An Earth-System perspective on the future of global marine fisheries

Online seminar by Prof. Daniele Bianchi from University of California Los Angeles

14 April 2022
KST 15:00 – 16:00

Join us online: https://pusan.zoom.us/j/96514010555?pwd=QWFuSjExL2R6YTdvZ0puSnpGOXRMdz09 Meeting ID: 965 1401 0555 Passcode: 785001

The global wild marine fish harvest increased fourfold between 1950 and its current peak, reflecting interactions between human and ecological drivers. This talk will examine these interactions in an Earth System perspective, using a coupled fishery-economics model. I will use a combination of hindcast simulations and future scenarios to highlight the major role of economic drivers, with climate change increasingly important under effective management. I will conclude by discussing results from the recent Fishery Model Intercomparison Project (FishMIP), which suggest pervasive biomass reduction and amplification of this decline at higher trophic levels under high emission scenarios.