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Fishing and Climate Change

Fishermen as sentinels of changes in marine species

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We would like to hear about your experiences and perspectives on climate change and bycatch.

Marine Beacon aims to improve how we monitor, assess, and reduce bycatch, in order to help protect threatened and vulnerable species while supporting sustainable fishing. To do this, it is essential to better understand which species are most at risk, so that managers can respond quickly and effectively to changing pressures—including those related to climate change—to best protect these species.

As ocean conditions change, species distributions also shift. This may mean that the fishing sector faces new or more frequent interactions with protected, endangered, and threatened (PET) species in areas where they were previously rare or absent. It will be essential to adapt management to these changes.

The fishing industry is often the first to notice these changes. We would greatly appreciate your feedback on:

The changes you have observed in non-target or vulnerable species

How interactions with these species affect your operations

Future changes that you believe should be taken into account in fisheries management

Join the discussion and help ensure that future approaches work for both the sector and the ecosystems on which it depends.

Don’t forget to complete the questionnaire before posting your comments after the survey below.

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Motivation

Share field observations on species changes observed by fishermen

Language:

English

Publisher:

Community manager

Keywords:

All Seas Climate Change

Fishermen New Marine Species

Survey

We’d like to hear your experience and perspectives on climate change and bycatch.

Is the fishing industry already seeing shifts in rare or protected species?

1-1 Have you observed new or unusual species appearing in? *

1-2 Are there changes in timing or location of encounters with protected species? *

1-3 Are bycatch events becoming more or less frequent, or just occurring in different places? *

Climate-driven shifts in bycatch risk

2-1 Do you think interactions with protected species linked to environmental conditions? *

Impacts of shifting target vs. non-target species

3-1 Are target species becoming harder/easier to find? *

3-2 Are you catching more “non-target” species than before? *

3-3 How are these changes affecting economic viability? *

Potential management responses

4-1 How can knowledge from the fishing industry be integrated into early-warning systems for protected species interactions? *

4-2 How can fisheries remain economically viable while conservation targets under climate change? *

4-3 How do you think any future shifts in target or non-target species should be accounted for by managers and policy makers? *

Additional thoughts/comments

5-1 Additional thoughts/comments *

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