Understanding how environmental and ecological drivers impact fish stock productivity is essential to advance progress towards Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (EBFM). Developing knowledge on these processes is fundamental to enable improved prediction of how fish stocks and fisheries yields may be impacted under climate change – knowledge critical to ensuring that implementation of EBFM in European waters is fit for the future.
This brief summarises SEAwise’s work on enhancing the prediction of long-term trends in fish stock productivity. Our research details the environmental and ecological drivers of recruitment, growth, and mortality dynamics within stocks. It also highlights our use of these findings in the development of enhanced Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) models – by doing so, providing managers with stronger tools to support more informed and adaptive decision-making under climate change.
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