The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) exhorts global partners to address challenges associated with climate change, marine ecosystem health, and food security. The Ocean Decade Programme "Sustainability of Marine Ecosystems Through Global Knowledge Networks" (SMARTNET), jointly sponsored by ICES and PICES, works to build shared knowledge and capacity to understand, forecast, manage, and adapt to climate-driven changes in marine ecosystems and their associated fisheries.
In this session, we aim to evaluate our collective capacity, within and beyond the Ocean Decade "climate–fisheries" nexus, to develop the decision-support tools needed to promote effective fisheries management and adaptation strategies in a changing climate. We invite participants to
- Compare various mechanisms used to integrate climate information into ecosystem-based fisheries management
- Help develop a global inventory of capacities, gaps, and paths forward for climate-ready fisheries management (including data streams, models, information infrastructure, communication avenues, co-development practices, governance frameworks).
An outcome of this session will be a white paper outlining best practices for supporting climate-ready fisheries management.
