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Climate Change and Marine Fisheries
Author(s) -
Francis Robert C.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8446(1990)015<0007:ccamf>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - climate change , marine fisheries , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , global warming , greenhouse gas , fishery , ecological forecasting , environmental science , natural resource economics , effects of global warming , function (biology) , environmental resource management , geography , ecology , economics , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , computer science , artificial intelligence , evolutionary biology
Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases may significantly change global climate over the next century. Atmos‐ pheric temperatures are expected to increase at a rate of 4°C per hundred years, a rate that exceeds the postglacial warming by more than an order of magnitude. This paper discusses the three areas where we must immediately make significant efforts to improve our knowledge if we are to stand any chance of unraveling the complex linkages between global climate change and marine fisheries production. The three areas are the prediction of oceanographic effects of climate change, the improvement of our understanding of the structure and function of the marine food chain, and the improvement of our understanding of the important social aspects of marine fisheries. We, as fisheries scientists, must develop new methodological concepts and change our way of thinking when developing public policy in anticipation of global change.