Sustainable Fishery Management Under Extreme Environmental Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

“Sustainable Fishery Management Under Extreme Environmental Challenges” will gather evidence on how warming, deoxygenation, acidification, marine heatwaves, hurricanes, and hypoxia events interact with fishing pressure to modify stocks, ecosystems, and coastal economies. This Special Issue invites papers that combine high-resolution climatic and oceanographic data with biological, socio-ecological, or bio-economic models; measure uncertainty; and test adaptive strategies such as dynamic closures, climate-smart gear, portfolio harvesting, quota banking, or community-based co-management. Contributions may include empirical time-series analyses, forecast systems, game-theoretic or agent-based policy experiments, life-cycle and food-web assessments, and indigenous or local knowledge documenting successful adaptation. By integrating extreme-climate metrics directly into harvest-control rules and governance design, the collection moves beyond single-driver studies that treat the environment as residual noise. It complements recent IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) scoping, FAO climate-adaptation guidelines, and evolving ecosystem-based management literature by providing transferable, data-rich case studies that explicitly connect extreme-event statistics to tangible management performance indicators. The resulting portfolio will equip scientists, managers, and NGOs with practical, climate-resilient tools needed to sustain livelihoods, biodiversity, and food security in a rapidly changing ocean.

Dr. Felipe Amezcua
Dr. María Teresa Carreón-Zapiain
Guest Editors

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