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Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture: overview of current scientific knowledge

Year of publication 2009

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 221

Author Cochrane, K.; De Young, C.; Soto, D.; Bahri, T. (eds).;Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9789251063477

Series title FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Papers

Series number No. 530

Synopsis (short abstract) This document provides an overview of the current scientific knowledge available on climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture. It contains three technical papers that were presented and discussed during the Expert Workshop on “Climate Change Implications for Fisheries and Aquaculture” (Rome, 7–9 April 2008). A summary of the workshop outcomes as well as key messages on impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems and on fisheries- and aquaculture-based livelihoods ar e provided in the introduction. The first paper addresses climate variability and change and their physical and ecological consequences on marine and freshwater environments. The second paper tackles the consequences of climate changes impacts on fishers and their communities and reviews possible adaptation and mitigation measures that could be implemented. Finally, the third paper addresses specifically the impacts of climate change on aquaculture and reviews possible adaptation and mitigation measures that could be implemented.

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Cochrane, K.; De Young, C.; Soto, D.; Bahri, T. (eds).Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture: overview of current scientific knowledge.FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper. No. 530. Rome, FAO. 2009. 212p.

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