Alaska’s fishing communities facing climate change
Scientists have found that more planning is needed to help fishing communities in the Gulf of Alaska adapt and mitigate the potential economic impacts of climate change. Fishing is Alaska’s…
The Kesälahti winter seine fishery in Finland is threatened by increasingly warm winters that make it impossible for the usual fishery on the ice to continue. Image: Snowchange Co-operative
Climate change could end Finland’s winter seine fishery
LIFE members from Snowchange Co-operative are working to raise the alarm. Melting ice is leading to the disappearance of their traditional seining fishery season. In the 1960s the harvest could start…
The changing state of the North-East Atlantic mackerel stock is seen as an example of how climate change is already affecting fisheries
Fishing must adapt to climate change impacts, says MSC
The Marine Stewardship Council has responded to the IPCC report on the Ocean and Cryosphere with a stark warning that fishing industries and governments need to urgently step up co-operation…