42 research outputs found
'Climate change and capture fisheries: potential impacts, adaptation and mitigation' in Cochrane, K., Young, C.D., Soto, D. and Bahri, T. (eds) Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture: overview of current scientific knowledge
Envisioning 2050: climate change, aquaculture and fisheries in West Africa. Dakar, Senegal 14-16 April 2010
This report presents the activities and results of the workshop Envisioning 2050: Climate Change, Aquaculture and Fisheries in West Africa. The objectives of the workshop were to discuss critical issues and uncertainties faced by the fisheries and aquaculture sector in Ghana, Senegal and Mauritania, build sectoral scenarios for 2050 and discuss the implication of these scenarios in the context of climate change for the countries and the region
Fisheries production systems, climate change and climate variability in West Africa: an annotated bibliography
This bibliography is intended for people who are involved in fisheries, aquaculture, climate change, disaster management and policy development in West Africa or interested in one or more of these issues. The literature in this bibliography includes peer-reviewed journals, books and book chapters, grey reports and institutional technical papers, but is restricted to literature in English. They were gathered through an extensive web search using fisheries, fish, coastal, inland, aquaculture and/or in combination with climate change and impacts, climate variability, specific country names, West Africa and Gulf of Guinea as the main keywords.Fisheries, Climatic change, Aquaculture, Inland fisheries, Bibliographies, Disasters, Africa, West,
Vision 2050: changement climatique, pĂȘche et aquaculture en Afrique de lâOuest Du 14 au 16 avril 2010, Dakar, SĂ©nĂ©gal
Ce rapport prĂ©sente les activitĂ©s et les rĂ©sultats de lâatelier Vision 2050: Changement climatique, pĂȘche et aquaculture en Afrique de lâOuest. Les objectifs de lâatelier Ă©taient de discuter les questions critiques et les incertitudes auxquelles est confrontĂ© le secteur de la pĂȘche et de lâaquaculture au Ghana, au SĂ©nĂ©gal et en Mauritanie, dâĂ©laborer des scĂ©narios sectoriels pour 2050 et de discuter de lâimplication de ces scĂ©narios dans le contexte du changement climatique pour ces pays et la rĂ©gion ouest africaine
Vision 2050: changement climatique, pĂ©che et aquaculture en Afrique de lĂâ Ouest Du 14 au 16 avril 2010, Dakar, SĂËnĂËgal
Ce rapport prĂËsente les activitĂËs et les rĂËsultats de lĂâ atelier Vision 2050: Changement climatique, pĂ©che et aquaculture en Afrique de lĂâ Ouest. Les objectifs de lĂâ atelier ĂËtaient de discuter les questions critiques et les incertitudes auxquelles est confrontĂË le secteur de la pĂ©che et de lĂâ aquaculture au Ghana, au SĂËnĂËgal et en Mauritanie, dĂâ ĂËlaborer des scĂËnarios sectoriels pour 2050 et de discuter de lĂâ implication de ces scĂËnarios dans le contexte du changement climatique pour ces pays et la rĂËgion ouest africaine.Climate change, Fisheries, Aquaculture, Africa,
A zoo-led study of the great ape bushmeat commodity chain in Cameroon
Current levels of bushmeat hunting in west and central Africa are largely unsustainable, and will lead to the loss of an important natural resource and cause the extinction of threatened species. Worryingly, great apes are hunted for their meat despite being protected across their range. In this paper, we highlight the main actors involved in the trafficking of great ape meat around the Dja Biosphere Reserve (DBR) in Cameroon, and describe the commodity chain associated with the trade. In total, 78 hunters, porters, traders and consumers were interviewed. Hunters, all men, were primarily driven by profit, encouraged by middlemen, though some hunt for their own consumption. However, we identify that great ape hunting is undertaken by specialised hunters along a relatively short supply chain. Gorilla and chimpanzee meat is sold to restaurants and wealthy buyers via few intermediaries. The price of great ape meat varied at different stages of the chain. Middlemen obtained the greatest financial gain, whereas wholesale traders profited least. Movement of ape meat to markets was predominantly by public transport and facilitated by drivers who can pass through checkpoints unnoticed. Based on our study we recommend potential interventions, including support of law enforcement, investments in conservation and development initiatives, and monitoring and research
European small pelagic fish distribution under global change scenarios
The spectre of increasing impacts on exploited fish stocks in consequence of warmer climate conditions has become a major concern over the last decades. It is now imperative to improve the way we project the effects of future climate warming on fisheries. While estimating future climate-induced changes in fish distribution is an important contribution to sustainable resource management, the impacts on European small pelagic fishârepresenting over 50% of the landings in the Mediterranean and Black Sea between 2000 and 2013âare yet largely understudied. Here, we investigated potential changes in the spatial distribution of seven of the most harvested small pelagic fish species in Europe under several climate change scenarios over the 21st century. For each species, we considered eight Species Distribution Models (SDMs), five General Circulation Models (GCMs) and three emission scenarios (the IPCC Representative Concentration Pathways; RCPs). Under all scenarios, our results revealed that the environmental suitability for most of the seven species may strongly decrease in the Mediterranean and western North Sea while increasing in
the Black and Baltic Seas. This potential northward range expansion of species is supported by a strong convergence among projections and a low variability between RCPs. Under the most pessimistic scenario (RCP8.5), climate-related local extinctions were expected in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. Our results highlight that a
multi-SDM, multi-GCM, multi-RCP approach is needed to produce more robust ecological scenarios of changes in exploited fish stocks in order to better anticipate the
economic and social consequences of global climate change
Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities
To minimize the impacts of climate change on human wellbeing, governments, development agencies, and civil society organizations have made substantial investments in improving people's capacity to adapt to change. Yet to date, these investments have tended to focus on a very narrow understanding of adaptive capacity. Here, we propose an approach to build adaptive capacity across five domains: the assets that people can draw upon in times of need; the flexibility to change strategies; the ability to organize and act collectively; learning to recognize and respond to change; and the agency to determine whether to change or not