New Models Help Scallop Fisheries Adapt to Climate Change
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Fish Site] May 8, 2015
Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and other organisations have developed a model to help regulators improve the resilience of US scallop fisheries to climate change and ocean acidification.
Good management has brought the $559 million United States sea scallop fishery back from the brink of collapse over the past 20 years.
However, its current fishery management plan does not account for longer-term environmental change like ocean warming and acidification that may affect the fishery in the future.
A group of researchers from Woods Hole...
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