental and in marine populations changes; local interrelationships between historical and marine sciences; impact of climate variability and human activity on the distribution and abundance of various marine species; coastal living resources
Interests: sensitive deep-sea habitats monitoring and the impact of fisheries on them; marine reserves and their fisheries displacement; fishery essentiality and economic viability; stakeholders' perceptions on fisheries
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global change has been a topic of concern in recent decades. Oceans act as a buffer against climate change and global warming, but at the expense of the stability of the climate system and marine ecology. Changes such as sea level and circulation changes, melting ice shelves, ocean acidification and hypoxia, and food chain collapse either directly or indirectly affect marine fisheries and marine ecosystems on a global scale, on which, in addition, other synergistic driving forces related to human activity and its impacts act, such as invasive alien species, pollution, habitat use and overexploitation of resources.
In this situation, in order to apply effective measures to maintain fishery production and ecological balance, it is necessary to approach the problem from a holistic point of view. It is urgent to fill the gaps in scientific knowledge, implement new research methods, and retrieve longer historical series on the variability of populations, ecosystems, and the marine environment to achieve sustainable ecological and economic solutions.
This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the state of the art of fisheries, aquaculture and marine ecosystem adaptation on global change. This includes new or existing methods applicable to fisheries, stock-specific examples of applications from data to advice, and reviews of historical information that provide guidance to scientists to address the challenges in future data collection and management advice provision.
Dr. Jésus M. Falcón
Dr. Juan Pérez-Rubín
Dr. Pablo. Martin-Sosa
Guest Editors
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