Towards a more sustainable pelagic fishery in the Arctic region
The Arctic is warming nearly three times faster than the rest of the planet. Climate change impacts in this region include melting sea ice, thawing permafrost, melting glaciers, more frequent extreme weather events, ocean acidification, and warming oceans. What happens in the Arctic will have influences in the rest of the world.
Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland are home to diverse and productive ecosystems that play a central role in the national economies of the respective countries. They are closely interconnected through the economic structure of commercial fisheries, as they share ocean space, several commercially important fish stocks, and a heavy economic dependence on commercial fishing. Evaluating the impacts of climate change is therefore a pressing challenge and a serious concern in the light of shared stock management; there is evidence that climate change impacts and changing oceanographic conditions are causing shifts in pelagic fish distributions and abundance, with negative impacts for the fishing industry.
Under Marine SABRES project these three countries represent one international research area; here researchers will examine the effects of climate change and changing oceanographic conditions on fisheries, and concrete actions will be suggested for increasing food provisioning ecosystem services (ES), by sustainably caught fisheries and the sustainable development of aquaculture.
Watch our documentary trailer and enjoy the video shootings we realised in Iceland during the 2nd Marine SABRES General Assembly, in the framework of video documentary and WebTv activities.
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