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"Experts from around the world gathered at the OECD in November 2023 for a workshop dedicated to mitigating and adapting fisheries to climate change. We asked experts three questions: How is fishing affected by climate change? How can smart policies reduce the GHG emission from fishing? And what can the OECD do about climate change and fisheries?" 

This video shares the responses of six of those experts:
Olivier Thébaud: Economist - Ifremer, UMR AMURE - Centre for Law and Economics of the Sea
Nathalie Hilmi: Section Head of Environmental Economics - Centre Scientifique de Monaco
Paul Tacuri: Fisheries Resource Analyst - Instituto del Mar del Perú
François Bastardie: Senior Researcher - Technical University of Denmark
Sara Hornborn : Researcher Sustainable Seafood - Research Institute of Sweden
Björn Åsgård: Deputy Director in the Division for Fisheries Game Management and Reindeer Husbandry - Swedish Ministry of Rural Affairs and Infrastructure

"THE UK Government should ignore the current small percentage of GDP that Britain's fishing industry accounts for due to the fact it will soar after Brexit according to the Chairman of Lowestoft Fish Market Alliance....."

Fish stocks that move across two or more exclusive economic zones (EEZ) would be greatly impacted by climate change, according to a new study. By 2030, 23 per cent of the transboundary fish stocks would have shifted, it said.  

Around 78 per cent of the world's EEZs would see at least one shifting stock, the paper published in Global Change Biology noted.

“By 2100, a total of 45 per cent of fish stocks are expected to shift from their historical habitats and migration paths globally and 82 per cent of EEZ waters would experience at least one shifting stock, according to Timing and magnitude of climate-driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management.

Catch proportion of transboundary fish stocks would see a major change and scientists from the University of Columbia said that by 2030 the global exclusive economic zones would experience an average change of 59 per cent in the proportion of the catch.

Many countries that are highly dependent on fisheries for livelihood and food security would emerge as hotspots for transboundary shifts. These hotspots would see early shifts in the distribution of a great number of important transboundary fish stocks. This can lead to conflicts between countries, the report highlighted. 

After the successful first webinar in June 2020, introducing the five pilot demonstrators, over the next months we will get to know each one of them through individual virtual meetings. Experts from the partners involved will provide the most relevant details about the technical and conceptual issues that are being tackled thanks to the Blue-Cloud framework.

The second webinar in this series is scheduled on 14 October 2020 at 14:00 CEST, it will focus on Fish, a matter of scales, the pilot demonstrator managed by the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the French National Research Institute and the Institute of Computer Science at FORTH.

This demonstrator will improve data management and analytic capabilities for fisheries. The webinar will show new features of the Virtual Lab for the FAO Tuna Atlas and Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries Virtual Lab.

The coronavirus pandemic could have a huge impact on fisheries, predicts an international panel of researchers. ‘Although it varies a lot between countries, depending on their fisheries culture,’ says Marloes Kraan, an anthropologist at Wageningen Marine Research and co-chair of the panel.