Climate Change in U.S. South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Fisheries Regions

Mitchell A Roffer1, Debra Lee Hernandez2, John T Lamkin3, Roger Pugliese4, Marcel Reichert5 and Candice Hall1, (1)Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, West Melbourne, FL, United States, (2)Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association. SECOORA, Charleston, SC, United States, (3)NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, SEFSC, Miami Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States, (4)South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, Charleston, SC, (5)South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston, SC, United States
Abstract:
A review of the recent evidence that climate change is affecting marine ecosystems in the U.S. fishery management zones of the South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean regions will be presented. This will include affects on the living marine resources (including fish, invertebrates, marine mammals and turtles), fisheries, habitat and people. Emphasis will be given on the effects that impact managed species and the likely new challenges that they present to fishery managers. The evidence is being derived from the results of the “Climate Variability and Fisheries Workshop: Setting Research Priorities for the Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic, and Caribbean Regions,” October 26-28, 2015 in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. Commonalities and regional differences will be presented in terms of how climate variability is likely to impact distribution, catch, catchability, socioeconomics, and management.
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