RT Report
T1 Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries - Book
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Glantz, Michael
A2 Wooster, Warren
A2 Ueber, Edward
A2 MacCall, Alexander
A2 Miller, Kathleen
A2 Fluharty, David
A2 Condrey, Richard
A2 Fuller, Deborah
A2 Feingold, Lucy
A2 Acheson, James
A2 McGoodwin, James
A2 Regier, Henry
A2 Goodier, John
A2 Bailey, Raymond
A2 Steele, John
A2 Krovnin, Andrei
A2 Rodionov, Sergei
A2 Russek, Zdzislaw
A2 Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi
A2 Caviedes, César
A2 Fik, Timothy
A2 Sharp, Gary
K1 fishery
K1 climate change
K1 fish production
K1 climate
K1 fishery product
K1 fishery management
K1 salmon fishery
K1 global warming
K1 marine resource
K1 cod fishery
K1 herring fishery
K1 case study
K1 United States
K1 North Sea
K1 Mexico
K1 Iceland
K1 Poland
K1 Peru
K1 Indian Ocean
K1 Adaptation
K1 Agriculture
K1 Biodiversity
K1 Clean fuels
K1  Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
K1  Energy Efficiency
K1 Evaluation
K1 Food Waste
K1 Green Climate Fund
K1 Health
K1 Industry
K1 Manufacturing
K1 Marine Litter
K1 Natural Resources
K1 Pollution
K1 Poverty
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 521414407
YR 1992
FD 1992
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/27894
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/27894
NO This book provides a comprehensive examination of the relationships between climatic variability, projected global warming, and marine fisheries, drawing on detailed historical case studies from multiple regions, including the North Pacific, the North Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Humboldt Current system, and the Great Lakes. Its central purpose is to assess how fisheries and dependent societies have responded to environmental fluctuations and abrupt ecological disturbances, and to use these experiences as analogues for anticipating future impacts of climate change. The volume adopts a forecasting by analogy approach, explicitly recognising the current limitations of regional climate projections and ecological models. It analyses biological and oceanographic processes affecting fish recruitment, distribution, and productivity, alongside economic structures, management regimes, technological adaptation, and institutional responses. The case studies address stock collapses, shifts in species abundance, regulatory transformations such as the extension of exclusive economic zones, and extreme climatic events including El Niño. Across these examples, the book highlights the complexity of marine ecosystems, the uncertainty surrounding natural mortality and recruitment, and the constraints of fisheries management systems. It emphasises that environmental forcing operates across multiple temporal scales and that societal responses are shaped by political, economic, and technological capacities.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026