Adaptation to Global Change in Fisheries Resources and Associated Marine Ecosystems

Dear Colleagues,

Global change has been a topic of concern in recent decades. Oceans act as a buffer against climate change and global warming, but at the expense of the stability of the climate system and marine ecology. Changes such as sea level and circulation changes, melting ice shelves, ocean acidification and hypoxia, and food chain collapse either directly or indirectly affect marine fisheries and marine ecosystems on a global scale, on which, in addition, other synergistic driving forces related to human activity and its impacts act, such as invasive alien species, pollution, habitat use and overexploitation of resources.

In this situation, in order to apply effective measures to maintain fishery production and ecological balance, it is necessary to approach the problem from a holistic point of view. It is urgent to fill the gaps in scientific knowledge, implement new research methods, and retrieve longer historical series on the variability of populations, ecosystems, and the marine environment to achieve sustainable ecological and economic solutions.

This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the state of the art of fisheries, aquaculture and marine ecosystem adaptation on global change. This includes new or existing methods applicable to fisheries, stock-specific examples of applications from data to advice, and reviews of historical information that provide guidance to scientists to address the challenges in future data collection and management advice provision.

Dr. Jésus M. Falcón
Dr. Juan Pérez-Rubín
Dr. Pablo. Martin-Sosa
Guest Editors

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Planned Paper 1：HISTORICAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON FISHERIES VS CLIMATE CHANGES AND PROPOSALS FOR THE FUTURE IN A GLOBAL WARMING CONTEXT

Abstract: The purpose of this review has three objects. The first is to present a broad historical review of the background of international research, mainly in European waters, on marine environmental variability and climate changes, which are the main causes that determine fluctuations in the environment (meteorology and oceanography) and cyclically affect fisheries. We have recovered a selection of seminal international scientific publications from the period 1914-1995, almost generalized forgetting in the 21st century, which can be of great interest to develop a more realistic vision of the future of different fisheries and allow us to differentiate between natural environmental/climate variabilities and human-induced changes in the ecosystems. The second object is to review the main intergovernmental impulses for climate and marine research from the 1980s to the present, detecting gaps and the lack of unanimity in some guidelines of international organizations. The third is to select proposals for the future, which include the need to promote the field of fisheries oceanography internationally at least during the last hundred years, with mutual collaboration between fisheries scientists, oceanographers, meteorologists and researchers who are experts in the marine populations history (the most sensitive indicators of climatic change) and the marine environmental history. We also analyze decadal warming in the Canary Current Upwelling System (extending from NW Iberia to Senegal), which may help understand the current rapid tropicalization of pelagic and benthic ecosystems in southern Europe.