Qian Ding|Xinjun Chen|Ray Hilborn|Yong Chen
Vulnerability to impacts of climate change on marine fisheries and food security
Shanghai Ocean University|Shanghai Ocean University|University of Washington|University of Maine
assessment fisheries vulnerability climate change important step enhancing understanding decisionmaking reduce vulnerability study aimed provide analysis country level vulnerability focusing food security implications climatic disturbances marine fisheries comparative magnitude distribution potential food security impacts climatic disturbances marine fisheries assessed 109 countries scoring ranking countries set vulnerability criteria including metrics national exposure sensitivity adaptive capacity highlighting contribution marine fisheries national food nutrition security results showed developing countries africa asia oceania latin america appeared vulnerable key sources vulnerability differed considerably among countries countries vulnerable climateinduced effects marine fisheries twothirds depended domestic marine fisheries main source fish supply developing appropriate adaptation policies management plans reduce impacts changing climate great importance sustain food security highly vulnerable heavy marine fisheriesdependent countries